Want to know why you're such a tasty little treat?

Multiple studies have been conducted to determine why mosquitoes are more likely to bite one person, and avoid another entirely. Researchers have discovered the following:• Mosquitoes are attracted by sight. If you're wearing dark clothing, you might as well paint a bull's-eye on your shirt. Stick to lighter colors.• They're also attracted by smell, starting with your carbon dioxide, which you expel when you exhale. Since you can't stop breathing, there isn't much you can do about this one. It does seem, however, that larger people and pregnant women emit more of the gas, and have a tendency to get bit more often.• Body temperature can also serve as mosquito bait. Since a pregnant woman's body temperature on average is higher, she is again a more popular target.• Of course exercising is good for you, but it also makes you an attractive target for mosquitoes. As you exercise, your body gives off lactic acid, a mosquito favorite. And since your body heats up during exercise, you double your chances of getting bit.• Enjoy a beer while you're sitting around the campfire at night? Then you're more likely to get bit than your teetotaling neighbor. Researchers haven't discovered exactly why, but if you knock back a 12-ounce beer, you've just made yourself more attractive to those pesky mosquitoes.• Do your feet stink? Even if you don't think so, mosquitoes might. These pests are attracted to a variety of different bacteria that live on human skin, and since more bacteria naturally accumulates near our feet, those often become popular targets.• Finally, the cards may just be stacked against you. The female mosquito (the only one that bites by the way) is seeking protein from our blood to develop her eggs. The little buggers appears to prefer certain blood types over others. In a controlled setting conducted by the Institute of Pest Control Technology in Japan, twice as many mosquitoes landed on people with Type O blood than they did on people with Type A.Information from NBC News and Smithsonian.com.