haw mosquitoes find us
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Female mosquitoes searching for a meal of blood detect people partly by using a special olfactory receptor to home in on our sweat. ... It's long been known that mosquitoes rely on multiple clues to target humans. First, a mosquito will sense exhaled carbon dioxide from a distance that can be more than 30 feet.
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Mosquitoes searching for a meal of blood use a variety of clues to track down humans, including our body heat and the carbon dioxide in our breath. Now, research shows that a certain olfactory receptor in their antennae also serves as a detector of humans, responding to smelly chemicals in our sweat
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The most common places where mosquitoes hide in your room are under and behind the bed or other furniture, inside your drawers, on the ceiling, or on the walls. Or, you can also just stay up and wait. As I said, mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide, heat, and light.
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