There is nothing more annoying than trying to sleep at night and hearing the sound of mosquitoes hovering over your head like a band playing music. Here's why they do this. The buzz is mainly a ...

Bzzzz... Do you hear that? That's the sound of a mosquito nearby, its wings fluttering rapidly, generating the sound waves that reach your ears and send signals to ...

Forget a peaceful night’s sleep. The whine of a lone mosquito circling your bedroom can be incredibly frustrating. They’re not just the deadliest animals on the planet, they could be the most annoying ...

The mosquito buzzing that you find annoying and disgusting is irresistible to a male mosquito. The mosquito buzzing that you find annoying and disgusting is irresistible to a male mosquito. He follows ...

The ears of male mosquitoes amplify the sound of an approaching female using a self-generated phantom tone that mimics the female's wingbeats, which increases the ear's acoustic input by a factor of ...

A team of researchers from the Group of Neural Circuit in the Graduate School of Science at Nagoya University in central Japan have developed a new method that may help control mosquito populations.

It might be hard to believe, but those tiny mosquitoes have complex and powerful ears. Males can use their ears to tune into the specific frequency of females in a swarm and locate them to mate.