冬去春来，天气转暖，再过一阵子蚊虫又要开始“上班”了。如果你是招蚊体质，穿衣服记得避开蚊子最喜欢的颜色，以免被蚊子“独宠”。
While there are plenty of factors that go into how attractive you are to mosquitoes, new research has found the colors you're wearing definitely play a role.
很多因素都可能导致你成为“招蚊体质”，但是新研究发现，你穿的衣服颜色也起到了一定作用。
That's the main takeaway from a new study published in the journal Nature Communications. For the study, researchers from the University of Washington tracked the behavior of female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes when they were given different types of visual and scent1 cues. The researchers put the mosquitoes into small test chambers3 and exposed them to different things, like a colored dot or person's hand.
这是发表在《自然·通讯》期刊上的一项新研究得出的主要结论。来自华盛顿大学的研究人员在这项研究中追踪了雌性埃及伊蚊在被给予不同视觉和气味线索时的行为模式。研究人员把蚊子放在小试验箱中，然后让它们接触不同的东西，比如一个彩色圆点或一个人的手。
In case you're not familiar with how mosquitoes find food, they first detect that you're around by smelling carbon dioxide from your breath. That prompts them to scan for certain colors and visual patt
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