Mosquitos like people who drink beer: study

Beer can get you buzzed — and not in the good way.

Dutch scientists have discovered that mosquitoes prefer the blood of people who’ve knocked back a few brews, among other habits.

The team, helmed by Felix Hol of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, set out to see “why some people attract more mosquito bites than others,” per a paper uploaded to BioRXiv.

To get to the bottom of the skeeter’s apparent predilection for “red ale,” researchers brought thousands of female mosquitoes to Lowlands, an annual music festival in the Netherlands, Phys.org reported. 3

The set-up a pop-up lab and recruited 500 revelers from the event, who they asked questions pertaining to diet, hygiene and behavior.

These human guinea pigs then placed their arms in a custom-made box full of the