Re: Talking to mosquitoes

["Ray Mansell" BCTess]

I did a little more listening and some Googling.

Google found this <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1088611/>,
which includes a link to an interesting paper (Active auditory mechanics in
mosquitoes) which in turn shows female mosquitoes to be particularly
sensitive to sounds at around 250Hz, and males at around 450Hz.

Looking at a spectrogram of your recording, there are two distinct bands of
mosquito sounds, one centered at around 350Hz, the other at 700Hz. When you
speak, the frequency of each of these bands increases, then falls back to
its original level. When you whistle, and when the birds call, nothing
happens.

The obvious next step would be to play your recorded voice to them through
a loudspeaker, to see if it has the same effect.

Ray...