Mosquitoes flap their wings not just to stay aloft but for two other critical purposes: to generate sound and to point that buzz in the direction of a potential mate, researchers at Johns Hopkins ...

NEW ORLEANS — People in parts of New Orleans Thursday night might hear a loud buzzing sound, courtesy of the city of New Orleans. New Orleans residents across several neighborhoods on the east side of ...

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 high-pitched whine of a mosquito is annoying, but scientists have developed an app that uses that sound to detect dangerous mosquitoes. Mosquitoes kill hundreds of thousands of people each year by ...

Male mosquitoes find mates by listening for the buzzing sounds produced by flying females. Now researchers have developed a technique using a serotonin inhibiting compound that disrupts the hearing of ...

In the heat of a summer night, you wonder why you are still awake and why that lone mosquito is buzzing in your ear as you blindly swat in the air. Or while engrossed in a film, street sounds wafting ...

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. Why mosquitoes make buzzing ...

The social media comments about the Bailey Zimmerman show at Wilmington's Live Oak Bank Pavilion last weekend were overwhelmingly positive. But a lot of the buzz about the rising country music star's ...

Experts say mosquitoes seem to be buzzing around in higher-than-usual numbers in Southcentral Alaska this spring. “I would say this is a high mosquito density year,” said Matt Bowser, who works for ...

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