Are you a mosquito magnet?

[NotAllThere]

My wife and daughter get bitten every day even wearing repellent. I don't wear repellent, but seldom get bitten.

Now we're closing to understanding why. https://phys.org/news/2026-08-people...-unbitten.html

Yes, I have left an open goal...

[xoggoth]

I never seem to get bitten by mosquitos, never see any around me. Probably cos I'm a smelly old git.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Yep, I get loads of insect bites in summer - even more so if I go somewhere hot(ter).

[jamesbrown]

Rarely bitten. Good example was interrailing in first summer of uni with friends in crappy Italian "hotels" full of mossies - I was almost never bitten whereas one or two of my friends, invariably staying in the same room, were always hammered.

[NotAllThere]

Rarely bitten. Good example was interrailing in first summer of uni with friends in crappy Italian "hotels" full of mossies - I was almost never bitten whereas one or two of my friends, invariably staying in the same room, were always hammered.

It's good of them to take the fall for you!

[Protagoras]

I've found that I get bitten much more as I get older, which I associate with some change in skin odour. I used to be very sweaty (sorry for over-sharing) which I think they didn't like.

[jamesbrown]

It's good of them to take the fall for you!

Most agreeable of them.

[sadkingbilly]

no.

[WTFH]

Yes, I get bitten, but not if I use Incognito.

[Paddy]

I have always been bitten badly and the first is usually on my man sausage. However, since my diabetes has been under control, it happens a lot less.