Several studies showed that mosquitoes prefer children rather than adults, and blondes to brunettes before. The reason why they prefer to blonde is unknown, but the kids is because their basal temperatures and respiratory rates are higher than those of adults.
They can smell the CO2 in our breath of nearly 50 meters away, as well as perspiration and other secretions. They are especially attracted to people with high concentrations of steroids or cholesterol on the skin. They also prefer people who recently ate bananas.
Consequently, girls smelling banana blondes are her favorite dish.
Just can visually locate as they approach about 10 meters, and from there can detect our body heat with its infrared vision, as in the movie Predator, but 50 million volumes.
Additional trivia:
A female mosquito can come to give life to another 3,000 mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes also prefer to pregnant women because large amounts of CO2 exhaled.
Mosquito bites are increasing about 500 times when the moon is full.
90 % of mosquitoes live and die within 100 meters from where he was born.
The mosquito is the animal that produces more human deaths in the world.
Mosquitoes survive on this planet for 170 million years
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