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Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by Achor1111(m): 10:17pm On Apr 30, 2020 |
Why do mosquitoes buzz in your ears? The short answer: They can’t help it. Mosquitoes’ wings make that annoying buzz or whining sound whenever they fly. When they circle your head, looking for a place to land and bite, their buzz sounds louder whenever they’re close to your ear. Both male and female mosquitoes buzz, since they both have wings, but you probably won’t notice the whine of the males, because they don’t want to drink your blood. So they stay away from your ears, eating nectar, while the females come near to annoy you. Scientists have discovered that the buzz of mosquitoes is more than just a way to annoy you. It’s actually important to help them find suitable mates. Since female mosquitoes are larger, they flap their wings slower, and males know it. They use the distinctive pitch of the females’ buzz to recognize them. Louis M. Roth, who studied yellow fever mosquitoes for the U.S. Army during World War II, noticed that males ignored females whenever the females were quietly resting, but whenever the females were flying, and therefore buzzing, the males wanted to mate with them. The males even wanted to mate with recordings of female mosquitoes or tuning forks that vibrated at the same pitch. “A delightful African folk tale for anyone who hates the sound of mosquitoes buzzing in their ears. Kids will learn the lesson not to gossip, and they’ll enjoy looking for the little pink bird in the colorful pictures too.” Dr. Christopher Johnston of Baltimore, Maryland had already discovered how mosquitoes can hear, almost a hundred years before. He found that they have an organ in their antenna, which was named the Johnston organ after him. It allows them to recognize the buzz of other mosquitoes. It took other scientists to discover exactly what made the sound. Though you hear the buzz whenever mosquitoes fly, it’s not actually caused by the wings beating against the air. There’s an organ at the base of the wings which scrapes and makes the sound when the wings move. British entomologists A. E. Shipley and Edwin Wilson published a paper describing it in 1902, which they called “On a Possible Stridulating Organ in the Mosquito.” Stridulating means to make noise, and the toothed organ they found made noise as it rubbed against itself, while the wings moved. By the middle of the 20th Century, scientists had figured out that mosquitoes have special organs to whine or buzz as they fly, that other mosquitoes can hear the noise, and that the buzz of female mosquitoes makes males want to mate with them. It wasn’t until more recently that researchers Gabriella Gibson and Ian Russell discovered that mosquitoes actually change their buzz to “sing” to each other before they mate. They discovered that when males and females flew nearby, they altered the pitch of their buzz to match each other, and if they matched well enough, they mated. Cornell researchers tried the same experiment with mosquitoes which carry the dangerous disease dengue, and found the same thing. As scientists learn more about why mosquitoes buzz, they may be able to use that knowledge to help keep them from mating. Fewer mosquitoes mean fewer mosquito bites, and fewer diseases being spread. For example, in this article, researcher Lauren Cator suggests that if scientists can make sterile male mosquitoes who “sing” to females just as well as fertile males, the females will choose the sterile males, and won’t produce fertile eggs. There are a few myths about the mosquitoes you hear buzzing near your ears. Some people say that mosquitoes which buzz, don’t bite. Well, that’s true. As long as they’re buzzing, they’re flying, so they won’t bite you. But as soon as they land, look out! Does anybody actually enjoy the sound of mosquitoes buzzing? Apparently, teenagers do! With what scientists are learning about mosquitoes, I suppose it’s fitting that teenagers are using an electronic sound called a mosquito buzz as their mating “call.” Cornell researchers have found out that mosquitoes not only buzz in your ears, they buzz in each others’ “ears” too 1 Share
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Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by Enoch07: 10:22pm On Apr 30, 2020 |
good read.. but women eh can be annoying at times 1 Like |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by Odinvahala: 10:30pm On Apr 30, 2020 |
Have made this search like 100 times on Google |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by Plut01: 10:34pm On Apr 30, 2020 |
"The males even wanted to mate with recordings of female mosquitoes or tuning forks that vibrated at the same pitch." So male mosquitoes also fall for females green light just like humans. Oga ooo 1 Like |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by DanseMacabre(m): 10:40pm On Apr 30, 2020 |
Great read. I always used to think it was because the mosquito wooed the ear and all that... |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by winosport: 11:01pm On Apr 30, 2020 |
mosquitoes make me believe that the concept of blood sucking vampires could be true |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by directonpc(m): 4:39am On May 01, 2020 |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by Achor1111(m): 7:26am On May 01, 2020 |
the buzzing is very annoying |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by Denique(f): 8:45am On May 01, 2020 |
Very annoying creature... Roaches are even worse... I can't stand them cos of their irregular flying patterns and smell |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by Manager001: 1:12pm On May 01, 2020 |
9ice one op.
l have been curious about this. |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by Achor1111(m): 6:46am On May 02, 2020 |
Manager001:10q |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by Kokoboss: 3:56pm On Jun 21, 2020 |
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Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by ArturoR: 5:37pm On Jun 21, 2020 |
I asked myself this question last night Thank you OP |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by GODSENT252: 1:47pm On Aug 24, 2020 |
Achor1111:sir,i saw you mention selling a tecno h5 for 6k on a thread. How about i pay 3k and waybill money. Am in ogun state |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by Achor1111(m): 3:59pm On Aug 24, 2020 |
GODSENT252:Make it 5k |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by GODSENT252: 4:21pm On Aug 24, 2020 |
Achor1111:Sir,please i need phone sir,please consider sir. I will pay the transport sir |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by Achor1111(m): 4:28pm On Aug 24, 2020 |
GODSENT252:Am in Aba. I don't know if vehicles going to lag stops around your area in Ogun.but l know of sagamu,. The 3k is not good |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by GODSENT252: 4:32pm On Aug 24, 2020 |
Achor1111:Chai aba? Aba far,drivers will charge,me too will take transport to go collect it. And also the phone version don old sir. |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by Achor1111(m): 4:34pm On Aug 24, 2020 |
GODSENT252:Yes, very far, and the version is old 4.1 |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by GODSENT252: 4:50pm On Aug 24, 2020 |
Achor1111:so bro,what do you say |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by Achor1111(m): 4:54pm On Aug 24, 2020 |
GODSENT252:Where is your area in Ogun, for possible collection. You can bring 4500 |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by GODSENT252: 5:11pm On Aug 24, 2020 |
Achor1111:i am in ilaro. Make it 4k. I pay 1k for transport thats 5k. Hope its in good condition |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by Achor1111(m): 12:00am On Aug 25, 2020 |
GODSENT252:Transport is costly bro. Even if is 4k plus transport, is like 6k. Too costly. Look for phone within your environment, Lagos self is cheaper compared to Aba |
Re: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Your Ears by chukasson(m): 8:05am On Aug 25, 2020 |
because of diz mosquito noise, in my PPA, I go thru out d nite without sleeping......I kill more Dan 7 of dem in d nite....very annoying. |
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