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Mosquitoes prefer to bite people who have sweet blood.
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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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Is it true that mosquitoes prefer to bite people who have sweet blood?
Unclear. The retrieved items do not directly test whether mosquitoes prefer people with sweet blood; the closest sources note that some individuals are more attractive to mosquitoes and attribute this to skin substances or olfactory learning rather than blood sweetness.
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Variability in human attractiveness to mosquitoes - PMC Lock. (n.d.). pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpvbd.2021.100058
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Does slapping biting mosquitoes attract more mosquitoes?. (2011). skeptics.stackexchange.com. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5499/does-slapping-biting-mosquitoes-attract-more-mosquitoes
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Clément, V., Chloé, L., & H., W. G. (2018). Modulation of Host Learning in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes. authors.library.caltech.edu. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.12.015
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