Mosquitoes prefer fat people more than skinny people as fat people or overweight people and obese people exhale more carbon dioxide or CO2 than skinny people do and fat people, overweight people and obese people also often have higher body temperatures, which also makes them easier to detect from a distance.
The fatty acids on larger peoples skin also play a role in why mosquitoes are more attracted to fat or larger people, although it's also more the overall metabolic provide and scents of these people that attract the mosquitoes and not just the weight.
Larger bodies, women who are pregnant and people that have just exercised also produce more CO2, which is a primary attractant for mosquitoes.
Specific fatty acids on the skin significantly increase the mosquitoes attractiveness to you and dark colors also absorb heat and make you more appealing.
And people with Type O blood are also more attractive to mosquitoes than other blood types.
Native Americans used aromatic plants like mint, sweetgrass and even pineapple weed to repel mosquitoes.
The Native Americans often burned the mint, sweetgrass and pineapple weed to create pastes and also sachets, alongside the use of natural oils from animals like alligators and sharks.
Native Americans also used strategic locations like windy hilltops when burning these aromatic plants to repel mosquitoes.
The Native Americans also used strong smelling herbs like yarrow, applied mud or even used smoke from burning of cedar and other plants for protection from mosquitoes.
Sweetgrass also known as Hierochloe dorata" is a highly effective aromatic grass that contains coumarin and phytol, which is also used in clothing and woven into mats and even burned to create repellent smoke, which has similar potency to DEET, which makes it a great natural mosquito repellent.
Pineapple Weed, which is also known as Matricaria discoidea contains essential oil that contains compounds like alpha-terpineol which offer significant protection and is also comparable to DEET.
Mint and Yarrow are crushed and made into pastes and or applied as poultices to the skin to repel mosquitoes.
And cedar is also used for it's smoke which keeps mosquitoes away and other insects.
The animal fats like alligator grease, shark liver oil and bear fat was also applied to the Native Americans skin to deter and repel mosquitoes and other insects.
Burning certain plants and even using smoke pipes created a barrier from mosquitoes for the Native Americans.
And setting up the camps on windy hillsides and away from still water like swamps was also a key strategy of the Native Americans to deter and repel mosquitoes.
Smearing mud on the skin of the Native Americans also provided a physical barrier from the mosquitoes as well as camouflage.
You can also keep mosquitoes away from you when sitting outside by using a box fa, large fan or even an oscillating fan as the fan will keep the air moving and blow away any mosquitoes that are trying to bite you.
There's also a mosquito trapper now that uses propane that will attract the mosquitoes into the device that sits outside and the mosquitoes will die when they enter the propane mosquito trap.