28/11/2018
The answer to the question of why mosquitoes actually make the buzzing noise because this noise is linked to mosquito anatomy and biology.
The buzzing sound that you hear is made by the beating of the mosquitoes wings. The wings of both males and females make a buzzing sound.
Females make a higher pitched sound than males. Most people never hear the male mosquito because it doesn’t bite.
Scientists have discovered that mosquitoes also use the buzz of their wings not only to annoy us or announce their presence to us (okay, this is not scientifically true, but at least it seems like it whenever a mosquito is near us) but also to find suitable mates.
Because female mosquitoes are larger than male mosquitoes and therefore they move their wings slower, other mosquitoes can differ male from female mosquitoes just by the sound they make alone.
