response to stimulus senses and flight response during mating hearing response during mating Considering as a means of sound production, the wing beat has a very low efficiency, and the distance over which the flight sounds of female mosquitoes can be detected by conspecific males probably is not greater than about 30cm. IDOMAL:0002256 IDOMAL:0002256 The signal to which male mosquitoes respond is the female's flight tone, and this a flying female can never switch off. idomal_namespace