Mosquitos and dark clothing
January 29th, 2010
Question: Does dark-colored clothing really attract more mosquitoes then light-colored clothing?
Answer: Mosquitoes are more attracted to people in dark clothing than in light-colored clothing. They use sight, smell, and heat to find a blood meal, and those people that study mosquitoes agree that the bugs see dark objects more easily than light objects.
Indeed. The same could be said about horseflies. Sometimes, aside from having light-coloured clothes you could lie down in the ground. Some insects seem to have more difficulty finding their targets in this way.