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Tango0123 Jan 2026 11:32 p.m. PST

"At a summer barbecue, mosquitoes feast on some guests while luckier partiers stay bite-free. New research helps explains why: Some people just taste better.

"It feels personal sometimes, like why are they biting me?" says Lisa Baik. Baik is a sensory biologist at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. She studies how insects, especially mosquitoes, sense their world…"


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Shagnasty Supporting Member of TMP24 Jan 2026 1:05 p.m. PST

Yep. My sweet wife gets bitten more often than I.

Tango0128 Jan 2026 11:14 p.m. PST

Same here…

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