To the eye of a tsetse fly, it's a stationary cow. And the flies, which feed on the blood of animals, receive a lethal dose of insecticide when they land on the fabric. But now the scientists have ...

An innovative tsetse fly repellent technology in Kenya has enabled ... the collars have helped him graze his cows closer to the park fence in the early morning and late evening without any ...

According to Rajinder K. Saini — a principal scientist at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) which developed the collar — up to three million cattle die each year from ...

They then filled tiny amounts of the tsetse fly-repellent substance into plastic containers that were tied to the cattle with a collar. From then on the cattle exhaled the smell of the unloved ...

which cause sleeping sickness in humans and a version of the disease known as nagana in cattle and other livestock. A tsetse fly pulls out its mouthpart after drinking blood from a human arm. (Josh ...

And speaking of meals, the tsetse fly's diet has a lot in common with that of vampires. Like bedbugs and fleas, tsetse flies are hematophagous, which is a fancy way of saying they feed on blood.

Tsetse gene sequence adds to researchers' knowledge of the fly's biology and behaviour. Public-health workers are one step closer to stamping out a debilitating and potentially fatal disease known ...

Finally, Mr. Jack's own report of 1926 on the “Tsetse Fly in the Lomagundi District”, largely quoted by the Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire (1926), the ...