When I go for a walk in the woods, I don't bother with bug repellant. I don't need to because I have a bug magnet -- my husband. The biting insects see/sense him coming a mile away and ring the dinner bell. "Fresh, A- blood....come'n get it!"

I always feel sorry for him as the girls and I walk alongside him -- seemingly invisible to the blood-suckers. Poor Dan usually spends our entire walk slapping at deer flies, mosquitos and various other biting, flying insects. He resembles Pig Pen from the Peanuts comic strip with all these bugs buzzing around his head. I can't help but chuckle at the site. He is never amused.

Turns out there may be a reason they love my husband -- he smells manly. At least that's what reasearchers are saying about those most-annoying of summertime pests -- mosquitos. They've found that, indeed, some people are more attractive to mosquitos -- particularly those with "high concentrations of steroids or cholesterol on their skin surface." Now, I don't know about steroids -- my husband's no muscle-head, buff, gym jock, but....

This article was on AOL's homepage a day or two ago & I found it really interesting. You can read it here: http://aolsvc.health.webmd.aol.com/content/Article/90/100719.htm?pagenumber
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So do you think Barry Bonds is one giant walking mosquito bite?