In the article, "Under siege by mozzies? Eat a Marmite sarnie! There are more biting insects than ever this year... fend them off with these clever tips," Hannah Ebelthite asked Chris Davis, our award winning Service and Technical Manager, what attracts these biting midges to their prey?
Unfortunately, it is not good news for people with Blood Group O.
‘It’s thought people with blood group O are most attractive to bugs,’ says Chris Daviss, technical manager at pest-control company Cleankill. ‘Mosquitoes are twice as likely to land on a type O person as a type A. ‘Insects use carbon dioxide, which we exhale, as their primary method of tracking their next meal. The bigger and more active you are, the more CO2 you exhale, so larger people, pregnant women and also people who work out a lot are more likely to get bitten.’
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