The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single burst of hot weather, researchers at the University of Bristol and Stellenbosch University in South Africa have found. The ...

Scientists have identified a volatile pheromone emitted by the tsetse fly, a blood-sucking insect that spreads diseases in both humans and animals across much of sub-Saharan Africa. The discovery ...

Tsetse flies are bloodthirsty. Natives of sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies can transmit the microbe Trypanosoma when they take a blood meal. That’s the protozoan that causes African sleeping sickness ...

The tsetse fly might look like an ordinary insect at first glance, but it’s responsible for spreading one of Africa’s most notorious diseases: sleeping sickness. Found across parts of sub-Saharan ...

Fighting the tsetse fly using irradiation involves rearing and then releasing in the environment sterile male flies to mate with wild females producing no offspring, reducing the population over time.

Kenya Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Council has been supporting farmers to spray their animals. Sprayed animals act as deadly traps for tsetse flies. Dr Othieno Joseph I have a concern and I ...

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The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single burst of hot weather, researchers have found. The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single ...

Geoff Attardo receives funding from National Institutes of Health (#1R21AI128523-01A1 - Unraveling Intersexual Interactions in Tsetse) and the Pacific Southwest Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne ...

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