Natural History Wanderings

NPR reports

Mosquitoes searching for a meal of blood use a variety of clues to track down humans, including our body heat and the carbon dioxide in our breath. Now, research shows that a certain olfactory receptor in their antennae also serves as a detector of humans, responding to smelly chemicals in our sweat.

Read full article at  How Mosquitoes Use Human Sweat To Find And Bite Us : Shots – Health News : NPR