Or is it that the victims pest warning system is currently winning the biological arms race, in which case how are mosquitoes able to successfully reproduce? Or is it that mosquitoes have evolved such that their spawning numbers offset the difficulty they have biting?

Biology is hard.

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    6 hours ago

    You might be conflating with the housefly which will throw up on food it lands on because the enzymes break it down so they can suck it up.