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Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by lifestyle1(m): 4:07pm On May 18, 2013
Only the male mosquitoes do that cos they don't suck blood.

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Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by Nobody: 4:09pm On May 18, 2013
gluv01:

AAL IZZ WELL...correction...That's my own spelling of it..reminds me of 3idiots grin
best indian film av eva watched lol. grin
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by gluv01(f): 4:11pm On May 18, 2013
murimoney: best indian film av eva watched lol. grin

Right...if the word 'bestest' existed.
Love 'em Indian movies
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by Nobody: 4:11pm On May 18, 2013
The only mosquito that busy in the ear is the female mosquito which has plasmodium that transmit malaria. They breed on clean waters in a pond around d house or flowers containing water. They fly mostly at nite and are attracted to a person breathing out heavy CO2 and a person sleeping with a blue cloth. They hardly ever perch a person wearing a white cloth. The buzzing is to gauge ur depth of sleep so they can bite with easy. They operate at a temperature above room temperature and will die off if room temperature goes less than 5 degrees Celsius. It has a life span of six days within which they die off after biting you. Some how if u are beaten 170 - 200 times by a female mosquito without treatment for malaria then u are said to be in high immune to malaria.

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Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by Deiok(m): 4:12pm On May 18, 2013
i so much hate that sound especially when you slap your ear especting to kill them.
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by Deiok(m): 4:13pm On May 18, 2013
i so much hate that sound especially when you slap your ear trying to kill them.
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by Nobody: 4:18pm On May 18, 2013
gluv01:

Right...if the word 'bestest' existed.
Love 'em Indian movies
i wuld watch it ofa n ofa again if i still av it! cool
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by echibuzor: 4:19pm On May 18, 2013
knockturnal: Its a way of determining if the victim is awake or sleeping. if u dont respond by slapping at them, then they know its safe to feast on your iron rich blood!
thats all!

Ur Signature is hilarious man.. Perfect word gan ni
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by coolzeal(m): 4:19pm On May 18, 2013
Oh! man, i wish i know why but that sound is disgusting and annoying.
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by smile4kenn(m): 4:20pm On May 18, 2013
Once, a mosquito tells a story to a lizard about the farmer digging yams. The lizard was shocked at the long story told to her and had put some sticks into her ears to avoid listening to the story. Due to its bad mood, the lizard did not notice her friend Python. Python was hurt and went to the Rabbit’s cave by mistake. Rabbit got scared and ran from the snake out of fear. A crow sees the rabbit running in the forest and thinks that something dangerous is going to happen, and it screams. The monkey hears the crow screaming and by mistake makes the dead limb from the tree branches fall on an owl, which dies. The mother owl, knowing that the baby owl is dead, droops into sorrow and refuses to call Sun to come out in that morning. The root cause for this problem was investigated by the Lion, and they all found out that the mosquito was responsible for all this. Later, the problem was properly solved by the Lion, but the mosquito feels guilty of being the cause of a big problem. Hence, it always reaches everyone’s ears to ask whether they are still angry.

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Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by Theben(m): 4:20pm On May 18, 2013
Humans talk
Goats bleat
pigs grunt
Dogs bark
Insects(hexapoda) which mosquito happen to belong also have their unique sounds. I believe the sound is what you translate as buzz.
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by davida222(m): 4:22pm On May 18, 2013
Its vry simple, let me tell u a story.
Well Mate i think u got a lot of
scientific answers .now m gonna
tell u a story which is popular in
our area.
once up on a time a mosquito had
a boyfriend and once they were
wondering through the forest and
a quarrel started between them
and mis.mosquito wanna brake-
up...mr.mosquito cried and cried
and cried a lot and said sorry...but
She don`t wanna hear a
single word from the apologetic
mr mosquito and she flied away.for two or
three weeks they didn`t see each
other and mr mosquito committed
suicide..;(..unknown abt her x-
boyfrnd`s death ms.mosquito felt
sorry for her deeds and went in
search of her boyfrnd..bt found
him nowhere .then she began to
ask abt him to every one she
saw..now also the mosquitoes are
searching for their best half asking
to everyone they see..
got y dey r buzzing near your
ears? ..so plz try not to hurt them if
they don`t bite you..they are just
searching for their spouse.. piss out
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by Nobody: 4:23pm On May 18, 2013
macfarland: They operate at a temperature above room temperature and will die off if room temperature goes less than 5 degrees Celsius. It has a life span of six days within which they die off after biting you
come to my area n see miracle mosquitoes! grin
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by donlyone(m): 4:25pm On May 18, 2013
Actually they saying "YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE" in a strange accent.

Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by daik(m): 4:25pm On May 18, 2013
They buzz so that they make front page on Nairaland.
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by Amozism: 4:49pm On May 18, 2013
They make the sound with their wings and they are after the ear wax. Interestingly on the piano the key of the sound made by a mosquito is on key C...
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by ezeagu(m): 4:50pm On May 18, 2013
If I remember correctly, the noisy one is male, and the one that draws blood is female.
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by Nobody: 4:50pm On May 18, 2013
gluv01:

Right...if the word 'bestest' existed.
Love 'em Indian movies
murimoney: best indian film av eva watched lol. grin
murimoney: best indian film av eva watched lol. grin
murimoney: best indian film av eva watched lol. grin
Then you guyz are yet to see "My name is Khan"


My Name is Ijogz and I am not a terrorist cheesy
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by collynzo2(m): 4:56pm On May 18, 2013
The male mosquitoes do it to distract the person, while the female ones suck his or her blood.
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by WackyJ1(m): 5:02pm On May 18, 2013
honeric01: They only do that if you have no part of your body exposed for them to suck from.

They do that to break the guard so as to penetrate on the loose ends.

Just like you use smoke to fish out rats from holes when they hide.

The ear is a very fast way to send a message to the brain.

This is the thing is discovered too on one day that i was able to successfully cover every inch of my body, they immediately went to my ears and i could not rest again. The mosquitoes i believe do that to frustrate you.

The Human that does not want the mosquito to eat, him too will not also sleep.

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Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by ikedaniel15: 5:02pm On May 18, 2013
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Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by kwajahafiz(m): 5:02pm On May 18, 2013
ear wax bro...clean them babies out, and u ll never hear anothe pip, or buzz from the blood suckers.
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by gluv01(f): 5:02pm On May 18, 2013
Ijogz K: Then you guyz are yet to see "My name is Khan"


My Name is Ijogz and I am not a terrorist cheesy
looking it up already cheesy

Funny you
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by Nobody: 5:02pm On May 18, 2013
Ijogz K: Then you guyz are yet to see "My name is Khan"


My Name is Ijogz and I am not a terrorist cheesy
yea u ryt lol. my name is khan and am not a terrorist. autistic guy! cool
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by Magdalee(f): 5:04pm On May 18, 2013
Just checking to knw if u're dead or alive grin
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by ikedaniel15: 5:05pm On May 18, 2013
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Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by Mayor21(m): 5:06pm On May 18, 2013
Aboby go chau dog 4o4!:-(:-):-D;-)8-):-|
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by Ruq: 5:12pm On May 18, 2013
Crap! but i think biology told us its the male squitos that buzz when they lookin for a Hump mate. Thats why they buzz and just so ya know its the females who suck your flippin blood. They also spread the malaria ish.
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by OlaAjia(m): 5:14pm On May 18, 2013
lobito 007: Attention Entomologists: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz Around Human Ears?

This baffles me as much as it annoys me. They seem to never leave until you wave your hands @ 'em, which suggests that they are not just passing by, but deliberately buzzing around your ears. Is it because they derive pleasure doing it or they just want to make their host increasingly uncomfortable after sucking their blood?

Your question is thought provoking...at least, it provoked my thoughts and allowed me to do my little search on Google. From an old research done at Cornell, it turns out there is more complexity to the mosquito buzz than meets the ears.

Check the video out yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F9uVyCInhhI
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by Marvis4real(f): 5:21pm On May 18, 2013
ojofu: they wanna make sure that you are asleep so that they can have their meal in peace.
exactly!
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by segebobo: 5:24pm On May 18, 2013
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.
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

www.mosquitoreviews.com/mosquitoes-buzz-ears.html
Re: Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears? by jmoore(m): 5:42pm On May 18, 2013
It is a female thing, the anopheles mosquitoes is female. Maybe they are "gossiping" grin

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