From the Los Angeles Times
June 24, 2022
Summer is here and so are the mosquitoes in your backyard, waiting to nibble at your ankles. And elbows. And earlobes.
Not coincidentally, the start of the season is also National Mosquito Control Awareness Week, when the American Mosquito Control Assn. and other experts share tips for keeping these bloodsucking pests away.
Like most blood-feeding insects, mosquitoes are attracted to humans from a distance by the carbon dioxide we exhale, said Daniel Markowski, the AMCA’s technical advisor. Once they get close, they use a variety of other cues, such as shapes, sizes and colors, to home in on their hosts.