New Research Suggests Some Colors May Attract Mosquitoes

With the arrivial of summer session, number of mosquitoes incresed in massive amount and every one searching how to save from them. Entomologists are no stranger to the ever-popular question, “What’s the best way to prevent mosquito bites?” There are many ways to help prevent mosquito bites, but recently, researchers from the University of Washington published a study in the Nature Communications journal that has gotten quite a bit of attention. The study suggests the yellow fever mosquito, aedes aegypti, may be attracted to color, specifically the color red.

That study showed that orange and red colors attract mosquitoes. This same study showed that mosquitos weren’t quite as interested in green and blue colors. There’s also evidence that mosquitoes are more attracted to people when they wear darker colors.  There’s no color that can make you “invisible” to mosquitoes. But lighter colors, especially light blue and green, seem to attract less attention from mosquitoes.

“Mosquitoes appear to use odors to help them distinguish what is nearby, like a host to bite,” says study senior author Jeffrey Riffell, a professor of biology at the university. “When they smell specific compounds, like CO2 from our breath, that scent stimulates the eyes to scan for specific colors and other visual patterns, which are associated with a potential host, and head to them.”

But on the other hand as result of recent study done at the University of Washington suggest that human skine produce strong red-orange “signal” to the mosquitoes eyes. So its more imprtant to cover your body specially at evening time in open space rather than wearing any color of dress dark or light.

As per Florida Department of health over 80 different species of mosquitoes are still discovered according to them regardless human dressing of human breath mosquitoes always love to attract by humid areas, water with warm temperatures with low light conditions. Like humans, mosquitoes want to work smarter, not harder. They’ll get their meal from the easiest possible source. While you can’t control your blood type or the chemical makeup of your sweat, you can make yourself more difficult to bite. 

Health experts from WHO triger the warning that numbers of mosquito can produce dangerious diseases  that can affact humans and animals so adopt every possible way to prevent from mosquito bits