Grinning inside a little. Every family should have mosquito meat. In my family it's my wife, so. ... now i'm laughing inside...
Mosquitoes will bite me if she's not there. See last paragraph though.
But in fact mosquitoes are attracted to you because you exhale carbon dioxide. Can't do much about that except die, and then the rest of the insect world bites, and your reaction time in SC suffers. Not a great solution. But why specifically your legs? That is because you sweat, and there they are attracted by pheromones. They might be attracted by the pheromones in soap, or body sprays, or produced naturally. They also attack from below, which is why your legs are being stung.
As kind of "urban myth", what
@maynard wrote about garlic seems to work in some people. It's really worth a try. If the soap you use causes it, try a natural unscented soap. And if that doesn't work, you have a great career ahead of you as a mosquito attractant at parties. Actually you look like you're bare footed... wear shoes too, not sandals. That'll reduce the number that you attract. Beyond that you don't have many options. Wear light colored clothing. they can get you through even denem, and the darker the worse they will attack. Wear light colored clothing, like white and offwhite.
I learned this in Northern Canada, right into the arctic. Fishing and hunting in northern lakes and forests. It's awful there, and mosquitos aren't the worst. Black Flies are thick like fog in some places and they aren't just stinging you, they're taking chunks of fresh meat. Now, the difference between me and my wife is partly that she wears sandals and dark clothing. Fashionable. I on the other hand, actually I've become kind of immune to mosquitos. They do bite my wife more frequently, but they still bite me. I usually don't feel it, and they don't itch much, most of the time not at all. I'm not sure why, but I'll take it.
