Or is it that the victims pest warning system is currently winning the biological arms race, in which case how are mosquitoes able to successfully reproduce? Or is it that mosquitoes have evolved such that their spawning numbers offset the difficulty they have biting?

Biology is hard.

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    Mosquitoes are not a big problem for me, and their bites do not make me itch.

    My kid, however… mosquitoes just swarm him, and the poor thing swells up when he’s bitten.

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          O- and got swarmed as a kid. A fucking cloud around me and only me :-/

          Got bitten so much I developed a resistance or something so there’s that!

          Have heard that blood type (O) but not about rhesus (- or +) attracts the bastards.

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            A is their second favourite after O, IIRC.

            Yep my mum is AB+ and she is the magnet if I’m not on holiday with them :)

            I’m so delicious I manage to protect the full villa.

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        It’s genetics. We produce some oil or something that mosquitos smell. And some people produce more then others.

        Basically bad luck.