Why Mosquitoes Bite Some People More Than Others
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- Mosquitoes are attracted to me and it's likely due to my genes.
This video is sponsored by 23andMe 23andme.com/veritasium
Huge thanks to Prof. Immo Hansen and team: ve42.co/hansen
References:
Genome Wide Association Study for self-reported mosquito attractiveness:
ve42.co/MossieGWAS
The twin study showing correlated attractiveness is stronger for identical twins:
ve42.co/MossieTwins
Some things we know make mosquitoes more attracted to you:
Exercising, higher metabolism, higher body temperature, more body odor, being pregnant, type O blood, infrequent bathing, lactic acid, ammonia, acetone.
There are a number of folk remedies people believe protect them from mosquito bites like drinking alcohol, eating garlic, or taking vitamin B. These do not appear to provide any benefit in lab studies and in fact drinking alcohol is associated with increased mosquito activity because it causes blood vessels near the surface of the skin to dilate.
And apparently some of your attractiveness to mosquitos is simply genetic. This may be mediated through your immune system, which is what a lot of the genes identified were associated with.
Molecular models are microSnatoms: snatoms.com
Filming in New Mexico by Raquel Nuno
Animations by Jacqui Robertson
The opinions and conclusions drawn in this video are those of Veritasium and not 23andMe.
As a professional mosquito I can confirm everything is true
Lmbo! I don't know why this tickled, but it did.
😂😂😂😂😂😕
Funny af
I thought you were committed to being a brick
🤣
“Don’t bite the hand that feeds you”
Mosquito: *but I...*
Underrated
Mosquitos don't bite.
@@bt70a9 r/woooooosh
Why isn’t this the top comment?
@@albert_the_cool8092 why woooosh lol? He clearly got the joke, he just stated the they don't technically bite so the joke doesn't really work
The ultimate non toxic mosquito repellant is cloves mixed in ordinary cooking oil. Olive or rapeseed oil. Mix the powdered cloves in oil, let stand for a few days, filter the clove powder out, and apply the oil. Tested and proven in Finnish midsummer with a lot of bloodthisrty mosquitoes. One got as close as one inch from my arm when it got the scent and braked and got away.
As someone who lives in Texas, thank you
Does the oil then have a strong scent of cloves to others too?
Poop does the same thing…and it’s natural.
@@georgeglass1748 Not quite what you want to be smearing on yourself though.
I’ve had a mosquito bite me on my ass THRU my jeans ! Unfreakingbelievable
From this video, I learned that you can become an expert in any field you love. I didn't knew that there is a dedicated study for mosquitoes.
It's life and death
I can’t believe that dude sticks his hand in the enclosure of mosquitoes to let them bite him, that’s just another level of insanity in my opinion.
Anything for science 🧬
He’s a mega chad scientist
Tbf, those mosquitoes seem to be clean
Makes me think of Coyote Peterson like I'm coyote Peterson and im about to enter the bite zone of a mosquito XD
I would hate that so much. When I get bit by mosquitos my bite marks get swelled up a lot. I used to see it get bigger with my own eyes. It was really bad when I was a kid, but over time the marks seem to get smaller.
Mosquitos be like: “It’s your scent. It's like a drug to me. It's like you're my own personal brand of heroin.” -Edward
LOL
This needs more likes lmao
i can’t stop laughing
LMAO
Fuckin a! 🤣
Very interesting and correct. My wife grew up in Tanzania and she has never had malaria. Mosquitoes hardly bother her. I lived in Tanzania for 12 years and had malaria at least a dozen times or more. Mosquitoes cannot leave me alone
Years ago, I took my family and my brothers family on a camping trip to Fire Island one summer. Out of 8 of us all but my 2nd son Calvin was eaten alive by mosquitos. Calvin had 2 bite marks at the end of the trip while the rest of us was covered in bite marks. We all ate the same food used the same soaps same gene pool. We still talk about how weird that was when we get together in the summer time.
Whenever you're depressed because nobody seems to like you, remember you're attractive to mosquitoes.
yea they enjoy group sucking me
never been bite by a mosquito :(
L Galicki Band yes..who doesn't love some Malaria
Acoording to SIGMUND FRAUD........ oh wait wrong channel
This is... very depressing.
When I saw that room of mosquitoes I was like: BURN IT DOWN.
Hahahahaha
if somone wld tell me hee sre modquitos na box. i wld show them this comment
Lol, I suggest you stay away from bee removal videos, might go into anaphylactic shock.
You have my lighters
😂😂 torture
My mom and I are completely ignored by mosquitoes and we both have chronic illnesses that mess with our body regulation in various ways, including making us barely sweat at all and have cold skin. We always thought that was why we never get bitten even when my dad and sister are attacked, so the scientist making note to rub your hands together to stimulate warmth/oils on your skin really stood out to me
I am sorry but I am truly curious what illnesses that is (I'm tryna be doctor) 🙃
@@jadenmoore8209 my mom has Hashimoto’s disease / hypothyroidism. I have postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) secondary to hypermobile ehlers danlos syndrome (hEDS)
Unattractive 💀
It’s the opposite for me. I have chronic illnesses and autoimmune diseases and they usually flock to me.
My body/temp regulation is not great partly due to my low body weight; my hands and feet are especially almost always cold and I generally barely sweat at all either despite living in a country with scorching summers---BUT I'm a total mosquito magnet regardless... no one else ever gets bitten by mosquitoes when they're around me T_T
That explains a lot of things. Also, I react so badly to any bug bites. Like within a minute or two, one mosquito bite can grow to be 4-5 cm wide! It's so itchy, hard and warm to the touch as well.
You may be allergic to insect bites my friend,
I had the reaction as you before knowing that it's not normal to others & that I'm allergic, consult an allergy specialist, have a good one
@@vaidehi_n what do you do about it after getting bit? My mosquito bites swell up massively I'm 100% allergic.
Apply Tea Tree essential oils to the bites several times a day. It'll stop the itch awa the infection being caused on your skin.
That's what I do. It helps a lot. Quality matters in the choice of oils too. I use Young Living and even their
Lavender helps my bites heal faster.
@@ethannaka1822 I carry garlic with me when I'm in Mexico and rub the juice into the fresh bites. This prevents itching and swelling. Indigenous Mexicans know this.
@@vaidehi_n They might have a general allergy to insect bites, yeah, but technically, mosquito bite swelling is an allergic reaction too. There is a minority of people in the world immune to mosquito bites (they still get bitten, they just have no reaction).
I get bitten so often. Most of the time, anyone who's with me aren't even aware that there's a mosquito around because I'm the only one who's getting bitten. They won't even believe me sometimes ☹
Same 😭
Same
sometimes i wonder where they were since i didn't see them at all..just the bites appeared magically
So true and ur people who doesn't get those bites they judge u so bad😶
@@valeleeyy
Yes! Like, I just notice something's itchy and then find out there's already a bite and a few more later on. Sometimes I feel stupid for flinching out of nowhere because the mosquito just flew near my ear so I try to look for it in order to kill it and my companion asks what's wrong and I say mosquito but they don't believe me. It sounds dramatic but I do get stressed out about it because it really is getting so darn itchy. 😭
I’ve always hated the fact that mosquitoes bite you not for food, but to MAKE MORE MOSQUITOES
Human DNA can end up in skeeter babies!
Same like please I don’t want to make more of you little shits I don’t like the ones that already exist
I’ve always noted that it’s only the female of the species that sucks vertebrate blood.
@Michah-El watch out. They'll cancel ya.
IK
Great video, I've always wondered why I get attacked by misquotes so much more than most people. I hate them enough I'm almost willing to move someone different for less of them.
I could be around people that say they get attacked often by mosquitoes but when I'm around they only attack me.
ok but can we talk about how that professor literally 'feeds his mosquito himself' for his research and stuff?? that's some next level commitment imagine how he itches everyday;,, i salute this man
Imagine one of the mosquitoes has a mutation or a disease - he's fricked and so is the world if it spreads.
@@iliagluhchev2821 Isn't that always the goal of all isolated scientist laboring to create their own master race that only respond to their individual self, as the supreme leader of a blood sucking disease spreading hoard, for the purpose of World Domination?
maybe he hopes to evolve some day, like spider man.
I mean, he IS US-American after all. ;)
@@keennickolas8575 he’ll become mozzman.
Imagine a barbecue with this guy and he's getting bit by hundreds of mosquitos without even flinching
I have an unhealthy urges to bring my 10.000 watt mosquito racquet to this lab
I have an urge to bomb the lab instead.
10,000 watt? you can power 10 house with that. you meant 10,000 volts.
It's 10.000 not 10,000
@@minalkishor23 thats a decimal. that number would equal 10 not 10,000. like 10.1.
Lol I had the same thought at first
Mosquitoes bite me more than anyone I know... and I am pretty allergic to them. Even wearing OFF, they circle around me in a big cloud while ignoring my family. When they bite me, I get huge welts that take a couple of weeks to heal.. Usually I scratch so much I end up with scabs all over the place. :(
Try a diluted ammonia solution in a roll-on tube. Only diluted ammonia works for me. Apply this immediately after you get bitten and the itch/swelling will be gone in about half hour. Scratching just prolongs the bite for weeks.
@@rogersbabygrandpiano6221 I dunno if you watched the video friend, but at 9:00 Derek mentions that ammonia is suspected of actually _increasing_ attractiveness to mosquitoes.
damn you must be ULTRA attractive cause that's scary! I have to use a device that emits a scent to get them to leave me alone cause wearing OFF all the time sucks lol
@@Nyxeline any recommendations on the device? It is summer again - so now I begin the never-ending OFF wearing. :(
@@betazep Thermacell Mosquito Repellent Device is the one I use. I use a blue one that has a 15 ft radius that I put on a table outside. It's amaaaaazing. It even worked when it was windy.
I love how you scientifically review and nuanciate study results. So many content creators just jump on any weird result they see and act as if it's the uncontested truth.
1:13 "I'm getting about 25 bites now"
Is this man a hero or a psychopath?
He's spawning a mosquito army for the Armageddon
Just plain insane.
He has bad internet
why can't you be both?
Masochist.
I hate mosquitoes with a passion. I can't go outside for 5 minutes without being bitten. As an example, my dad and sister were outside for an hour working on gutter cleaning. Neither were bitten. I stepped outside for 5 minutes (not exaggerating)... 4 or 5 bites. Example two, my brother and I were outside standing in place next to each other for 15 minutes. In that time, I was bitten exactly 9 times and my brother only once.
This is me.
Also me 🙋🏽♀️ just last night hubby and I were outside for 5 mins, no bites for him and 6 for me 😢
I feel u so much. For me its not only mosquitoes, its any kind of bugs u can find that sucks blood or bites you urgg i have never had clear skins in my legs and arms due to it.
"..with a passion" took me tf out lmaoooo that's real hate right there
❤️Jesus lived the life we couldn't live and died the death we deserve. Repent of your sins and trust in Him💜
Thanks for putting the results in the description 👍
wow the way you easily agree to get bitten by mosquitoes while i fight for my life to free myself from getting bitten because for some reason they always seem to want to bite me
Girl : You are not attractive
Me : I am
Girl : To whom?
Me : It's complicated
thats a good one
It's not complicated it's mosquitoes
@@EpicBunty u missed the jokes
@@Stephen-jj8nc can you please make me understand the joke?
@@krishbishwanathiitdelhi3762 it’s a joke format.
this guy literally sticks his arm in there to feed them mosquitoes just so he can study the dam things..
this is the highest level of dedication ive ever seen
IKR 💀
He’s insane
I imagine that were it not for truly dedicated scientists, inventors, & researchers most of humanity might still be using horses, camels, & donkeys for basic transportation. I greatly admire these types of folks. Also, we probably wouldn't have (Vaccines,) yet. 👍😎
@@patrickjenkins6383 What's so bad in using them for transportation? Modern transportation just add worse dumps than some horses can produce.
@@KhoiruunisaRF 👍😅
This makes sense to me now, a lot of people i know have to use bug repellent or avoid going some places bc they get bit too much, meanwhile i never really had a problem with mosquitoes and only recounted like 3 or 4 times in my life ive ever actually been bitten.
Well, this is a video i certainly enjoyed! Keep up your content, i liked this one!
“They are the most dangerous animal in the world.” He says this as he continues to feed and breed them himself.
"The only good bug is a dead bug." Starship Troopers
Yeah, I mean... but he knows none of the ones in the lab have malaria.
It's always good to learn more about threats such as illnesses, animals, natural catastrophes etc. Bc if you always try to avoid them, you'll never know how to fight them or at least how to protect humans against them.
@@shinylilfish he is still breeding useless human killing creatures tho that’s the irony 😂 I don’t think the implication is that the scientist is in any danger
humans are dangerous but we still breeding 🤷🏽♀️
I used to be attracted to mosquitoes, But I switched over to being attracted to humans a few months ago, and so far it's been a bit rough.
lol this made me laugh more than it should
❤️Jesus lived the life we couldn't live and died the death we deserve. Repent of your sins and trust in Him💜.
@@daughteroftheking994 Yes... Amen!
Do they bite? 🤨
@@TheOneWhodDraw just might
So good to know, I have suffered for more than 60 years until I moved to a dry climate I have been fodder for so many mosquitoes full of white scars
This past Father’s Day I was with my daughters family. All three of them were getting bit and had major reactions and swelling. I on the other hand didn’t have a single mosquito buzz my area or bite me. I didn’t even know mosquitoes were out, while they were swatting and shooing them away. Call me blessed.
The thing that really gets me about mosquitos is when you're trying to sleep and they are flying around your ears making that buzzing sound. Anyone else really despise this sound? It's worse than nails on a chalkboard for me as it is usually accompanied by a bite to add insult to injury. You're always just waiting, mortified and annoyed by the occasional buzzzzzzzzzzzz.
😂😂😂💔💔The only thing I truly hate chileee
This thing is just the bane of my existence.
You would be trying to sleep peacefully in a quiet and silent room ...and then "BZZZZ" right in your ear like if something was trying to make a prank on you or just annoy you because they can 😑
I’d just start hunting them till they started hiding from me
I heard there is an African saying that says: if you think you are too small to make a difference you haven't spent a night with a mosquito
Yes i and cover my ears then after some time i remove my hand from one ear to check if it left
My main problem with mosquitos isn't that they bite me more than everyone else, it's the fact that they constantly go “Kamikaze” straight in my eyes and ears. Absolutely unbearable!
For me I always observed the very strange pattern of them kamikazeing into my nostrils and me spasming around like a monkey on crack because of it :'D
I just about a week ago sent a voice note to my sister telling her about how upset I am that it didn't just happen like once or twice, but that it happened more often than that.
Seeing how Derek explains that they're attracted to the carbon dioxide it kind of makes sense that they'd fly towards the source of it lol
Still annoying af though
@@JimmyHey problem is, in my case, they attack my eyes and ears, not my mouth nor nostrils... As last as I know, I don't breath with my ears XD
I suspect it might be about shadows and sweat, because it's not just mosquitoes that crash on me like remains of a space shuttle crash on earth. They seek shaded areas to cool down and sweat to hydrate, but both of these don't explain everything. I suppose we're the *un*lucky ones.
@@FredGlt Yea, I wonder why they do that
It's gotta be really annoying as well; minding your own business and suddenly something flies right into your eyes out of nowhere :'D
And they don't only harass you, they drown in your food and your drinks too!! There was literally one in my soup today😷
@@andrea-sc2rx yeah that sucks too. It's almost if they voluntarily suicide in soups and drinks *knowing* that’s gonna make us mad.
Super cool breakdown.
Great Video! We all learned something today.
There are 27 mosquitoes in Your vicinity, that want to hook up.
( 1 bite stand )
Mosquito Rita just like your photo🤣🤣💀. You like tf 😱🤔✌
Yeah I get all the female mosquitos
bite me
i hv a flamethrower
I was the 999th like!
*"Man, you are attractive!"*
"Really?!"
"I mean, sorry- I. You are a strong attractant to mosquitoes."
His lady displays the classic behavior of someone that really isn't that fascinated by what he's talking about but likes him enough to feign great interest, LOL. Believe me, I've experienced it plenty of times.
Heart been broke so many times, I-I.. Don't know what to belie-eeve
sus af
@@Milan_M95 nah bro, all my homies beautiful af
I want to know why I used to be LOVED by mosquitos until I went on Atkins, then, for the greater part of 12 years, mosquitos avoid me like, well, not the plague....
I heard the story about blood sugar. I'm more interested if that has anything to do with blood types. I rarely get bitten, but I also dress head-to-toe in the wilderness because I hate getting bitten. If there was a specific gene instead associated with lower bite rates it would be most interesting if it can be somehow shared with more bite-prone people to override theirs. Then again, mosquitoes would probably just adapt to that, little death machines that they are.
To the best of my knowledge the answer is no , I’m not a diabetic, and sugars in the normal range but fast regularly , I get bitten less when fasting - perhaps some foods are the cause ?
From a young age I’ve always been scared of staying out at night due to the amount of mosquitoes I attract, now I finally get to find out why😅🎉
The only harem I could ever hope to achieve
Lol
Lol
I Reincarnated in a World of Bug People and Made a Harem of Mosquito Girls
It's not like I want your blood or anything don't get the wrong idea baka
@@E1666000 Tsundere mosquito 🦟😂😂😂😂😂, this would be hilarious 👁👄👁
Note to self: Don't watch mosquito videos while eating Cup Noodles. That larvae shot hit different.
I was also eating noodles… lost my appetite pretty quick
Lololol
lol im literally doing that now...
Weakling. The superior sapien would be unaffected in cup noodle appetite 💪😤
thankfully my noodles were green so it wasn’t as gross😂
Amazing! My husband is extremely attractive to mosquitos and, to my knowledge, I have been bitten only a handful of times in my 60-plus years of life. We have frequently joked that he is much sweeter than me. Very satisfying to understand the scientific explanation.
I always thought mosquito’s were more attracted to some people than others because I tended to have less bites than others or often wouldn’t get bites when many others did or when many mosquitos were around. Not that I never get big, but it seems to be a lot less frequently than others.
Literally spent 10 minutes trying to kill a mosquito, then gave up and got recommended this video lol
Lmfaoo same
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I recommend using deodorant and a lighter
I'm that guy in my family.
At first I was annoyed but eventually I realized it was a noble quest. So I let myself be the bait, let them come near, and zap those suckers with my mosquito racket.
We are both brother in arms againt these blood sucking mongrel.
I like to chase down those flies and slap them with bare hands. Especially the fat ones. Such times of high adrenaline and satisfaction hormone...
I do this too 😂😂
Even I thought no one loves me, at least mosquitos love me
I’ll wear long sleeve and pants and leave a little part of my skin exposed to bait them then I kill them when they take the bait
I have thalassemia trait, and i barely ever get bitten by mosquitoes. And when i do, i dont get bitten again for a long time. I remember going to Venezuela, and we camped outside, we were sleeping in a tent, but my dad (who doesn’t have thalassemia trait) decided he wanted to sleep outside in the hammock. Next morning you couldn’t even see his arm, he was COVERED in bites.
Diet is also a huge influence. This was demonstrated decades ago. In particular, taking Thiamine increases your immunity to mosquitoes and eating candy and processed foods makes you more vulnerable.
Huh. Funny. I just started taking a natural B1 supplement (allithiamine) for another reason but I noticed I could walk outside for a few minutes wearing shorts without being chased by mosquitoes & it’s been raining like crazy! If there is a mosquito in the area I’m the person targeted.
I hate mosquitos, but that blue species is rather exotic!
Her sucking job
Adil Studios wtf they said that only the females bite
looks dangerous to me though idk
@@itsoktobedummythicc8996 yeah right imagine if the male too humanity probably too busy with musquito to fight each other 🤣
@@itsoktobedummythicc8996 Who knows, maybe male mosquitos also suck, just like what some human males also do.
I'm already imagining a true mosquito-pocalypse where only the humans with the right genes are able to avoid being bitten to death.
The hollow knight pfp is appropriate lol
I am screwed then
Check the news for the new genetically modified mosquitoes released
That's the plot of one of my childhood comics. It was so silly I killed the mosquito clouds with a tactical nuke.
Well then apparently I'll be fine.... or so i think, havent been biten in a long time.
When I was younger I learned that when they design deodorants and perfumes, they test them on mosquitos, as mosquitos are attracted to pheromones. I'm just curious if this variable was considered in these studies? Maybe this genetic sequence has something to do with our bodies' pheromones? Or simply the soaps and perfumes we use?
If any researchers are out there, I have NEVER met another person who gets bit by mosquitoes more than me. I just can't go outside after 5pm. I'll go out to clean the pool skimmers and get 5 bites while my husband will go for a long walk and get nothing. My brother-in-law was always the one who was most bit in his family (my husbands), but he loves to joke that he likes when I'm around because I take the bites instead of him.
And my bites turn into little swollen blobs that itch like crazy for days.
I would LOVE to be tested.
If it's important, I live in North Alabama, USA.
If this professor was a Marvel or DC character, He would eventually turn into a supervillain called Mosquito Man with mosquito like abilities. Lol
They wouldnt do it. Its too evil!
only problem: American audiences wouldn't understand why he has a German accent and not a Spanish one.
Who knows? Maybe he's the man behind the mothman sightings
@@tobiassauer2971 Hydra lol😂😂😂😂
@@andrewdacosta3960 DC would do it, no hesitation. Marvel would probably make it a in a jokish way.
My dad would say because I haven't taken a shower. Now I can tell him it's his fault 🤣
Dad you made me attractive to mosquitos. You ruin my life!
I think smokers repel these bugs
@@recoveringsoul755 nicotine is an insecticide so that makes sense
@@wildsideofthings7733 realy? gross
@@recoveringsoul755 yes
Evaluation is amazing
I always heard it was more likely to attract them if you ate bananas or drank alcohol since they smell it in your breath. Also, if you are Type O blood for some reason (can't remember if rh factor is a factor as well). Supposedly, the smell of garlic and citrus tends to keep them away.
Drinking alcohol definitely causes me to get bit by the pesky things. I'll try eating more garlic, see if that repels them
everyone always told me I get bit more because I like wine, but now I'm pregnant, not drinking at all and they're still coming for me. I am type O though so maybe that's it!
@@amyarias242he said in the video that mosquito’s like pregnant women
@@taraelizabethdensley9475try the old style listerene mouthwash- the brown one that nearly dissolves your gums .rub it on your feet and ankles as the old listerene contains oil of thyme
I’m disappointed that Mosquito-Man was not half-mosquito
Same :(
@@IAmSoCool. wow that's a cool name
@@AHHHHHHHH21 thanks man
😂😂😂😂
Well he lets them bite hime because he hopes one will be radioactive one day
O god, that mosquito noise when you're wearing earphones !!!
:( ikr
*r a w f e a r*
*R A W S L A P P I N G*
I’m so glad I saw this comment before I watched the video. Now I’m mentally prepared. Thanks !
Reverse asmr
She looks at him with so much love. Its cute.
Yes, I have the universal blood type that gravitates mosquitoes. Although I hadn't been annoyed by any when I first moved here while sitting out at night, here lately I had. So now I keep an insect lamp and several hat/face nets on hand if sitting out, especially at night.
I don’t need any test. Mosquitoes absolutely LOVE me !!! They actually ring my doorbell & ask for me.
Lol
😂😂😂😂😂
Have they asked for your number yet?? Otherwise man uk it could be a serious thing 😜
Gotta get that doorbell cam, then... 😂
bring along their own wine bottles and politely asking for your permission to have a little personal time
I have an immense urge to break into this facility and do a LOT of squashing.
ah yes, an immense urge to sabotage years of research.
@@diretimes4390Eyeroll. You've been muted.
@@andrewphillips4381 I mean, he's right...
you have me in your army
Andrew Phillips Rip research xd
worst experience was when i visited the Baltic Sea once in august and after just one evening i looked like i was suffering the final stages of the bubonic plague. it was so awful i didn't sleep for three days straight because of the itch and pain.
as we were sitting outside near the beach i was swarmed by those pesty mosquitoes- i had on a pair of jeans and long sleeves because i knew it and i witnessed the suckers stinging through the jeans and sleeves ...and those weren't gigantic but small malicious black nightmares. this year i was already stung 11 times when i visited a friends garden at noon! when i think of this menace i'm so happy living downtown otherwise summertime would be insufferable every year 😢
As estonian i disagree
I have read for years that by gentically modifying certain strains of mosquitos they could be rendered extinct. Sounds like a good idea whose time has come. Anybody know if that has been done? And if so, why are we still tormented by those buzzing vampires?
It's because we aren't sure yet that the extinction won't cause any unknown effect like will any animal eating mosquito be affected? To what extend? How will that affect other animals connected to it? Will we be able to handle this? Is it worth it? Also currently there are plans to eliminate mosquitos that carry diseases not the irritating little shits in most north america and europe.
It they make accidental super steroid ed ones
@@CureSmilefulbill gates was doing something with that a few years ago - knowing him he’s made them more potent 😮
Always found it curious that I never got bit by mosquitoes while living in South East Asia. Nearly everyone of my friends had dengue fever at some point, I managed to avoid it. I wasn’t sure if I just didn’t have an allergic reaction to the bites, so I couldn’t see them.
well, it shows the fact that you are not attractive (for the mosquitoes)
Dengue is not very far away from the US. Very common in Central America, Honduras, Nicaragua etc. Luckily, those little fuckers don't manage to make it to the US, unlike other pests.
Real Engineering no man it’s called you are lucky. I have o type blood and some other bs that mosquitoes love in my hot dam blood . It’s a curse
You must be talking about the ILLEGAL immigrants. :-)
I got bites many times... And yes I'm from South East Asia so yeah I'm victim of mosquito.
does anyone else have a "spidey sense" for mosquitoes? Like feeling their presence in the air as an itchy tingle. I feel like a crazy person but its real lol
Your not alone, me too
same
Well- for me the itchy tingley feeling comes a little late because the mosquitoes had already bitten me and I’m allergic.
Not alone
Sammmmmeee!!!!
When I visited Cuba some years ago, my sister and my friend returned home with about half a dozen of mosquito bites each. I had more than 40 bites on me, even after spraying myself with that horrible sticky and smelly insect repellant for a whole week! They even bit me under the fabric. 😫
When I was a kid I was roommates with one of my cousins and he would get bitten all the time. He would wake up with multiple bites. I would have none or like just one. I think what saved me is having him in the room
I don't need to take a "test" to show how much of a "mosquito magnet" I am. I see it all Summer long, EVERYDAY, EVERY SUMMER!
fr bruh mosquitos be runnin trains on me, pause
Same i went outside for 10 minutes, constantly moved around, wasn’t sweaty. Came home with 5-10 bites
Fr
Same, my legs look like I had chickenpox ☹️, I hate wearing repellent but I have to...
I've always been the person mosquitoes prefer. If I'm in the backyard with my friends, the mosquitoes will ignore my friends and come to me. It's agony
Yea me too. I agree it's agony. Sometimes they are particularly aggressive or hungry I guess, and bite me even when I have repellent on. 😩
Atleast you have someone who loves you ....😔
i’ve had like 50 ish bites at once they were mostly on the back of my legs and when i had that many i felt sick tbh it sucks
Same
Are you a red head?
I am... Mosquitos love me..
Very interesting.Thank You
Wow! This ia very informative
Btw those shots of mosquitoes biting are on my arm (except for the exotic species)
brave man
Veritasium finally a video
Love your work !
Sacrifice in the name of science!
Thanks for being a sacrificial chicken (one of the traditional blood meal donors in mosquito work).
*Accidently knocks over mosquito chambers*
Me: Light speed
Lol
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lol
Me: Stargate.
me: Ohh hell naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw
When I was in Girl Scouts, we went to camp and I was the mosquito magnet. I had so many bites I actually got sick. My sister and her friends counted the ones on my face …just my face and I had them all over…and I had 106 just on my face. I was so happy having moved from NY to Utah so I got no bites ..maybe two in 24 years there. My husband none! In Colorado ..I’ve been bitten a few times but my husband zero times!
Omg I would've been perfect for this research, I'm an identical twin, I live in New mexico and mosquitos loove me 🦟 ❤️
What part of New mexico do you live? I live in the desert near Las cruces. They don't like the desart. I haven't been bit since I moved here.
God, scientists are awesome. It hurt every part of my body to see him stick his hand in that box
For the sake of science
I love mosquitoes, I meant they are very supportive when I do sport, like running, they encourage me to run faster when I slow down.
🤣
That's an interesting way to describe this motivation
BRAVO, nice one.
Lmao 🤣 🤣
I'd like to see these tests done again today. I remember watching this way back when and I've always been the one to never get bit and stuff. Here in the last year or so I've noticed that not be the case anymore, and I'm curious to how much the mosquitos have adapted in recent years, because not just that but now swatting to kill one feels like trying to swat a fly 😅. Like these things have definitely gotten faster and changing a lot it seems.
imagine you get super powers, but the power is to be the most attractive man alive to mosquitoes.
I found after living on a boat and at the mercy of mosquitoes, what you eat makes a huge difference. I completely stopped eating bananas because I found that within an hour of eating a banana the mosquitoes would be all around me. This effect would last a couple of days, slowly waning.
Back in the day when I went backpacking, mosquitos where a problem and here is how I dealt with it including commercial chemicals that can be applied to clothing and skin.
Mosquitos are most active in the morning and at dawn.
So keeping this in mind for the evening when we would all be eating dinner and later just sitting around talking before we started our campfire for the evening.
I would not eat anything sweet for dinner because it makes your skin and breath more attractive to mosquitos.
No fruit, no candy, no hot chocolate with marshmallows, no honey, no granola bar...
I would chop up some raw garlic and swallow it down with a swig of water.
That in combination with commercial chemicals applied properly, I rarely ever got bitten whilst the guys and gals around me did.
Eat a lot of garlic then go to the woods. Insects don’t like you
Lmao you living in donkey Kong 64 huh?
Yes. Garlic is not to their taste and if you eat a lot of it not only your breath but your blood will smell like it.
But be careful. Garlic is an antibiotic.
@@im1who84u safe from vampires too
When I say i’m allergic to mosquitoes some ppl say “yeah duh everyone is”. But like they don’t understand. I had two mosquito bites on my thigh when I was like 7 and it swelled up so big i couldn’t walk 💀 Same things happend on my foot, and my arm has once doubled in size from 3 😃 idk why but that’s why I freak out when ever I see one :p
My brother had the same problem, when he was younger, he would swell up so bad, once his ear swolled up so bad, my mother had to clarify, he wasn't born like that, he was just allergic to mosquito bites 🤣 he's 15 now, and he's no longer allergic, but I always found it interesting as to why he was , and for me mosquito bites would last for 2 hours minimum
Mosquitos rarely bite me and I never even get a welp or any kind of mark from it lol
Don't go to Philippines then.
I was wearing leggings one day and I went hang out with my friend in his back yard , I was the only one getting bit and the only exposure I had was my ankles , when I tell you they swelled up sooo bad they were kankles by the time I left his house . It was hard to walk , I had to put ice packs for the swelling to go away .
OMG SAME 😭i finally found someone else who's actually allergic 😭
Thanks for the sharing this is very true
I used to get bit by mosquitoes like normal when I was a small child, but nowadays, I can't remember the last time I was bit by one
Mosquito man was low key jealous that the other was more attractive 😂😂😂😂
Just what I was thinking!
There was one point where I havnt been bit for like a year my theory is it changes over your age. I'm incredibly unattractive to mosquitoes 2.5 years of not being bit or so
@@luccianoblock5127 It also has to do with chemicals your body produce.
@@luccianoblock5127 Actually, I fully agree! It may not be the main factor, but it definitely plays a part. I have no science to back this up, but I’m using personal experiences. When I was 10 and younger, I was constantly getting bit my mosquitos (like 4-5 bites every 2 hrs I was outside), but now that I’m older I rarely ever get bit. I’m sure if I did some research, I could find some reason of why that is.
After I had cancer treatment, I haven’t got bit by a mosquito. I think it’s the health of a person/chemicals
I just wanna burn that whole room down. lol
Lol that's dumb af
Mosquitos cant die from fire
Mosquitoes never die, they re-incarnate into blood-sucking vampire bats.
Mr too lol
I wish I had some good ass bug spray
I swear I’ve noticed that women usually get bit more than men. I always get bitten but the guys around me don’t (and I’ve noticed a similar trend with my other female friends) and it’s made me wonder if maybe our blood tastes different to them due to hormones (especially during certain parts of our cycle). Idk it’s just a theory, but it seems to ring true to me.
Coz the mosquitoes which bite are FEMALE 😂 as said in this video 😂
I get bit less than most male people around me (with the exception being my dad, I probably got some good anti mosquito genes from there!). So it's not a catch all. Hormones can change the odours you give off I believe, however a lot of the reasons they listed (high metabolism, sweat etc) are actually generally higher in males. So females being more attractive to mosquitos is kinda counter intuitive to that.
and lack of body hair
a gang of mosquitoes once bit me 15 times on one hand, and 12 on the other in vietnam. they were swollen for weeks after
Scientist- "Definitely the most dangerous creature on the planet"
Also scientist- "Yes I feed them with my own arm"
Well, the ones in his lab pose no danger.
some men just want to feel their arm burn
Fair would have been to say they are the most annoying animals on the planet - besides humans.
It just so happens they can carry malaria, like we can carry covid 19.
@@privileguan9127 they carry a lot more than Malaria. They carry lots of diseases. They are by far the most dangerous animal on the planet to the human population.
These individuals in his lab are clean. No worry of diseases
Just watching this made me so itchy...
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Me too
Can you pls do an experiment if sounds have effects to mosquitos? Will it repel them or attract them? So that we can really know what is going on? Thank you.
This is a great video btw. :)
The people in my family with Type O blood get bitten much more often than the rest of us. I figured that mosquitos bite frequency can bea low tech means of determining who has Type O blood.
My mom told me that the amount of sugar in your blood was what attracted mosquitoes. I got bit like crazy by them as a kid, especially, and the reactions I had were intense. Huge hard red swellings. One on my shin I scratched so much with the heel of my shoe during PE that at some point it became grossly infected. I saved it for a day when I really really wanted to stay home from school....and when I showed it to my mom and my big brother, they were appalled. It had turned green at the center, where the scab started originally, and dark red all around it. I decided it was ripe and crossed my fingers and hoped it would work so I could stay home and watch some classic musicals I was anxious to watch (back then you had to plan these things after looking through the TV guides to see what movies you were dying to see would be televised). Well, I f*cked up and had to go to emergency. But I got a whole week off from school.
Hahaha the idea of saving your medical emergency for a rainy day is just immaculate kid logic
Add b-1 or benfotiamine to yr diet.sprinkle brewers yeast on skin around pants bottoms, collar of shirt, rinse hair with vinegar, dogs coat, kids hair for lice.
My mom used to tell me the same thing, she told me I have bitter blood because I almost never get bitten
I call it appointment t.v. because if you missed the appointment you didn't get to see the show. Lol
Same here, except not the story though, my mom also told me it could be from your blood type but I’m not sure
I don't mind if mosquitoes bite. At least someone is attracted to me.
something* They're not people. lol
Exactly what I wanted to say
i don't mind them feeding off my blood, i DO mind their bites being itchy AF
I've been saying this for years., though sometimes I word it that 'mosquitoes are the only things that want to suck me.'
Lik if u cri evrytim
Interesting! Did they say what really works to counter act the attraction?
I have von Willebrand's disease which is a clotting disorder (poor clotting) and I'm going to be tested for a mitochondrial disorder. I'm super attractive to mosquitoes.
I'm in awe actually at how dedicated this guy is to his studies of them just sticking his arm in the box to feed them. I've always had horrible reactions to mosquito bites they swell up to like 4 times bigger than most peoples and can sometimes be so bad (especially on an area likemy hand or fingers) that the appendage is practically unusable, I'm pretty sure if I stuck my arm in one of those boxes I would have to amputate it
yeah lol
@@hycoperosity5843 I would assume demographic research and product development mostly, but yeah it’s still kinda scary that they can kinda just hide the fact that you’re essentially selling your genome in exchange for a service
Probably you didn't get bitten enough. I'm basically a decoy for mosquito... When among a group of people, all mosquitoes will usually get to me. The first few years, each bite swell enormously! If I got bitten in the arm, I the swelling was like another bycept appearing! After several years of getting bitten, no only a small red bump appears.
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Same thing happens to me. What I found out is that any irritation to the mosquito bite of any kind causes it to swell much more. Even if something just barely brushes up on the bite. Best thing to do is just ignore it completely and pray it goes away quick, the itchiness is the worst part for sure
"our attractiveness to mosquitoes is at least partially genetic."
me walking in with zero bites after being outside for 3 hours: :)
my siblings walking in practically bloodless after being outside for 8 minutes: >:(
Hey, don't be so discouraged. Just think you're adopted :)
@@lostpencil2147 my family needed a pretty person, so they adopted me as a child :) /j
@@cadenc1a is the sibling a brother? coz he could have something on the Y chromosome if so
@@vkdeen7570 i have both a brother and sister, they both get drained alive, and it's funny i tell you
@@cadenc1a lmao sounds like u got the good genes (or u actually were adopted lol)
sadly I get eaten by every insect under the sun 😞 just too damn attractive for my own good pmsl
I almost never got bitten as far as I remember, it's fascinating & scary at the same time .
Looks so pain full when he showed us when they fed the mosquitoes but that is one so the most important thing in this video😂