Riffell and his team discovered that female mosquitoes find humans by following a trail of scent cues, such as the chemicals humans exude from their skin and sweat and the carbon dioxide gas humans exhale when they breathe.
Mosquitoes are also drawn to certain colors—they love red and black. But mosquitoes tend to dislike white and green.
If you are very attractive and they bite you and drink your blood, they will then go back to you because they learned this kind of positive association.
The good news is that they can learn to avoid you, so if you're trying to swat them they'll learn that and they'll avoid you a little bit.
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