As they feed, they can transmit microscopic parasites called trypanosomes, which cause sleeping sickness in humans and a version of the disease known as nagana in cattle and other livestock. A tsetse ...

Always hungry for blood, the tsetse fly packs a painful bite ... farmers to rear less productive but more trypanosome-resistant cattle,” said co-author Matthew Berriman, a pathogen geneticist ...

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 ...

Despite what you might think, the ascension of the tsetse fly to a native-born killer was serendipitous, in a bad way. In 1887, the Italians were waging war with Somalia and purchase cattle from India ...

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 ...

The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single ... particularly sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle. Lead author Dr. Hester Weaving from Bristol's School ...

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. Whether from a human, a cow ...

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 ...