Mosqitos hum at the pitch of Western scale music!

[stanteau]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7814404.stm

Basically, mosquitos hum to our Western tuning scale, does this mean we stumbled onto something.... holy with our scale if it's found in nature?

[Easy Skanking]

Quote:Basically, mosquitos hum to our Western tuning scale...

How do you come to this conclusion?

According to the article:

Quote:Fever pitch

The amorous couple began to beat their wings together at a matching frequency - 1,200 hertz.

This love song is a "harmonic", or multiple, of their individual frequencies - 400 Hz for the female and 600 Hz for the male.

In the western equal temperament scale of A=440Hz, none of those frequencies (pitches) are actually notes. I'll list the closest...

Note......Freq (Hz).....Wavelength (cm)
G#4/Ab4....415.30.....83.1
A4..............440.00.....78.4

D5.............587.33.....58.7
D#5/Eb5....622.25..... 55.4

D6............1174.66.... 29.4
D#6/Eb6...1244.51.....27.7

[drew hempel]

What the article demonstrates is a 3 to 2 ratio for the male and female which is actually NON-Western tuning, as I've detailed. The Western scale is based on logarithms, not natural ratios since the natural ratios spiral out, without a "divide and average" symmetry, the problem called the "Comma of Pythagoras."

So this might be the secret to stopping malaria:

"But we think females are assessing the fitness of males based on how well they can sing."

And 3 to 2 is the complementary opposite ratios of yin and yang from Pythagorean philosophy as well.

In science this is called "biomusic" but, again, it's assumed that the music is WESTERN tuning, even though that's a recent scale -- even the concept of "hertz" or "frequency" or amplitude" are based on "divide and average" math. The foundation of all this is the GOLDEN RATIO -- which is reproduced here with singing molluscs -- it's the "vanishing meditator" of science, as I've detailed in my research.

http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2009/01/musical-molluscs.html

[stanteau]

My bad, a friend told me about this and I basically just mimed him in a hurry to post it