Hi love the videos. I've been watching Alec Steele a blacksmith who works with Damascus alot and he explains that he used ferric chloride to etch the damascus and because there are different ammounts of carbon in the layers one turns dark and the other one not so much, and I've been looking around google and RUclips for a video explaining this and I haven't been able to find one maybe you could be the first to make a video on it
I've found that directing a fan at my face while I slept made it way more difficult for mosquitos to locate me even if they were in the room. (And even if they do, good luck fighting that air current, you little spawns of satan.)
@@Ekaekto ...With my eyes closed? The wind from the fan doesn't really bother me. If anything, it keeps me cold enough to also use a blanket, most of the time.
Itching is an irritating sensation that makes you want to scratch your skin. Sometimes it can feel like pain, but it is different. Often, you feel itchy in one area in your body, but sometimes you may feel itching all over. Along with the itching, you may also have a rash or hive . You mean SCRATCHING
randy garcia if you REALLY wanna get into the nitty gritty of it, scratching oneself makes the bug bites worse, making the itching sensation worse; as a rough sweater can itch you, I itch myself by scratching.
I understand. Mosquitos love me. Try the anti-itch cream or gel w benedryl. Helped for me. Also, mosquitos don’t like lavender or ecalyptus. I’ve been using Dr Teals lavender body cream and no bites even without DEET. Good luck to you.
My husband used to claim that the best natural way to repel mosquitoes was to alter the chemistry in your sweat, including the regular use of the sauna (sweat out the pheremones that attract mosquitoes) smoking, and eating ridiculous amounts of garlic. He seldom got bitten, but sometimes his breath repelled me too!
Mosquitos are attracted to the scent of refined sugar in your system. I stopped eating all refined sugar products and all of the mosquitos vanished. I get no more mosquitos.
Um would I rather get 100 mpsquito bites or sit in a sauna for half an hour? Uh, mosquitoes. At least I can slap mosquitoes, I can't slap the claustrophobia away.
@@andyhaochizhang normally I would agree with you but I’ve literally put this to the test in high mosquito dense places and they have no interest in me, same with ticks. Everyone around me will be getting bit and I don’t even have one on my skin let alone a bite. I think it’s an awesome super power but it is a little weird.
@@crystalfahlsing4296 I am a reasonably accurate barometer of mosquito density. If they are there they will come out just to bite me. overall I'm rather pale, have the metabolism of a particularly athletic slug, and don't sweat often or heavily, though I do eat more refined sugars than I aught. I find having a fan on helps, but I still wake up with a handful of new bites every god damned time. Fortunately ticks don't share the same infatuation. I've gotten 2 in my life and both were tremendously awkward experiences.
*5 Things That Make You a Mosquito Magnet* Me: "Oh, good, once I watch this video I'll be able to keep mosquitoes away by avoiding these things" *#1. Breathing* Me: "Heck"
When I was a kid (1960's) my father would catch mosquitos in a jar while on vacation (us on vacation, not the mosquitos) and then breathe into the jar quickly then close it up again, and we'd watch the mosquitos get all excited and start shaking. He (i.e. Dad) explained that it was the CO2. So this has been known for decades.
@@aprilapril2 I don't recall, I was little. But there were so many it was pretty easy to just have an open jar and catch them. And I think we used "OFF" as a repellent. But we DID get bit.
The worst when there is a mosquito in your room and your trying to sleep but the blood sucking bastard keeps buzzing your ear and your flailing helplessly just trying to kill the bugger in the dark so you can go to sleep
Use earplugs and cover everything but your mouth and nose. If you wanna kill it, just turn on the lights, kill it, turn off the lights, and go back to sleep.
Few hours ago I was painting drum brakes on car. I was 1. deep breathing, 2. sweating, 3. drinking beer, 4. wearing gray shirt. So thanks SciShow for uploading too late, this all could have been prevented.
I love how this show is for people of all areas of scientific aptitude and delivers information in such a clear and efficient manner. This is how things ought to be taught
Scishow- “Mosquitoes are more attracted to darker clothes” Me-*looks into closet* “Guess I gotta toss all my clothes so I can survive a mosquito breakout”
When I had anemia (low iron in blood) mosquitos would avoid me like the plague, so how attracted mosquitos have been to me has always correlated with the amount of iron in my diet/body. When I started eating better and fixed my anemia I unfortunately became their target, which I figured would happen 😂
Lavender, Rosemary, mint, and other types of plants help deter mosquitos. I have a lavender and a mint right beside my backyard door and they go away. They do not like the fragrance of flowers
When I was going through chemo, I definitely noticed that I got less bug bites when I went to camp over the years I didn't. I never really got a ton of bites, but I didn't get a single bite that one summer. I assume they could smell the change in my blood and realized I was toxic.
It has been 12 yrs since my chemo and they still avoid biting me. They maybe be following me but seldom bite me. So that is the upside of the hell chemo put us through. I Hope you are doing well..
@@dindranew.6808 I didn't know who that was; some of my shirts are 20 years old (awaiting a new splatter of paint). Yep: McQueen could put a goth beekeeper's gown down the runway and it would fit right in. Call it "Gothic Bride", and it would sell for $5,250. I'm in the wrong business.
I don't think that would work anyway though. Female mosquitoes use blood in egg production. Sugar water is just for metabolism- replacing nectar from flowers. Sugar water can't replace the blood needed for egg production.
@@catlover2223 Male mosquitoes actually do only consume nectar. They're pollinators. That just gives weight to the fact that the females would still need to consume blood.
Mosquitos absolutely love me. And, for some reason, when they bite the back of my legs, the bites turn into baseball sized welts that itch and hurt like crazy
Yes, me too. I have scars all over my legs and arms from mosquito bites that swell up!! They love me. I'm diabetic and always wondered if the liked my blood because it has more sugar in it.
@@lisaemmerich138 Mosquitoes tore me up when I used to drink beer, I would swell up for a couple of days. I quit drinking 8 years ago, they don't bother me anymore. I'm pretty sure it's the sugar.
@Peace Ecaep Wisconsin mosquitoes are evil. I have been a skeeter feeding station my entire life. Usually I don't feel their bites, but the Wisconsin breed hurts when it bites! Almost a sting, plus the resulting welt is 3-4 times larger than what I normally get.
I am and have always been a mosquito magnet. I am glad you mentioned sugar. I don't have the science to back up sugar as a draw but I think it's something to do with it. I think a study with diabetics and non diabetic people would be interesting. I think that something in the breath attracting mosquitos is interesting also. But when I lived in Georgia, ahot and humid climate, I noticed that if I could keep from getting bitten that I wasn't that attractive to mosquitos. But once I was bitten I would be swarmed from then on. This made me wonder if the mosquitos excreted something into my blood while they were sucking my blood. Just seemed like they planted and waved a flag, "over here guys!" Just a thought
Fun fact. I'm watching this from Manaus, I'm the middle of the Amazon in the middle of the night while being feasted upon by those suckers. I've had Malaria twice and as a living mosquito magnet can confirm the information
@@altgoncalves1472 A woman I know well in the Philippines has just recovered from Corona Virus after being treated with IVERMECTIN. Others in the same family were treated for Dengue Fever with it and they are doing well.
And l thank them..not just for this video but for all the interchange and info exchange among those of us who suffer to find some comfort in numbers and possible solutions!! Plus..those who don't have Whatever Combo of alerts to the mosquitoes, will never understand and/or be sympathetic to us!! They just don't get it and l am so happy they don't!
Well, I don't know of any studies to support or refute this, but I've found that if I use just the tiniest amount of plain lavender essential oil, suddenly there's a three-foot Cone of No Mosquitoes around me. And I like the smell, which is nice for me.
Lol they got this wrong. It doesn't warm or cool you down. It dilates the blood vessels so your skin feels more of the natural heat you make. This can lead to increased sweating which probably is why it attracts more mosquitos.
I've finally found a person the mosquitoes like more than they like me. I think I'm going to invite her to all my travels and garden parties! Alternatively, a bait-person to rent would be good. Just someone who's a mosquito magnet and would like to get paid to stand in the corner when we're having a bbq.
As good as that might seem to do ifeel like doing that would be a mistake as mosquitoes are a food source for animals and making them extinct could indirecly ruin other animal populations as well.
@@prettykitty610 that's how it always happens. Mosquitoes are imporant, they are pollinators, they keep other species in check and their larvae are an important food source for other arthropods and fish
Its doable. The method would likely be replacing existing mosquitoes with genetically altered mosquitos such that they continue to exist in the ecosystem but no longer bother humans. Or just replace the bitey species with a non bitey one. There is an effort in north America to take out the invasive mosquito species aedes aegypti, but its not getting very far since wiping them out is best done through genetic engineering, which the masses are generally opposed to.
this might be entirely anecdotal, but I remember when I lived in the swampy area outside of Houston a couple things we observed were that people who ate more fruit, especially bananas, tended to attract more mosquitos, but when those people started taking garlic pills, they became a less attractive meal. This might all be related to how they're attracted to sugar and repelled by certain smells. But it also might just be coincidental.
Years ago I read that an amino acid female mosquitos require to produce eggs, was raised significantly in the bloodstream after people ate bananas. It made me suspicious, because mom only made banana pudding for outings, and then was too busy (getting everyone else to eat some) to eat any herself, unless she brought leftovers home.
Damn. Here I was hoping for drunk mosquitoes. On a side note, those buggers somehow manage to bite me even through jeans! I am, sadly, one of those mosquito magnets.
This makes sense why I'm usually one of the least bitten in groups. 1: I am a shallow breather. 2: I don't sweat as much as some people. I get clammy, but it takes a lot of exertion and heat to actually sweat, and even then my clothes aren't as wet as some others. As well as that, I don't think I get very stinky very quickly. 3: I've never had malaria or anything to my knowledge. 4: I usually wear either natural "camping" colors like greens and browns, or bright colors like pink and light blue when I'm camping. 5: I don't drink alcohol. Until just a couple years ago I never even tried anything alcoholic.
Me: I'm a guy who breathes, always wear black and loves hitting the gym. Females humans: Nobody cares. Mosquito: OMG! I could suck the blood out of you!
@@raaston9761 lol, no. I'm not saying there's any science behind my theory. It's just something I've noticed in my personal, which is admittedly anecdotal and doesn't count as evidence.
I have definitely had fewer bites when the bats start hunting around me- those bats knew where the mosquitoes were. I heard the same in a story by a backpacker who got horribly sick and had to stay by a water source. He said the bats saved him.
Dragonflies are super-predator mosquito killers. They can turn on a dime and hover. I saw one catch a housefly in mid-air; turn it upside-down and set it on a pool of water to die.
I've heard mosquitoes can smell your blood through your skin. I seem to remember that alcohol dilates capillaries (at least in the skin) - apparently explaining why a person feels warmer when drunk - so perhaps blood being closer to the skin surface simply smells stronger to them.
And maybe why they target my ankles and back of my neck and all large capillary areas!! BTW l don't drink alcohol but do enjoy sugary drinks..gotta let them go!!
Hank suggesting that people wear sequins because “there’s every reason to think that they should” repel mosquitos is one of the least scientific but also best things he’s said on scishow this year.
I'm heading to Amazon to find a nice light colored XXL sequin number! I may raise some eyebrows at the gun range, but if it works I'll be at the front of a new craze of manly menwear.
Fun note! IIRC eating a lot of fructose (from corn syrup or fruit) causes your body to produce significantly more lactic acid, which not only makes you more attractive to mosquitoes, but also makes exercise harder, as lactic acid is one of the main reasons why you get sore after exercise. It's no wonder Americans have such a hard time with exercise compared to the rest of the world, we put high fructose corn syrup in just about everything. But my main point here, eating healthy also has the added benefit, of less mosquito bites!
I'd like to see your source for that. Just because lactic acid is produced during anaerobic exercise doesn't mean that having more lactic acid already there will make it harder... Doesn't make logical sense to me but if you have a citation I'd be interested to see it!
I don't know why this came up in my feed, but I'm loving it. I'll probably subscribe if you do other videos like this. great information. on another note, I was camping many years ago in Olympia State Park and the mosquitoes were devouring us. We cut open the garlic we brought with us for meals, and rubbed it on our skin. It kept them away. Little vampires.
@@markpell8979 I don't doubt that for a moment. I have countless pieces of evidence to confirm that my phone sees and hears and reads everything. Everything. And I don't like it.
Cuntroll Denied And it’s not like they only target humans, so going after things with colors other than bland Greens and Browns gives them a better shot of landing on food
I as a mosquito magnet... can confirm this is true, very very true. Though I'm gonna have to try out wearing some different clothing, I like wearing browns gonna try orange or green for a while and see if that helps at all.
@@demikus two evenings ago I was with my aunt and she was continuous getting bitten while I had no bites at all and she was wearing light colored clothes while I was wearing a black T-shirt.
Yep. Stand next to me and they won't even know you're there. I lived in an old house in Hawaii, the windows didn't seal tightly, and every morning I would wake up with new bites and my husband never got any. I would wear bug spray to bed sometimes, it sucked.
Just an FYI...my late grandmother who lived in East Texas and spent a lot of time outside gardening...NEVER got swarmed by mosquitos or could remember ever getting a bite while everyone else was just covered in those beasts. She did get chigger bites on occasion. It was so odd that our family spent a lot of time trying to figure out what it was about her that kept her pest free. Best we could come up with was her diet. She drank buttermilk everyday...and she ate some type of cooked greens almost daily in large amounts cause she ate little meat. That was only thing she ate MORE of and more often than the rest of the family. OH...and she also used buttermilk on her skin (and mine) to protect against the sun. Could it be the buttermilk internally and externally??
It can also be hormonal just like poison ivy poison ivy you can really deathly be allergic to it and then your hormones change and you're not allergic to it anymore
Anti-itch treatment: I use the small “button” bandages. They’re just big enough to cover the bite, and the all around adhesive stops the gauze from moving. The bandage (1) reminds me to not scratch and (2) prevents the bite from being irritated by something brushing against it. They’ll fall off after four to seven days worth of showers and sweat. The itch is gone by then.
do they sell them in packages of 10,000? because that's how many I would need for a summer. I get bitten constantly,day and night. I think because 0- blood
@@pattiannepascual ☹️ How awful. I’ve also been talking a garlic pill every day. So far, I’ve had significantly fewer bites. But I’m not signing off on it yet. I’ve also been avoiding being outside more as well.
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With the drinking alcohol, maybe the mosquitoes are more attracted because alcohol thins the blood, therefore the mosquitoes use less of the chemical that keeps blood from clotting, and makes it easier for them to feast. Just a thought.
I've been on dirty keto for a little over a year. This is the first summer I've hardly been bit. I used to be mosquito magnet. Love this lifestyle change. Lost weight and only been bit 3 or 4 times this summer. It's late July now.
No they’re just flies but more annoying, and we have enough flies. You can’t even consider them being the cause of some deaths being helpful because not all of them carry diseases.
Wouldn’t be a bad thing especially if yo were able to make those mosquitos go extinct that causes diseases. They’re not really important for the eco system. But I don’t know if parasites like malaria causing plasmodium would find another host..
If I remember correctly from high school biology, the metabolism of alcohol produces lactic acid. My teacher likened a severe hangover to the soreness and fatigue you feel after a heavy workout.
Hank, you are, by far, my favorite scishow host! I am glad to hear that modified mosquitoes are being created, lol. You all should do a video on starlings, and how to eradicate them :)
During backyard barbeques, we would often put a block of dry ice in the opposite corner of the yard. It attracted and killed a lot of the little buggers.
I take vitamine B supplements, and have found out that I don't attract mosquitoes anymore. Once I was sitting next to a friend, and all the mosquitoes was on her, but not on me. When I was younger all the mosquitoes would have been on me too.
This makes me realise how lucky I am to be in Iceland because there are no mosquitos here. And that's a good thing for my mom because she is allergic to them and is such a magnet that even with strong bug spray they still go for my mom and she fits none of the things here. Odd.
My brother loved sweets and would constantly eat them, but I don't have a sweet tooth at all. I get bit and he doesn't. It's body chemistry, some of us are just super attractive to mosquitos. I can eat garlic, wear the right clothes, be covered in insect repellant, AND surrounded by drunk people with NO insect repellent on. I am the only one getting bit. Those mosquitoes will die to get a taste of me.
I get the feeling that Hank has a lot of sequins in his wardrobe, and wants a excuse to wear nothing else... Wear what you want to wear Hank. You don't need an excuse. We love you for you.
Ticks are another insect that is attracted to CO2. My father figured this out in 1969. He wondered why there are always more ticks around well-travelled roadways. If you step off the road out of sight to pee, (something my brother and I did even on short trips at ages 4 and 6), we almost always came back with some ticks. He wondered if it was the heat so he experimented. Our kitchen table was huge so he put a tick in the middle of it, put a glass of water at exactly 98.6 degrees at one end and himself at the other and breathed towards the tick. It always ignored the water and headed right for him. He couldn't, however, devise an experiment to see if they clustered by roads because of the CO that the cars gave off, since there isn't a good way to concentrate CO without rather quickly going into a coma and dying. I will never forget this experiment so Hank's suggestion to stop breathing is accurate although, unfortunately, rather impractical. My father was a really amazing man, he always wanted to find out the WHY of everything and this was only one of many venues that he explored.
@@JoMarieHartup I live in the south? I get about two insect bites a year, sometimes more sometimes less and I have never seen a mosquito in real life to my knowledge so unless they bite me when I'm not looking there aren't any in my town!
I used to go fresh water fishing a lot and the song Ride of the Valkyrie comes to mind after sunset when the mosquito invasion begins. The solution at the time was to start a bond fire or used bug repellent. Knowing that mosquitoes have thermo vision, I experimented with windbreaker jackets with the theory that the material will mask my body heat. Bought two: one blue, one grey. They are very light, compact, and shield me from the cold windy days. Haven't been bitten since from all my outdoor nature trips whenever I wear them.
I found from personal experience that peppermint essential oil completely repels mosquitos like repelling magnets. I went for a walk with my aunt in Nebraska once after the rains had caused some flooding. I went with the flow but I questioned her and my sanity pretty hard. We went for a walk around dusk along this trail surrounded by trees and various Nebraska things (idek), and my aunt somehow convinced me this dottera peppermint oil would repel mosquitos. And that we’d be completely fine. So I put it on and said my final farewells to my loved ones and went on a walk with her. MY AUNT LITERALLY HAD A VISIBLE BUBBLE AROUND HER! It was insane! She gave zero flying saucers about how many mosquitos were surrounding me, but around her there was a literal swarm following her at least a foot behind her at all times. There were so many mosquitos that they actually resembled a gas cloud, or a visible fart. When we got home and settled, neither of us had a single bite. Of course I went dressed like Sheldon Cooper taking the bus, but she wore shorts and a t shirt with zero bites. It was as if the peppermint formed a tangible bubble around her that was impenetrable by these little shards. It reminded me of those reproduction animation videos of sperm trying to be the first one to penetrate the egg. Only this egg didn’t fertilize, not once! I can’t say for certain all forms of peppermint work, or work as well as the one we used, but with that dottera oil I had never felt more adapted to Nebraska than in that moment. Just thought I’d share for anyone who may need a new (and natural) mosquito repellent. Dottera peppermint essential oil. That stuff works like repelling magnets for humans and mosquitos. I hope this helps! Also, does anyone know the benefit of mosquitos in life? It seems like if we got rid of them, nothing bad would happen. But that also seems highly ignorant to assume considering nothing in nature is ever found existing without some kind of benefit.
Mint oil helps repel other insects, like spiders, and will help repel even mice. I spray diluted mint oil in my house where it is a concern. ....Sure beats DEET, right?
I was told by someone about 25 years ago to take vitamin b2 and b12 for 2 weeks before and during a holiday to Egypt. This I was told would stop mosquitoes getting me. So I did and do so everytime I go to a hot country. I never have a problem with mosquitoes and see people near by getting eaten by them.
Watching this may have answered a question I've had floating around in my head for a while. Over the past few years (ten or so) in the summer, I've often been bitten by mozzies at night, to the point where come April time, I put insect netting over my windows. I am also a type 2 diabetic ( a result of an auto immune condition that affected my thyroid gland at the same time), and at times I struggle to keep my blood sugar levels under proper control, especially in summer, when they tend to spike. I don't recall having much, if any, problem with mosquitoes and their bites before I developed diabetes, so I wondered if the condition was playing a part in my sudden attractiveness to them. Well, now I know. With my blood laden with sugar, I must have smelt like the biggest toffee apple or marshmallow around to them. When it gets hot, my blood sugar levels tend to rise as the heat causes me physical stress. Like all people, I sweat more when hot, so must release a lot of different compounds, including ketones, which your body produces when it isn't processing glucose properly. Clearly, I've been ringing a very loud, if involuntary, dinner bell to the little suckers all along!
Type 1 diabetics are prone to high ketones. Type 2 diabetics can reverse their diabetes with a ketogenic diet. I also have thyroid disease and developed type 2 diabetes which I reversed by elevating my ketones and lowering my blood sugar with a ketogenic then carnivore diet. Lost weight too.
I've been using a tip I got on UTube-vicks vapor rub. A little does the trick. Haven't had a tick either. Put it on my dogs when they go out. Can't hurt!
@@ericolens3 I'll support anyone who likes to analyze everything :) Hair color is blond but buzz cut now so summertanned nordic guy color ^_^ Blood type is B+. T-shirt was blue (more dark than light blue). No alcohol. Not showered for at least 24 hours, probably 48. No sweaty smell though. Standard axe perfume but it had probably worn off. I've always attracted them. When i was a young kid my parents had to take me to the emergency when we were abroad (Finland) due to massive amount of mosquito bites!
No mention of drastically increasing the iron level of your blood, letting the mosquitoes feed, then wearing a giant magnet? Probably the most common way of becoming a mosquito magnet. [CITATION NEEDED]
As funny as that sounds, there was a researcher that used a magnet to catch thousands of mosquitoes. Do a search on it and maybe find it. I can't remember where I saw it. Pretty amazing, though the magnet they used was one of those super magnets making a not so easy solution.
@@jamesross1003 perhaps they captured the drone mosquitoes. They likely have actual metal in them, unless they 3D print them? They released a few batches so far, twice in Florida and somewhere else I can't remember.
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Artificial sweateners are supposed to kill humming birds since thwy smell sweet, but give no energy; I wonder if it would keep mosquito eggs from devoloping
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Hi love the videos. I've been watching Alec Steele a blacksmith who works with Damascus alot and he explains that he used ferric chloride to etch the damascus and because there are different ammounts of carbon in the layers one turns dark and the other one not so much, and I've been looking around google and RUclips for a video explaining this and I haven't been able to find one maybe you could be the first to make a video on it
So dark clothes attract mosquitoes, and
bright clothes attract bees and wasps, but
no clothes means more surface available for bites and stings.
I learned it from halo: *wear good camo*
Don't exist, problem fixed!
Ken O Hahaha yeah, it seems like you can't win.
wear white.
That's why i always go outsode with armor
I've found that directing a fan at my face while I slept made it way more difficult for mosquitos to locate me even if they were in the room. (And even if they do, good luck fighting that air current, you little spawns of satan.)
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But how do you sleep? 😅
This is my method as well.
@@Ekaekto ...With my eyes closed? The wind from the fan doesn't really bother me. If anything, it keeps me cold enough to also use a blanket, most of the time.
Me lying on my bed itching my 8 bites because I have no self control: "I might have to stop breathing."
Make yourself pyjamas out of aluminum foil and you should be good. And you only have to stop exhaling, not inhaling, so you're good.
8 bites? That's nothing.
Itching is an irritating sensation that makes you want to scratch your skin. Sometimes it can feel like pain, but it is different. Often, you feel itchy in one area in your body, but sometimes you may feel itching all over. Along with the itching, you may also have a rash or hive . You mean SCRATCHING
randy garcia if you REALLY wanna get into the nitty gritty of it, scratching oneself makes the bug bites worse, making the itching sensation worse; as a rough sweater can itch you, I itch myself by scratching.
I understand. Mosquitos love me. Try the anti-itch cream or gel w benedryl. Helped for me. Also, mosquitos don’t like lavender or ecalyptus. I’ve been using Dr Teals lavender body cream and no bites even without DEET. Good luck to you.
My husband used to claim that the best natural way to repel mosquitoes was to alter the chemistry in your sweat, including the regular use of the sauna (sweat out the pheremones that attract mosquitoes) smoking, and eating ridiculous amounts of garlic. He seldom got bitten, but sometimes his breath repelled me too!
Mosquitos are attracted to the scent of refined sugar in your system. I stopped eating all refined sugar products and all of the mosquitos vanished. I get no more mosquitos.
@@pollypurree1834 try going to a swamp during mosquito season. You’ll soon learn the only way to not attract mosquito is stop existing.
Um would I rather get 100 mpsquito bites or sit in a sauna for half an hour?
Uh, mosquitoes. At least I can slap mosquitoes, I can't slap the claustrophobia away.
@@andyhaochizhang normally I would agree with you but I’ve literally put this to the test in high mosquito dense places and they have no interest in me, same with ticks. Everyone around me will be getting bit and I don’t even have one on my skin let alone a bite. I think it’s an awesome super power but it is a little weird.
@@crystalfahlsing4296 I am a reasonably accurate barometer of mosquito density.
If they are there they will come out just to bite me. overall I'm rather pale, have the metabolism of a particularly athletic slug, and don't sweat often or heavily, though I do eat more refined sugars than I aught. I find having a fan on helps, but I still wake up with a handful of new bites every god damned time.
Fortunately ticks don't share the same infatuation. I've gotten 2 in my life and both were tremendously awkward experiences.
1. CO2 in your breath
2. Sweat
3. Mosquito borne diseases
4. Dark coloured clothes
5. Drinking alcohol
@No Name Lets be honest, you're gonna waste it anyway.
there must be other reasons, cause these don't explain my case at all.
Thank you! You need more thumbs, had to scroll too far down
@@CujoHyer lol
Thank you. I actually paused the video to search for this comment.
*5 Things That Make You a Mosquito Magnet*
Me: "Oh, good, once I watch this video I'll be able to keep mosquitoes away by avoiding these things"
*#1. Breathing*
Me: "Heck"
Just don't breath. It's not that hard.
Wear a mask.
You've been hecking bamboozled ʕ º ᴥ ºʔ
A baby developing inside. Dehumanizes them by calling the baby a fetus. As all who support murder, they dehumanizes their human targets
@@Baruch-Hashem what?
Me: exist
Mosquito: it's free real estate.
Mosquito: looks like blood's back on the menu boys...
Dinner's ready.
Yup. I have "All You Can Eat Buffet" written on me in bug language.
I'd have thought the lice would be saying that.
dead meme
When I was a kid (1960's) my father would catch mosquitos in a jar while on vacation (us on vacation, not the mosquitos) and then breathe into the jar quickly then close it up again, and we'd watch the mosquitos get all excited and start shaking. He (i.e. Dad) explained that it was the CO2. So this has been known for decades.
How did he catch them.. how were you not all bitten
@@aprilapril2 I don't recall, I was little. But there were so many it was pretty easy to just have an open jar and catch them. And I think we used "OFF" as a repellent. But we DID get bit.
Good science experiment for kids…
Going to try this with my grandkids for fun
@@mlcarey1000 I'd love to hear how it goes. I wonder if there are different varieties of mosquitos who react differently.
"the people were drinking beer, not the mosquitoes". Thanks for clarifying that, Hank.
So, if your blood alcohol was high enough would the mosquito get a buzz?
Maybe the mosquitos should be given a beer and then maybe they would forget what they were doing.
I pictured drunk mosquitos.
I love misplaced antecedents!
I thought this meant the people were drinking mosquitos before I saw the video lol
The worst when there is a mosquito in your room and your trying to sleep but the blood sucking bastard keeps buzzing your ear and your flailing helplessly just trying to kill the bugger in the dark so you can go to sleep
I use a dustbuster type of handheld vac to suck them suckers up. Works
Iike a charm.
“ Literally me right now “ 🥲
Use earplugs and cover everything but your mouth and nose. If you wanna kill it, just turn on the lights, kill it, turn off the lights, and go back to sleep.
I wait for it to come close to the ear then smash down with my ready hand parallel to my head. It's quite successful.
I just killed one, it was one of the greatest mosquitoes I ever fought. Was attacking me for 2 hours and was a great hider
"More mosquitoes landed on subjects after drinking a glass of beer than before"
"The people were drinking beers, not the mosquitoes"
-Hank, 2019
I was going to call him on that! 😂
Maybe if we get the mosquitoes drunk, they won't be able to bite us!
@@TheRogueWolf they would be even dumber than they all ready are
Also, the people were not drinking the mosquitoes
Prototype Man X obviously mosquitoes are tiny little lushes, lol
I always found that if I was coated in smoke from the BBQ or campfire, the skeeters would leave me alone :)
I get bitten thru clothes in bright sun. The only thing that keeps them away is smoky fire.
I've found that to be helpful too.
They seem to love my cigarette smoke though, unsure if theyre attracted to niccotine or if they just know thats where a person is
@@CarolReidCA That's my last name too
Yeah and everyone else will too. 😜
"So here are 5 things that might be making you a mosquito magnet"
Me: Okay great, maybe this'll help.
"1: Breathing"
Me: brb calling mom to say bye.
Everybody: *Breaths*
Mosquitos: 👀
*Breathes
me: i'm ready to be a mosquito repellant and do none of these things
*number 1: **_breathing_*
me: uh
coward
Its perfectly normal to not breathe
He is the best narrator/presenter/spokesman/host.
He's so nice on the ears and eyes. Thank you for existing Hank Green.
As well as the SciShow team
I have no idea my blood type but pretty sure it's IB tasty.
Yep! I've said for years…i could be one of 100 in a room & they'd find & bite me!!
Tiffany Briley That was awesome! 😋
My mother in law says I have fairy blood, meaning it must taste like sugar to them lol
@@loverrlee my mom says I need to stop eating so much sweets (but I still do >:3)
😆😆
Few hours ago I was painting drum brakes on car. I was 1. deep breathing, 2. sweating, 3. drinking beer, 4. wearing gray shirt. So thanks SciShow for uploading too late, this all could have been prevented.
Thanks for writing all the things,you just saved me 14 minutes 🙏🏽
Deep breathing while painting?
Must be high as a kite
@Intra Ignis that's really out there? Would you like to share something? Coming out are you?
Were you bitten by a mosquito though 😂
The real question is, why paint drum brakes lol
When there’s other people in the room but only you get bitten! 🤨
*1,901,082 other people
*slowly raises hand (and then gets bitten)*
Stinky! Take a shower!
ReZisT Lust 😂 but I take shower every day 😅
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I love how this show is for people of all areas of scientific aptitude and delivers information in such a clear and efficient manner. This is how things ought to be taught
I read comments all day and I’ve learned so much from other folks . There’s some good honest people in the world which is a comfort
I will listen again with your perspective in mind. On first listening, the narrator sounded to my ear too keen to channel Sheldon Cooper...!
Hank: mosquitoes are more attracted to dark colored surfaces
Me: "pouts in goth"
Same!
😅
i was thinking the same thing smh 🤦🏻♀️
i'll just wear pink then!
Looking cool is a risk I'm willing to take. Plus bleeding sores will be even MORE goth
Me: *Breathes.*
Mosquitos: Alright boys, our next target has been acquired.
gals* since, only female mosquitoes bite ya
Just breath into a ziplock bag
You’re gonna need a lot of ziplocks tho
your CO2 smells great
Remember that Doctor Who episode where they had to stop breathing to blend in with the extremely unintelligent androids?
Scishow- “Mosquitoes are more attracted to darker clothes”
Me-*looks into closet* “Guess I gotta toss all my clothes so I can survive a mosquito breakout”
I know this is a year later... But I'm hoping 2020 doesn't read this post.
ISayEep lmaooo gosh I hope not
When I had anemia (low iron in blood) mosquitos would avoid me like the plague, so how attracted mosquitos have been to me has always correlated with the amount of iron in my diet/body. When I started eating better and fixed my anemia I unfortunately became their target, which I figured would happen 😂
Yeah def not the case for me and myself at blood transfusion needing anemia.
Lazy pea, are you a chubbyemu fan?
I have chronic anemia, they *love* biting me. Of course I also have 0+ blood, which they apparently really like..
Glad to see you're better
@@JatPhenshllem :) underrated kind comment. Have a like :)
*Mosquito enters house
Me:*sees Mosquito
*also me is armed with multiple weapons just to deal with Mosquitos
*YOU PICKED THE WRONG HOUSE FOOL*
Sorry that user name is taken Pick another one *Not funny at all
Let's put some sugar water out. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
10 minutes later.
Ahhh! Why are there so many bees????
Bee: its free real estate
and ants; and flies and a lot more animals.
Lavender, Rosemary, mint, and other types of plants help deter mosquitos. I have a lavender and a mint right beside my backyard door and they go away. They do not like the fragrance of flowers
@@breprince1205 I have no fresh open water near by. only salt sea water that helps as well. they can't lay eggs in salt water.
And look, there's a bear...
When I was going through chemo, I definitely noticed that I got less bug bites when I went to camp over the years I didn't. I never really got a ton of bites, but I didn't get a single bite that one summer. I assume they could smell the change in my blood and realized I was toxic.
My friend has chemo for 8 months now and on July 4th he got bit on his legs
It has been 12 yrs since my chemo and they still avoid biting me. They maybe be following me but seldom bite me. So that is the upside of the hell chemo put us through. I Hope you are doing well..
Help! I'm a celebrity with those blood suckers, and need some advice witch does not include stopping breathing?!
The chemo drugs are all different
Like how the zombies in "World War Z" ignore any human with an illness like they aren't even there lol
As a goth chubby alcoholic, I feel loved.
By mosquitos. Damn it.
when he say offer a different snack, i thought it meant hang out with more mosquitoes magnet friend so they attack them rather me.
I'd totally do that😂😂
"You don't have to be faster than the bear. You only have to be faster than your slowest friend."
LOL, very funny!!!
I thought that, too! 🤣
I mean, this is my go-to...
Hank at 2:40: "So, if you don't want to get bit you can just stop breathing all the time"
Me: *"Okay!"* _*dies_
Now you got worm problems!
just wear a breathing mask
Rest in Peace
Me: a goth alchoholic... "stop breathing" sure!
"Also don't wear black or drink"
Me: ya lost me there.
Lol
hey, if you could pull off a goth bee keeper suit, that would rock!
@@geraldfrost4710 Black mesh and black duct tape. Very Alexander McQueen.
@@dindranew.6808 I didn't know who that was; some of my shirts are 20 years old (awaiting a new splatter of paint). Yep: McQueen could put a goth beekeeper's gown down the runway and it would fit right in. Call it "Gothic Bride", and it would sell for $5,250. I'm in the wrong business.
@@geraldfrost4710 Ha, my favorite shirts all have paint or glue, too. Best way to live. :D
"Leave out sugar water"
Bees and wasps: Ohh a buffet
I don't think that would work anyway though. Female mosquitoes use blood in egg production. Sugar water is just for metabolism- replacing nectar from flowers. Sugar water can't replace the blood needed for egg production.
@@catlover2223 Male mosquitoes actually do only consume nectar. They're pollinators. That just gives weight to the fact that the females would still need to consume blood.
Wasps will drown themselves in droves in a cup of orange soda.
I'll just stop breathing then, problem solved
Sandrosian help me change my race too
@@robertct06 there's only one race. You don't want to be human? 🤔
@@1GamersRewind
Mosquitos wont bite you if you are a mosquito.
@@MrDUneven citation needed.
Sir Awesomeness nah. I want to be an elf
Mosquitos absolutely love me. And, for some reason, when they bite the back of my legs, the bites turn into baseball sized welts that itch and hurt like crazy
Selsun shampoo. Dabbed on bites chiggers, skiters, relief gone in 24 hours.
Yes, me too. I have scars all over my legs and arms from mosquito bites that swell up!! They love me. I'm diabetic and always wondered if the liked my blood because it has more sugar in it.
@@lisaemmerich138 Mosquitoes tore me up when I used to drink beer, I would swell up for a couple of days. I quit drinking 8 years ago, they don't bother me anymore. I'm pretty sure it's the sugar.
Welcome to Arizona where the impenetrable heat wall protects you from the dirty flying needles
Unless you live within 10 miles of the River. O.o
😂
@Peace Ecaep Wisconsin mosquitoes are evil. I have been a skeeter feeding station my entire life. Usually I don't feel their bites, but the Wisconsin breed hurts when it bites! Almost a sting, plus the resulting welt is 3-4 times larger than what I normally get.
In Minnesota we make signs saying they *are* our state bird. 🤦♀️
d i r t y f l y i n g n e e d l e s
I am and have always been a mosquito magnet. I am glad you mentioned sugar. I don't have the science to back up sugar as a draw but I think it's something to do with it. I think a study with diabetics and non diabetic people would be interesting.
I think that something in the breath attracting mosquitos is interesting also.
But when I lived in Georgia, ahot and humid climate, I noticed that if I could keep from getting bitten that I wasn't that attractive to mosquitos. But once I was bitten I would be swarmed from then on. This made me wonder if the mosquitos excreted something into my blood while they were sucking my blood. Just seemed like they planted and waved a flag, "over here guys!" Just a thought
I'm hypoglycemic, my husband is diabetic type 1 they don't eat him they eat me.
Or maybe that day, you were sweeter 🤷🏼♀️
Trisha what you are thinking fits in with the studies about if diseased ones bite you it attracts others.
@@ktkilntime1586 funny
@@HosCreates I am hypoglycemia also. I realize that 2 people do not equal a double blind study. But interestingly we are both hypoglycemia.
I never knew mosquitoes were racists. Thanks for the info Hank!
🙄
@@AugustusBohn0 there joking
@@malachibest463 THEY’RE*
Another reason to hate them
Fun fact. I'm watching this from Manaus, I'm the middle of the Amazon in the middle of the night while being feasted upon by those suckers. I've had Malaria twice and as a living mosquito magnet can confirm the information
@@kx2174 That is all such great info! Thank you for taking the time to include all the links. I'm very grateful for your kindness. God bless you!
Try smoke from an open fire. It seems to help me on camping trips. Have a great time there! Beautiful place!
@@tommurphy2332 loooool I thought it was Chloroquine, dude (or whatever that’s called)
@UCa9NSF75lDCFzHz9vsPSzEA fun fact, I’ve had dengue thrice and ivermectin had no effect protecting me whatsoever
@@altgoncalves1472 A woman I know well in the Philippines has just recovered from Corona Virus after being treated with IVERMECTIN. Others in the same family were treated for Dengue Fever with it and they are doing well.
Finally, RUclips recommended something useful and interesting.
You have not been using RUclips right! I am addicted to YT. Please help me stop.
And l thank them..not just for this video but for all the interchange and info exchange among those of us who suffer to find some comfort in numbers and possible solutions!! Plus..those who don't have Whatever Combo of alerts to the mosquitoes, will never understand and/or be sympathetic to us!! They just don't get it and l am so happy they don't!
Well, I don't know of any studies to support or refute this, but I've found that if I use just the tiniest amount of plain lavender essential oil, suddenly there's a three-foot Cone of No Mosquitoes around me. And I like the smell, which is nice for me.
In Brazil, everyday is mosquito season.
Tharso Moreira ha same in Nigeria
{agrees in Coastal north Australian]
Well, are all tropical countries like that? 😅
Tharso Moreira it is summer all year round in the tropics
Indonesia can relate
10:30 "People were cooler after drinking"
Well, kids, you heard it here first. Drinking alcohol literally makes you cool!
Like, don't drink and drive if you haven't automatic
:-)))
Lol they got this wrong. It doesn't warm or cool you down. It dilates the blood vessels so your skin feels more of the natural heat you make. This can lead to increased sweating which probably is why it attracts more mosquitos.
@@ladwarcoffee, alcohol also makes you produce more CO2
@@mycelia_ow while that might attract them to an area, CO2 isn't what they are directly looking for before biting.
Offer them a different snack...
me: oh no, is he going to say sacrifice our friends???
If thats the case its a sacrifice im willing to make vote red guyes he been sus
Is there any other option? 🤣
I've finally found a person the mosquitoes like more than they like me. I think I'm going to invite her to all my travels and garden parties! Alternatively, a bait-person to rent would be good. Just someone who's a mosquito magnet and would like to get paid to stand in the corner when we're having a bbq.
Of all the creatures that are going extinct, can’t we make a concerted effort to add mosquitoes to that list? Instead of the others I mean.
They are important pollinators and keep some animals in check though
As good as that might seem to do ifeel like doing that would be a mistake as mosquitoes are a food source for animals and making them extinct could indirecly ruin other animal populations as well.
@@prettykitty610 that's how it always happens. Mosquitoes are imporant, they are pollinators, they keep other species in check and their larvae are an important food source for other arthropods and fish
Its doable. The method would likely be replacing existing mosquitoes with genetically altered mosquitos such that they continue to exist in the ecosystem but no longer bother humans. Or just replace the bitey species with a non bitey one. There is an effort in north America to take out the invasive mosquito species aedes aegypti, but its not getting very far since wiping them out is best done through genetic engineering, which the masses are generally opposed to.
Yes please
Me: breathes
Mosquitoes: *Time for a fricking crusade*
The Great CooLite lol
since you said the terrible f-word i am going to have to report you
(sarcasm)
@Intra Ignis You have anger issues, you should get that checked out
bigi1073 abby /s/
@@invaderzim3015 some people you really need to let go cuz you just want them to suffer the hard way
this might be entirely anecdotal, but I remember when I lived in the swampy area outside of Houston a couple things we observed were that people who ate more fruit, especially bananas, tended to attract more mosquitos, but when those people started taking garlic pills, they became a less attractive meal. This might all be related to how they're attracted to sugar and repelled by certain smells. But it also might just be coincidental.
Years ago I read that an amino acid female mosquitos require to produce eggs, was raised significantly in the bloodstream after people ate bananas.
It made me suspicious, because mom only made banana pudding for outings, and then was too busy (getting everyone else to eat some) to eat any herself, unless she brought leftovers home.
Damn. Here I was hoping for drunk mosquitoes.
On a side note, those buggers somehow manage to bite me even through jeans! I am, sadly, one of those mosquito magnets.
Hank said that you could try feeding them. Just add some extra sugar to the mixers you were gonna serve.
This makes sense why I'm usually one of the least bitten in groups. 1: I am a shallow breather. 2: I don't sweat as much as some people. I get clammy, but it takes a lot of exertion and heat to actually sweat, and even then my clothes aren't as wet as some others. As well as that, I don't think I get very stinky very quickly. 3: I've never had malaria or anything to my knowledge. 4: I usually wear either natural "camping" colors like greens and browns, or bright colors like pink and light blue when I'm camping. 5: I don't drink alcohol. Until just a couple years ago I never even tried anything alcoholic.
Me: I'm a guy who breathes, always wear black and loves hitting the gym.
Females humans: Nobody cares.
Mosquito: OMG! I could suck the blood out of you!
I relate to this way too well.
even better.. thos that bite are female mosquitos.. so at least you are attracted to some females ;)
Just Some Guy without a Mustache lol maybe if you grew a mustache humans would take notice?
Hey there handsome. Is that your real blue hair?
Maybe the girls will start coming in when u stop being a weeb
" Mosquitoes like dark colored things "
Welp I guess us African / Brown people will be getting munched by mosquitoes forever then SMH! 🙄
I find that revelation odd because whenever I'm around darker skinned people, I get bit more, but when I'm around paler people, I get bit less.
@@karikling8812 and if you are around me you end up getting sunburnt form how pale my skin is
@@raaston9761 lol, no. I'm not saying there's any science behind my theory. It's just something I've noticed in my personal, which is admittedly anecdotal and doesn't count as evidence.
Lmao😭
😂....i'm screwed too
Bat Boxes on every telephone pole in the US could reduce the population...
Bats don't have significant control effects, mosquito fish are good and altosid is better.
I have definitely had fewer bites when the bats start hunting around me- those bats knew where the mosquitoes were. I heard the same in a story by a backpacker who got horribly sick and had to stay by a water source. He said the bats saved him.
Dragonflies are super-predator mosquito killers. They can turn on a dime and hover. I saw one catch a housefly in mid-air; turn it upside-down and set it on a pool of water to die.
"Obviously I was joking about, like, not breathing..."
*_starts breathing again..._* wheeew!
I've heard mosquitoes can smell your blood through your skin. I seem to remember that alcohol dilates capillaries (at least in the skin) - apparently explaining why a person feels warmer when drunk - so perhaps blood being closer to the skin surface simply smells stronger to them.
And maybe why they target my ankles and back of my neck and all large capillary areas!! BTW l don't drink alcohol but do enjoy sugary drinks..gotta let them go!!
Hank suggesting that people wear sequins because “there’s every reason to think that they should” repel mosquitos is one of the least scientific but also best things he’s said on scishow this year.
Absolutely. I have a friend that loves mermaid sequin stuff and I'm trying to convince her that she's finally safe to go camping now lol
I'm heading to Amazon to find a nice light colored XXL sequin number! I may raise some eyebrows at the gun range, but if it works I'll be at the front of a new craze of manly menwear.
I'll go for a nice shimmery gown ;)
Fun note! IIRC eating a lot of fructose (from corn syrup or fruit) causes your body to produce significantly more lactic acid, which not only makes you more attractive to mosquitoes, but also makes exercise harder, as lactic acid is one of the main reasons why you get sore after exercise.
It's no wonder Americans have such a hard time with exercise compared to the rest of the world, we put high fructose corn syrup in just about everything. But my main point here, eating healthy also has the added benefit, of less mosquito bites!
You're right.
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I'd like to see your source for that. Just because lactic acid is produced during anaerobic exercise doesn't mean that having more lactic acid already there will make it harder... Doesn't make logical sense to me but if you have a citation I'd be interested to see it!
HFCS isn't any worse than eating table sugar. it's all just fructose, glucose and some other -oses.
I don't know why this came up in my feed, but I'm loving it. I'll probably subscribe if you do other videos like this. great information. on another note, I was camping many years ago in Olympia State Park and the mosquitoes were devouring us. We cut open the garlic we brought with us for meals, and rubbed it on our skin. It kept them away. Little vampires.
Rebecca, this came up in your feed because you were talking with, texting or emailing someone about mosquitoes over your phone.
@@markpell8979 I don't doubt that for a moment. I have countless pieces of evidence to confirm that my phone sees and hears and reads everything. Everything. And I don't like it.
@@markpell8979 I miss the before times. I was 3 - 13 in the 70s, and I wouldn't trade it for a later arrival date.
Does that apply to skin. If you have dark skin are you screwed?
Ask the Africans
No, and to quote the hungry hungry baby,
“Tastes like BLACK.”
If you apply the logic they used, yeah it should but I think they avoided saying that to avoid controversy
Well geographically speaking, mosquitoes are generally found in places like Africa and South Asia, so looks like that could be true.
Cuntroll Denied
And it’s not like they only target humans, so going after things with colors other than bland Greens and Browns gives them a better shot of landing on food
be near to a mosquito magnet person so you will never be hit.
Sad but true
I as a mosquito magnet... can confirm this is true, very very true. Though I'm gonna have to try out wearing some different clothing, I like wearing browns gonna try orange or green for a while and see if that helps at all.
@@demikus two evenings ago I was with my aunt and she was continuous getting bitten while I had no bites at all and she was wearing light colored clothes while I was wearing a black T-shirt.
Yep. Stand next to me and they won't even know you're there. I lived in an old house in Hawaii, the windows didn't seal tightly, and every morning I would wake up with new bites and my husband never got any. I would wear bug spray to bed sometimes, it sucked.
Just an FYI...my late grandmother who lived in East Texas and spent a lot of time outside gardening...NEVER got swarmed by mosquitos or could remember ever getting a bite while everyone else was just covered in those beasts. She did get chigger bites on occasion. It was so odd that our family spent a lot of time trying to figure out what it was about her that kept her pest free. Best we could come up with was her diet. She drank buttermilk everyday...and she ate some type of cooked greens almost daily in large amounts cause she ate little meat. That was only thing she ate MORE of and more often than the rest of the family. OH...and she also used buttermilk on her skin (and mine) to protect against the sun. Could it be the buttermilk internally and externally??
Lactic acid content in buttermilk could explain why grannie was less appealing to the flying beasts.
@@tbell1698
I thought lactic acid attracted the monsters..
It can also be hormonal just like poison ivy poison ivy you can really deathly be allergic to it and then your hormones change and you're not allergic to it anymore
Might be that she was enemic? Less iron in her blood due to not eating meat.
Probiotics in buttermilk may reduce the growth of the bacteria that produce most of the smell of sweat.
Anti-itch treatment: I use the small “button” bandages. They’re just big enough to cover the bite, and the all around adhesive stops the gauze from moving. The bandage (1) reminds me to not scratch and (2) prevents the bite from being irritated by something brushing against it. They’ll fall off after four to seven days worth of showers and sweat. The itch is gone by then.
do they sell them in packages of 10,000? because that's how many I would need for a summer. I get bitten constantly,day and night. I think because 0- blood
@@pattiannepascual ☹️ How awful. I’ve also been talking a garlic pill every day. So far, I’ve had significantly fewer bites. But I’m not signing off on it yet. I’ve also been avoiding being outside more as well.
The drought in the western US has helped. Much less water habitat.
I wish I could help your channel, but I'm living on the edge so to speak at this moment. But i love your channel and have for years. You can trust your information and you deliver it an interesting way.. Thank you for informing us....
With the drinking alcohol, maybe the mosquitoes are more attracted because alcohol thins the blood, therefore the mosquitoes use less of the chemical that keeps blood from clotting, and makes it easier for them to feast. Just a thought.
But how would they know that before they bit into you?
@@johnpossum556 alcohol evaporates even through the skin after a few drinks. And, obviously, through breath. Alcohol stinks very significantly.
@@soullessSiIence it also causes you to emit more C02 in your breathe.
@@xtremej2575, lol that's probably the reason itself
Alcohol also causes dilation of peripheral blood vessels, causing blood to flow closer to the surface of the skin and at an increased rate.
Every year they eat my arms and legs alive, they literally ignore others around me and I seem to be the mosquito repellent for them.
Welcome to my world!😆
I've been on dirty keto for a little over a year. This is the first summer I've hardly been bit. I used to be mosquito magnet. Love this lifestyle change. Lost weight and only been bit 3 or 4 times this summer. It's late July now.
“In case you were wondering” That’s why I’m here, thank you so much
Would it really be that bad if we just made mosquitos extinct?
Yes because they help the eco system
No they’re just flies but more annoying, and we have enough flies. You can’t even consider them being the cause of some deaths being helpful because not all of them carry diseases.
@@cathy-pz2to not in any way we can't do without.
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Wouldn’t be a bad thing especially if yo were able to make those mosquitos go extinct that causes diseases. They’re not really important for the eco system. But I don’t know if parasites like malaria causing plasmodium would find another host..
I live in an African country .It's ALWAYS mosquito season
Yikes!
My sympathies!!! One of the main reasons I hate summer are mosquitoes.
same goes to Southeast Asia
it's always mosquito season here too
Athens also, though very hot and dry weather and relatively cold weather reduces their activity.
Imagine living at the equator
If I remember correctly from high school biology, the metabolism of alcohol produces lactic acid. My teacher likened a severe hangover to the soreness and fatigue you feel after a heavy workout.
Well, new studies say that muscle soreness isn’t caused by lactic acid.
Veritasium did a video about this, showing that genetics have an additional role to play in attracting those suckers.
Thanks, my girlfriend is a mosquito, now I know what to get her for Valentine's Day
😂😂😂😂
Wow that would be rough
@Andros it's romance o'clock when my mosquito girlfriend comes flying through my balcony door
@@Tenrytheone it's only like a vampire with some extra leg power
Me = oil
Moskitoes= the united states of america
Hey, you do need a lot of fuel when you are a world power.
Mosquitoes*
@@Ragnarok540 THE world power.. 😎
Beer might make me a mosquito magnet, but I have the happiest mosquitoes around!
Wait, they like black, blue, and _red_ , but they don't like >600nm wavelengths (aka _red_ ) ?
Do they like red or not?
Pretty sure red is 680 nm
@@thefunway123 Yes? Pretty sure 680 is greater than 600
Nerd
@@stevena8719 your point?
If they straight up don't detect red light, red fabric probably looks more like black or grey. hence the attraction.
Hank, you are, by far, my favorite scishow host!
I am glad to hear that modified mosquitoes are being created, lol.
You all should do a video on starlings, and how to eradicate them :)
Pleakley from Lilo & Stitch needs to see this 😭
During backyard barbeques, we would often put a block of dry ice in the opposite corner of the yard. It attracted and killed a lot of the little buggers.
Since my husband had been taking garlic oil pills to lower his cholesterol levels, the mosquitoes leave him alone. What are your thoughts on this?
Bugs don't like garlic..
@@kennyhill2678Garlic keeps vampires from sucking your blood too.
@@stephenbaldassarre2289 LOL
I take vitamine B supplements, and have found out that I don't attract mosquitoes anymore. Once I was sitting next to a friend, and all the mosquitoes was on her, but not on me. When I was younger all the mosquitoes would have been on me too.
@@sannab6159 What supplements do you take specifically? : )
This makes me realise how lucky I am to be in Iceland because there are no mosquitos here. And that's a good thing for my mom because she is allergic to them and is such a magnet that even with strong bug spray they still go for my mom and she fits none of the things here. Odd.
My mum always said that mosquitoes really like sweet and sugary blood.
As a sweet-tooth I was struggling
this is 100% true, I can attest
Just add alot more garlic i eat a ton and never get bit .
I hardly ever get bitten since going keto.
i eat a ton of garlic and still get bit like crazy :(
My brother loved sweets and would constantly eat them, but I don't have a sweet tooth at all.
I get bit and he doesn't. It's body chemistry, some of us are just super attractive to mosquitos. I can eat garlic, wear the right clothes, be covered in insect repellant, AND surrounded by drunk people with NO insect repellent on. I am the only one getting bit. Those mosquitoes will die to get a taste of me.
Alcohol ? Patsy Stone : "The last mosquito that bit me had to book into the Betty Ford Clinic." (from british tv series "Absolutely Fabulous")
Even Saitama couldn't kill a Mosquito
Lol
Nice reference dude
GJ SciShow! You made it to trending! 👏
I get the feeling that Hank has a lot of sequins in his wardrobe, and wants a excuse to wear nothing else...
Wear what you want to wear Hank. You don't need an excuse. We love you for you.
Ticks are another insect that is attracted to CO2. My father figured this out in 1969. He wondered why there are always more ticks around well-travelled roadways. If you step off the road out of sight to pee, (something my brother and I did even on short trips at ages 4 and 6), we almost always came back with some ticks. He wondered if it was the heat so he experimented. Our kitchen table was huge so he put a tick in the middle of it, put a glass of water at exactly 98.6 degrees at one end and himself at the other and breathed towards the tick. It always ignored the water and headed right for him. He couldn't, however, devise an experiment to see if they clustered by roads because of the CO that the cars gave off, since there isn't a good way to concentrate CO without rather quickly going into a coma and dying. I will never forget this experiment so Hank's suggestion to stop breathing is accurate although, unfortunately, rather impractical. My father was a really amazing man, he always wanted to find out the WHY of everything and this was only one of many venues that he explored.
When you live in England and get to experience a blissful lack of mosquitoes all year round.
I can send you some. Want a breeding pair of feral pigs, too?
@@Patriotgal1 Yea....no thanks ;-)
Really you guys hardly have mosquitoes over there
Where in England, I get bit constantly!
@@JoMarieHartup I live in the south? I get about two insect bites a year, sometimes more sometimes less and I have never seen a mosquito in real life to my knowledge so unless they bite me when I'm not looking there aren't any in my town!
"Beer adds to attractiveness." We've known this for centuries.
Hank: "... in case you were wondering."
Me: "why yes... yes I was...thanks hank."
I used to go fresh water fishing a lot and the song Ride of the Valkyrie comes to mind after sunset when the mosquito invasion begins. The solution at the time was to start a bond fire or used bug repellent. Knowing that mosquitoes have thermo vision, I experimented with windbreaker jackets with the theory that the material will mask my body heat. Bought two: one blue, one grey. They are very light, compact, and shield me from the cold windy days. Haven't been bitten since from all my outdoor nature trips whenever I wear them.
Yeah, mosquitos make me IR8-A? I'm not Canadian, and I'm sorry if this was a terrible pun.
For sure they _irrit8_ your skin, and that pun wasn't better 😂
Very puny
" I'm not Canadian"
"I'm sorry"
something doesn't add up.
@Intra Ignis Do you just post ignorant comments on everyone's video? Did you get enough hugs growing up?
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I found from personal experience that peppermint essential oil completely repels mosquitos like repelling magnets. I went for a walk with my aunt in Nebraska once after the rains had caused some flooding. I went with the flow but I questioned her and my sanity pretty hard. We went for a walk around dusk along this trail surrounded by trees and various Nebraska things (idek), and my aunt somehow convinced me this dottera peppermint oil would repel mosquitos. And that we’d be completely fine. So I put it on and said my final farewells to my loved ones and went on a walk with her. MY AUNT LITERALLY HAD A VISIBLE BUBBLE AROUND HER! It was insane! She gave zero flying saucers about how many mosquitos were surrounding me, but around her there was a literal swarm following her at least a foot behind her at all times. There were so many mosquitos that they actually resembled a gas cloud, or a visible fart. When we got home and settled, neither of us had a single bite. Of course I went dressed like Sheldon Cooper taking the bus, but she wore shorts and a t shirt with zero bites. It was as if the peppermint formed a tangible bubble around her that was impenetrable by these little shards. It reminded me of those reproduction animation videos of sperm trying to be the first one to penetrate the egg. Only this egg didn’t fertilize, not once! I can’t say for certain all forms of peppermint work, or work as well as the one we used, but with that dottera oil I had never felt more adapted to Nebraska than in that moment. Just thought I’d share for anyone who may need a new (and natural) mosquito repellent. Dottera peppermint essential oil. That stuff works like repelling magnets for humans and mosquitos. I hope this helps!
Also, does anyone know the benefit of mosquitos in life? It seems like if we got rid of them, nothing bad would happen. But that also seems highly ignorant to assume considering nothing in nature is ever found existing without some kind of benefit.
Yep it doesn’t have to be doterrra either but just peppermint oil in general
Bats and dragonflies eat mosquitoes.
@@hellos3487 also fish, birds and frogs, though in the fish's case they're feeding on mosquito eggs i think
Mint oil helps repel other insects, like spiders, and will help repel even mice. I spray diluted mint oil in my house where it is a concern. ....Sure beats DEET, right?
Apparently mosquitoes are polinators!
I was told by someone about 25 years ago to take vitamin b2 and b12 for 2 weeks before and during a holiday to Egypt. This I was told would stop mosquitoes getting me. So I did and do so everytime I go to a hot country. I never have a problem with mosquitoes and see people near by getting eaten by them.
Watching this may have answered a question I've had floating around in my head for a while. Over the past few years (ten or so) in the summer, I've often been bitten by mozzies at night, to the point where come April time, I put insect netting over my windows. I am also a type 2 diabetic ( a result of an auto immune condition that affected my thyroid gland at the same time), and at times I struggle to keep my blood sugar levels under proper control, especially in summer, when they tend to spike. I don't recall having much, if any, problem with mosquitoes and their bites before I developed diabetes, so I wondered if the condition was playing a part in my sudden attractiveness to them.
Well, now I know. With my blood laden with sugar, I must have smelt like the biggest toffee apple or marshmallow around to them. When it gets hot, my blood sugar levels tend to rise as the heat causes me physical stress. Like all people, I sweat more when hot, so must release a lot of different compounds, including ketones, which your body produces when it isn't processing glucose properly. Clearly, I've been ringing a very loud, if involuntary, dinner bell to the little suckers all along!
Type 1 diabetics are prone to high ketones. Type 2 diabetics can reverse their diabetes with a ketogenic diet.
I also have thyroid disease and developed type 2 diabetes which I reversed by elevating my ketones and lowering my blood sugar with a ketogenic then carnivore diet. Lost weight too.
I've been using a tip I got on UTube-vicks vapor rub. A little does the trick. Haven't had a tick either. Put it on my dogs when they go out. Can't hurt!
I heard the guys talking at work and they say Skin So Soft by Avon works to keep them away.
I just got 5-6 on the back of my head, one on my leg, one on my left elbow .. nope, two on my leg
@@ericolens3 blood type B+ attracts mosquitos. O+ doesn't
@@PuneetMehra I'm O+ and I swatted around 5 mosquitos with my electric racket while watching this video. It's 2 PM here and I'm in my bedroom.
@@ericolens3 I'll support anyone who likes to analyze everything :) Hair color is blond but buzz cut now so summertanned nordic guy color ^_^ Blood type is B+. T-shirt was blue (more dark than light blue). No alcohol. Not showered for at least 24 hours, probably 48. No sweaty smell though. Standard axe perfume but it had probably worn off.
I've always attracted them. When i was a young kid my parents had to take me to the emergency when we were abroad (Finland) due to massive amount of mosquito bites!
@@ericolens3 I also tend to get somewhat swollen ears and eyes when bitten but not every time.
My friend got 20 skeeter bites
It’s probably the CO2 from the beer since it is carbonated that makes beer drinkers more attractive to mosquitoes
No mention of drastically increasing the iron level of your blood, letting the mosquitoes feed, then wearing a giant magnet? Probably the most common way of becoming a mosquito magnet. [CITATION NEEDED]
I wonder about diabetes????
As funny as that sounds, there was a researcher that used a magnet to catch thousands of mosquitoes. Do a search on it and maybe find it. I can't remember where I saw it. Pretty amazing, though the magnet they used was one of those super magnets making a not so easy solution.
@@jamesross1003 perhaps they captured the drone mosquitoes. They likely have actual metal in them, unless they 3D print them? They released a few batches so far, twice in Florida and somewhere else I can't remember.
thank you !! for offering something interesting , KNOWLAGEBLE, science based, but informative to non-scientists ! a HUGE break from the political rhetoric surrounding us . THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU !! Keep up the GREAT work !
Artificial sweateners are supposed to kill humming birds since thwy smell sweet, but give no energy; I wonder if it would keep mosquito eggs from devoloping
I have an all natural citronella oil / mint / cedar oil spray that's great! Really helping this summer!
Cool! thanks. (& I remember that song!!!)
Where can l get it or if you made it yourself..please give amts of each component!!!