The 2015 Russian Mosquito Festival is set to take place from Friday to Sunday in the Perm region city of Berezniki, where spectators will gather by the banks of a municipal pond to take part in a series of unusual events, according to its website. “The girls will stand for 20 minutes in shorts and dresses while they are bitten, and then we will count the number of bites,” organizer Natalya Paramonova told Metro, adding that in her experience “mosquitoes bite people … who eat well, don't drink and don't smoke.” 
 
 Another competition, called “Mosquito Legs,” will rank women based on how thin their legs are, Metro reported.
– Mosquitoes: the scourge of every corner of the Earth except for Berezniki, Russia. That town is gearing up for its three-day Russian Mosquito Festival, which begins on Friday. The BBC picked up an Interfax report on the event, which was founded in 2013 as a bit of a "joke" festival. But this element is reportedly for real: There's a "Most Delicious Girl" contest in which shorts- or dress-clad women compete to see who can attract the most mosquito bites in 20 minutes. A previous winner racked up more than 100, as determined by a set of judges that includes a doctor, and the fest's organizer says those who have the best luck "eat well, don't drink, and don't smoke." The Moscow Times reports 3,000 people are expected, and also flags a less-than-PC-sounding component: the "Mosquito Legs" contest, in which the thinness of women's legs is judged.