Central Mass Mosquito Control | Mosquito Protection

Your O Negative Blood Could Be…Well, Negative

Universal donors, type O-negative, could be on mosquitoes’ menus. There are positives to having type O-negative blood. Though you can only receive O-negative blood, you can donate to anyone. Ask the American Red Cross, and they’ll tell you.  Your blood type is in high demand.  But can this blood type make you a tastier treat to mosquitoes?

Is that a mosquito bite that’s bugging you?

As part of nature’s plan, all wildlife has ways of protecting themselves and their territory. Insects, such as mosquitoes, bees, ants, fleas, flies, wasps, and arachnids, may bite or sting if you get close. Most won’t bother you if you don’t bother them. But not all. Mosquitoes will bite you because that’s part of their grand plan. They need blood meals to reproduce.

I just swatted a mosquito. Whose blood is that? What if it’s diseased?

Scientifically speaking, mosquitoes do not transmit blood-borne pathogens from person to person. They might bite a human, who is infected with HIV or hepatitis, but they do not pass those diseases to the next person.