Sentences with phrase «which tsetse»

Also of note has been the identification of the patches of land to which tsetse flies are increasingly being confined in the Zambezi Valley in Zimbabwe.

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More than 4,000 flies were captured, of which 30 % — mostly tsetse flies, which spread African sleeping sickness — were engorged with blood.

Since then, scientists have used the technique to eradicate the screwworm fly, which causes lesions on livestock, from North and Central America; the tsetse fly, which brings sleeping sickness, from Zanzibar; and the pink bollworm, a pest of cotton, from California.

The project, which has taken 10 years to complete, will provide the tsetse research community with a free - to - access resource that will accelerate the development of improved tsetse - control strategies in this neglected area of research.

This prolongs host survival and thereby potentiates the transmission of the parasite to the tsetse fly, which ensures it can complete its life cycle.»

Tsetse are the insect vector of the trypanosomiasis parasite which causes disease in animals (with major knock - on effects on the farmers who are financially dependent on their livestock), and sleeping sickness in people (fatal when not properly treated).