Are you looking to learn about the male versus the female mosquitoes? Do you want to know which ones bite and which one don’t?
Well then, you’re in the right place!
In this guide you’ll learn:
- What Are Male Mosquitoes?
- Do Male Mosquitoes Bite?
- What Are Female Mosquitoes?
- Do Female Mosquitoes Bite?
- Female vs Male Mosquitoes?
- Do Male or Female Mosquitoes Make a Buzz Sound?
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There has always been a lot of confusion about male and female mosquitoes, mainly because they’re so small. We want to clear up that confusion once and for all.
There are some differences between them in their appearance, although not to the naked eye. There is at least one major difference in their diet, although you can’t tell just by visual inspection. And finally, there are minor differences in the sounds they make, although not to the untrained ear.
There are some very real differences between the males and females though and if you work at it, you can exploit those differences to eradicate them or drive them out of your back yard.
There’s a lot of information to cover, so let’s get started!
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What Are Male Mosquitoes?
Male mosquitoes are the male of the mosquito species. Outwardly, in terms of size, shape, and coloration there is virtually no difference between the male and female mosquitoes. None that are visible without magnification, anyway.
Proboscis and Flagellum
Under magnification though, one difference rapidly becomes apparent. Mosquitoes have a long, slender feeding tube that extends outward from their mouth. Technically, it’s a kind of antenna. That antenna or tube is called aproboscis。在男性上，长鼻有羽毛外观。它也可以准确地描述为浓密或毛茸茸的。
The little bushy hairs on the male proboscis, called flagellum, are extraordinarily sensitive to sound vibrations. The sound from the beating of the female’s wings triggers a reaction in the flagellum, which sends a signal to the mosquito that it has found a female.
雄性蚊子有一种叫做约翰斯顿的器官的东西，可以区分翅膀的声音和速度，以确定它是另一个蚊子，雄性还是女性，等等。触发鞭毛的其他声音被忽略或分类为要逃避的威胁。重要的是要注意，蚊子没有听到声音，他们在回应空气中的振动。
Life Span Of The Male Mosquito
Thelife cycle of mosquitoesis simple. An adult female will lay approximately 200 eggs at a time in stale or stagnant water. Within a day or two, the eggs will hatch into larva, sometimes called wigglers. They’re called wigglers because that is how they swim. An interesting point here is that wigglers need air to breath. If you pour a thin film of oil on top of the water it will keep them from getting any air and they’ll drown.
The larva goes through 4 growth stages called instars. Each instar is larger than the last one, but otherwise, they look the same. The last instar is called the pupae stage.
In the pupae stage, they look like miniature shrimps and theyavoid predatorsby tumbling erratically through the water. For this reason, they are often called tumblers. A day or two later a full-grown mosquito emerges and flies away. From the time the egg is laid until the adult mosquito emerges is only 7-10 days.
雄性蚊子之后非常短暂。他们只在理想条件下生活了大约一周。通常，他们的生活会更少。那几天是他们找到女性和伴侣的唯一机会。在那之后，他们是个子手。
Breaks your heart, doesn’t it?
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Do Male Mosquitoes Bite?
In a word, no. Male mosquitoes eat sugary fluids, nothing else. Using their feathery proboscis they can get their nourishment from the nectar of flowering plants or sweet juices. If you have a hummingbird feeder with sugar water in it, you’ll be feeding the mosquitoes too so give some thought to moving it away from the house or eliminating it altogether.
如果他们发现靠近您家的营养，那就是他们的所在地。如果他们从您的房子里找到它，那就是在这种情况下的地方。这应该告诉您如何将蚊子远离您的房屋 - 将鲜花，水果和蜂鸟喂食器尽可能远离您的房屋。
It’s not a hundred percent guaranteed to keep them away all the time, but every little bit helps.
What Are Female Mosquitoes?
Female mosquitoesare the egg-laying half of the mosquito species. To the naked eye, there’s no way to tell them apart from the male mosquito, but under magnification the differences in their proboscis are obvious.
Proboscis and Flagellum
The female proboscis is long and slender. It has a needle-like appearance without any of the feathery or bushy flagellum of the male proboscis. They don’t need to go looking for the males because they know the males will chase them down.
Males chasing females. Actually sounds kinda familiar, doesn’t it?
Life Span Of The Female Mosquito
Thelife cycle for the female mosquito与男性蚊子相同；鸡蛋，幼虫和p。但是，当女性从p中而不是雄性出现时，它会改变。
Once they leave the pupae stage, their life span is longer than the male life span. Under ideal conditions they can live for up to four weeks or longer, laying up to 200 eggs at a time every few days. It only takes one mating to fertilize them for the rest of their short lives.
Do Female Mosquitoes Bite?
Yes! Females are the ones that bite and leave itchy spots all over you. Or more accurately, they’re the bloodsuckers, the ones that suck your blood through their proboscis like drinking a milkshake through a straw. They eat sugary fluids – nectar and sweet juices – the same as their male counterparts, but once they’ve mated, they need protein in order to produce their eggs. Without a source of protein, they won’t be able to reproduce.
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Female mosquitoes are drawn to sources of heat and carbon dioxide, both of which human beings produce simply by being alive. When they detect heat and carbon dioxide it tells them there is a warm-blooded mammal available for them to feed on.
顺便说一句，这就是为什么蚊子经常在耳朵周围嗡嗡作响的原因。您的耳朵上有很多未透明的表面积。其中的微小毛细血管散发出了很大的热量，它们靠近您的嘴和鼻子，二氧化碳来自碳含量。
Voilà! Instant mosquito magnet.
After each feeding, the female will rest, usually on the underside of a leaf or branch until she is ready to lay a fresh batch of eggs. She’ll find a pool of stagnant water with bacteria and algae growing in it and lay her eggs. The larva will feed on the bacteria and algae while they’re growing, while the female flies off to suck some more blood in order to produce another batch of eggs.
This cycle continues for the rest of her life. Depending on the weather conditions and available blood supplies, a female mosquito can lay over 1000 eggs in her brief lifetime.
Female vs Male Mosquitoes?
The major differences and one similarity, between male and female mosquitoes can be broken down into a simple chart.
| Characteristic | Male | Female |
| Proboscis | Feathery Appearance | 薄而苗条 |
| Bite People | 不 | Yes |
| Need Sugar | Yes | Yes |
| Lifespan | 7 days | 2-4 weeks |
男性或女性蚊子会发出嗡嗡作响的声音吗？
Both sexes make a buzzing or whining noise but there are differences between the sounds they make.
蚊子有一个翅膀。翅膀是阿尔most as long as the mosquitoes themselves. The high-speed flapping of their wings when they fly creates a disturbance in the air that produces the characteristic whine you hear when mosquitoes are around. This means that mosquitoes only make a whining noise when they’re flying. That noise is called a flight tone and all flying insects have it to one degree or another.
If mosquitoes are stationary, either resting or feeding, they won’t make any sound at all. They have to be flying in order to make any sound. That sound is how they communicate with each other, and it enables the male to track down the female so they can mate.
男性和女性的声音略有不同。雄性每秒拍打翅膀约450-700次。女性的速度较慢，约为每秒350-550次。当在赫兹（Hertz）测量时，它们产生的声音意味着雄性在约575Hz的嗡嗡声中发出嗡嗡作响的声音，而女性则在约450Hz时发出嗡嗡声。这些在音乐秤上分别为上C和上F。
Final Thoughts On Male vs Female Mosquitoes
As with all creatures great and small, it takes two to tango, a male and a female. Without both, the species will die out. If you can eliminate the male mosquito population around your house, the females who do all the biting will soon die out as well.
由于两性都取决于含糖液体的生存，因此将花朵和开花植物远离您的房屋是一个不错的起点。请记住，雌性只会吸血即可产生鸡蛋。对于自己来说，她仍然需要男性所做的同样的事情。
Eradicating all mosquitoes in the world will never be achieved, but there are a lot of things you can do to keep them away from you. Citronella torches are a good place to start to drive them away. There are also a lot of mosquito repellents available that do a good job, as well as a number of excellent mosquito pesticides you should look into.
Life Span Of The Female Mosquito
The life cycle for the female mosquito is identical to the male mosquito; egg, larva, and pupae. But then it changes when a female emerges from the pupae instead of a male. Once they leave the pupae stage, their life span is longer than the male life span. Under ideal conditions they can live for up to four weeks or longer, laying up to 200 eggs at a time every few days. It only takes one mating to fertilize them for the rest of their short lives.
