In an effort to provide an alternative way of controlling disease-carrying mosquitoes, Kahn et al. \cite{kahn1945recording} recorded the sounds of mosquitoes and explored whether they have characteristic ”mating calls” that can be reproduced to attract and kill mosquitoes. They reared colonies of a few species of mosquitoes namely, Anopheles quadrimaculatus, Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopicts, and Culex pipiens. The mosquitoes were placed in a sound proof chamber with controlled temperature and humidity to obtain recordings under conditions similar to the natural environment. Microphones and powerful amplifiers were used to obtain recordings of the faintly audible sounds of mosquitoes. Their results show that the sounds produced by the different species had distinctive characteristics which can be used to distinguish both the gender and the genus of the mosquitoes. Another interesting observation in their experiment was that the noise of a single female causes the males of the same species to react and respond.