Prevent Mosquito Bites with These Insect Repellants

Summer’s here, which means it’s bug bite season and time to stock up on insect repellant to ward off pesky mosquitoes.  You’ve probably noticed that mosquitoes seem to prefer some people over others — one person is eaten alive by mosquitoes while another is rarely bothered by a bite. The difference in how often mosquitoes bite you may be all about the microbes that live on your skin. It seems that for some of these blood-sucking insects (only female mosquitoes bite), people with a lot of the same type of bacteria on their skin are more delicious to mosquitoes than folks with a more complex mixture of microscopic tag-alongs.

What’s a target of these flying vampires to do?

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