You might be able to hide from mosquitoes by avoiding the color red

You’re likely better off draping yourself in shades of green, purple, blue and white.

Basically, they didn’t.

Then the researchers repeated the process with a spritz of CO2.

But mosquitos may not be parsing colors the way you might assume.

However, the colors to beware of all have an objective commonality: longer wavelengths on the visible spectrum.

That brings us to some bad news.

Human skin, regardless of pigment, gives off long wavelengths similar to those of red-orange hues.

Sure enough, the green glove was enough to function as a disguise, leaving the bugs uninterested.

There’s also somewhat bittersweet news.