To learn more about what attracts mosquitoes, researchers turned to one of the world’s least hygienic and most chaotic ...

A study of festivalgoers suggests that drinking beer and sharing a bed makes you more attractive to mosquitoes ...

Mosquitoes are also drawn to darker colors, particularly black and red. If you can't fathom giving up beer any time soon, it ...

Researchers led by biologist Felix Hol decided to investigate what biological and sensory contributors may have the most sway over a mosquito’s dining habits. But instead of asking volunteers to come ...

A Dutch music festival turned into a mosquito lab, revealing how beer, weed, sleep and sunscreen affect your bite appeal.

In what they called a “mosquito magnet trial,” a team of scientists and doctors from Radboud University in the Netherlands spent three days testing attendees at Lowlands, an annual music festival held ...

Researchers in the Netherlands turned a major music festival into an unexpected laboratory to investigate a question that has ...

Mosquitoes are some of the most effective hunters on the planet. They can track you down at great distance by sniffing out the air you breathe. Once they find exposed skin, they use their needle-like ...

New research at a music festival finds beer drinkers attract more mosquitoes, while sunscreen and showers help keep the bugs ...

Mosquitoes love Kim Zarins. The insects’ preference for Zarins, an English professor at Sacramento State University, is so extreme that her 18-year-old son likes her to come outside with him because ...