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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 169504" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Daisylover, believe it or not, your kidney problems might actually be preventing mosquitoes from biting you, especially if you are anemic.</p><p></p><p>husband had myelodysplasia (bone marrow failure that eventually killed him), and we could tell what his blood counts were like based on whether or not mosquitoes went after him.</p><p></p><p>They bite in order to get blood nutrients to produce eggs; if the blood "meal" they find doesn't smell right due to blood abnormalities, they won't bite.</p><p></p><p>by the way, if you can hear the mosquito in your bedroom, that one won't bite you. Only the males "whine" and the males live on plant juices.</p><p></p><p>It's the females that go after blood and only if they are ready to produce eggs.</p><p></p><p>Of course, there is no such thing as one mosquito<g></p><p></p><p>I live in the WI Northwoods and skeeters are a huge "issue" up here where it is boggy and forested, so you have my sympathy.</p><p></p><p>husband used to joke that when he did get bitten it was a skeeter on a diet who was after "blood lite", LoL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 169504, member: 1963"] Daisylover, believe it or not, your kidney problems might actually be preventing mosquitoes from biting you, especially if you are anemic. husband had myelodysplasia (bone marrow failure that eventually killed him), and we could tell what his blood counts were like based on whether or not mosquitoes went after him. They bite in order to get blood nutrients to produce eggs; if the blood "meal" they find doesn't smell right due to blood abnormalities, they won't bite. by the way, if you can hear the mosquito in your bedroom, that one won't bite you. Only the males "whine" and the males live on plant juices. It's the females that go after blood and only if they are ready to produce eggs. Of course, there is no such thing as one mosquito<g> I live in the WI Northwoods and skeeters are a huge "issue" up here where it is boggy and forested, so you have my sympathy. husband used to joke that when he did get bitten it was a skeeter on a diet who was after "blood lite", LoL. [/QUOTE]
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