The way our bodies react to mosquito saliva motivates us to avoid being bitten. Which must have had evolutionary benefits, keeping us away from diseases.

I.e. all those people that didn’t mind them and never got itchy from mosquito bites appear to have died out. And mosquitoes really wish that wasn’t true.

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    2 months ago

    …motivates us to avoid being bitten…

    nobody ever went “well let’s get bitten by this other species and see what’s up” lol I think all types of bites are avoided as a standard, you don’t need to be movitated to it