Olabimpe Olaide, a Nigerian scholar who conducted the study as part of her PhD work at Icipe, said that the research established that zebras produce certain scents that repel
tsetse flies.
Kgosi
Tsetse said he was hopeful that the initiative would be continued as it was of great benefit to the people of Otse.
Under the drive, the
tsetse flies are also trapped using special devices placed in bushes.
James, from North Berwick, East Lothian, has been fascinated by bugs since he was a child and in the course of his work as the scientist he has been bitten by mosquitos but the
tsetse fly is one of the deadliest in the world.
brucei gambiense DNA from isolates PT41 and B014 [12] initially isolated in Ivory Coast and Cameroon were used for analytical sensitivity and to spike
tsetse fly samples, respectively.
How many of us have been eaten alive by
tsetse flies as we were forced to drive slowly through the bush?
Meanwhile, an Ethiopian team has developed a drone that helps eradicate
Tsetse flies, which carry disease.
Clare Vale, the daughter of the eminent entomologist Dr Glyn Vale who has been at the forefront of
tsetse control research for four decades enlightens us that the track was built around 1998 by her father to study movement as a
tsetse attractant.
They cover tephritid fruit flies, Hessian flies,
tsetse flies, mosquitoes, beetles, silk moths, parasitoid wasps, bedbugs, aphids, spittlebugs, grasshoppers, and ticks.
The best explanation for the iconic stripes' function turns out to be discouraging bloodthirsty tabanid flies and
tsetse flies, Caro and his colleagues report April 1 in Nature Communications.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Mining the genome of the disease-transmitting
tsetse fly, researchers have revealed the genetic adaptions that allow it to have such unique biology and transmit disease to both humans and animals.