This is a tsetse fly target in Kenya. The sheets of dark cloth are coated with the scent of livestock to attract the tsetse and insecticide to kill it. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

In African oral tradition, proverbs are not just witty expressions, they are repositories of ancestral wisdom. One of the ...

The Kenya Tsetse Fly and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Council (KENTTEC) has suspended a recruitment process after the state ...

The central cloth panel and the side panels of netting are all one meter tall and are covered on fine wires which electrocute tsetse contacting them. The flies then fall to be retained in the ...

In a study published in the journal eLife, lead author Willie Weir said they discovered that the tsetse fly existed for thousands of years only by subdividing itself without having sex and is now ...

Sprayed animals act as deadly traps for tsetse flies. Dr Othieno Joseph I have a concern and I think given your links with the agency tasked with eradication of tsetse flies, you are well placed ...

analysis of various transgenic fruit fly lines. In addition, the Tsetse Research Group is involved in an evaluation of an X ray irradiator (RS2400) as an alternative to gamma radiation for the ...

IT has been known for a long time that the application of a ligature posterior to the brain in the larva of the blowfly, Calliphora erythrocephala Meig., prevents the pupation of the posterior ...

GC data was used to construct phenetic comparisons of 26 species and subspecies of tsetse flies using dried museum and fresh specimens. /// Cuando se usó la cromatografía de gas (CG), los componentes ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic parasites borne by insects such as the tsetse fly.