"Louise Hume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > only the male mosquitoes sing, to attract the females. >So... if you hear a mosquito "singing", it is a male and will not bite.
I have read this, too, but apparently the mosquitoes in Michigan haven't. I don't know if male and female mosquitoes have a different pitch, but I can definitely hear the ones that bite me. Then again, perhaps this is a "species" thing, with some mosquiteo species quiet and other ones "buzzy". >Louise in Central Virginia, where we have had so much rain in the past >month that the mozzies rise up in clouds when one walks across the lawn. Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com Where we had so much rain in May that we hopefully raised the possibility that all the mosquito "wigglers" (larvae) would be washed out into Lake Michigan! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
