The best way to keep mosquitoes from finding you is to take a bath or shower to wash off body odor and sweat using soap that doesn't have perfume in it. Avoid putting on perfume, scented powers or sprays. If mosquitoes can't smell you, they will only find you by sight, and mosquitoes have only average vision. Speaking of sight, mosquitoes seem to be attracted to some colors more than others. Some studies have shown that people wearing bright colors or navy blue are bitten more than people wearing drab colors, such as khaki, and lighter colors such as white and pastels.
Mosquitoes tend to bite more at dawn and dusk.
They also are more active in shady moist spots, like forests and near bushes, than bright sunny spots, like beaches and unshaded playgrounds. Places where there is a lot of standing water like swamps and bogs are perfect breeding grounds for mosquitoes, so wear lots of repellent or cover yourself in mosquito netting before your explore these areas. By the way, female mosquitoes, the ones that bite, are almost deaf, so those high-tech sonic mosquito repellents probably won't work. Only about one percent of all the bugs zapped by these zappers are mosquitoes. Other bugs, such as moths, are actually attracted to them so, even though it may be reassuring to hear the crackle of a flying fiend being fried, bug zappers often increase the number of bugs in the area.