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 ...

A banner overhead celebrates the “foreign” cattle, which arrived in April. Unlike the native animals, they lack natural resistance to the tsetse fly’s infectious nip. “They could not have ...

The tsetse fly has a second, perhaps more devastating, effect. The parasite it carries weakens and kills cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and horses — meaning that for thousands of years African ...

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 ...

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 ...