穿哪種顏色的衣服最招蚊子？

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.

很多因素都可能導致你成為“招蚊體質(zhì)”，但是新研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，你穿的衣服顏色也起到了一定作用。

That’s the main takeaway from a new study published in the journal Nature Communications.
這是發(fā)表在《自然•通訊》期刊上的一項新研究得出的主要結(jié)論。

For the study, researchers from the University of Washington tracked the behavior of female mosquitoes when they were given different types of visual and scent cues.
來自華盛頓大學的研究人員在這項研究中追蹤了雌性埃及伊蚊在被給予不同視覺和氣味線索時的行為模式。

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.
如果你不了解蚊子是如何覓食的，這里要告訴你，蚊子最開始察覺到你的存在是因為聞到了你呼出的二氧化碳。

When there was no odor like carbon dioxide in the test chambers, the mosquitoes pretty much ignored the colored dot, no matter what hue it was.
如果試驗箱里沒有二氧化碳的氣味，蚊子很可能會對彩色圓點視而不見，不論是什么顏色的圓點。

But once researchers sprayed carbon dioxide in the chamber, they flew toward dots that were red, orange, black, or cyan.
但是研究人員只要在試驗箱里噴灑二氧化碳，蚊子就會飛向紅色、桔色、黑色或藍綠色的圓點。

Dots that were green, blue, or purple were ignored.
與此同時，蚊子對綠色、藍色或紫色的圓點視而不見。