Mosquitoes taste you before they decide to bite

Mosquitoes taste you before they decide to bite

At a summer barbecue, mosquitoes feast on some guests while luckier partiers stay bite-free. New research helps explains why: Some people just taste better. “It feels personal sometimes, like why are they biting me?” says Lisa Baik. Baik is a sensory biologist at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. She studies how insects, especially mosquitoes, sense their world. Mosquitoes like certain ingredients in sweat, Baik’s team now finds. The insects s…