Festival season is here—and apparently, mosquitoes got tickets too.

If you have ever been the person in your friend group who ends a summer concert covered in large, itchy welts while everyone else goes home bite-free, you are not imagining things. Some people really are mosquito magnets.

A new study, aptly titled “Blood, Sweat, and Beers,” set out to uncover what makes certain humans irresistible to mosquitoes. But instead of a sterile lab or a rainforest expedition, this experiment took place at one of the Netherlands’ biggest music festivals; Lowlands, a three-day party with 65,000 attendees, questionable hygiene and plenty of beer. In other words: the perfect breeding ground for this science experiment.

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