Sentences with phrase «as tsetse flies»
Some bugs, such as tsetse flies, can bite through thin fabric.
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Wolbachia appears even more attractive considering its potential application in controlling other insect - borne diseases, such as malaria and the tsetse fly's sleeping sickness.
Lead author Paul - Yannick Bitome - Essono, from the National Center for Scientific and Technological Research, France, explains: «We thought the tsetse fly might be a good candidate in our study, as both sexes feed on blood, they are large and easily trapped, present in large numbers in Central Africa, and are opportunistic feeders with no strong preference for a particular host animal, so would feed on a large range of wildlife.»
She was curious about whether zebra stripes were attractive to tabanids, a family of insects that includes tsetse flies and horseflies — notorious pests that can transmit illnesses such as sleeping sickness and Chagas disease.
Human African Trypanosomiasis — also known as sleeping sickness — is a parasitic disease transmitted by the tsetse fly and provoked by Trypanosoma protozoans.
The tsetse fly is related to the fruit fly - a favoured subject of biologists for more than 100 years - but its genome is twice as large.
As it turns out, the stripes help deter biting flies like horseflies and tsetse flies.