Imagine a sweaty man sitting in the middle of a forest with a cloud of mosquitoes around his head,' says Gil. 'These mosquitoes often look for body parts that stick out like your knuckles, nose or ...

While a mosquito bite is often no more than a temporary bother, in many parts of the world it can be ... and IR generated ...

As well as an ability to detect body heat and movement, mosquitoes have an excellent sense of smell, and since we give off hundreds of different chemicals as part of our body odour, it’s not ...

So why does our body react and itch after being bitten ... It's not the stabbing of our skin by the mosquito's mouth parts that hurts, it's the mozzie spit our bodies don't like.