I'm the only one in the house who ends up with a bunch of flea bites if I don't dose the cats the very day they are due to get their flea meds.

Today I was standing in a chicken coop, treating the wood for mites (it's already been sprayed with several scary chemicals that were supposed to get rid of them completely), and I managed to get bit by a northern fowl mite.

I've read that the blood-seeking bugs are attracted to CO2 in breath. Am I breathing too much? More than other people??

Does anyone know more about this, or know anyone who remedied this by something other than slathering their skin with insect repellents?

Maybe they are all just groovin' on my mojo and there is nothing to be done but accept my fate as queen of the bugs.