Get ready to explore one of Africa's most notorious insects: the tsetse fly. These tiny flies may not look like much, but they play a major role in spreading sleeping sickness, aka human African ...

Tsetse flies can feed on both wild and domestic animals, but some species prefer humans as their primary host. These flies are also notorious for being tough to swat away.

THE tsetse-flies (Glossina) continue to occupy the attention of entomologists working in tropical Africa. Dr. W. A. Lamborn has now published (Bull. Entom. Research, vii., part i) a third report ...

A. G. Bagshawe announcing the discovery, I believe for the first time, of the pupæ of the tsetse-fly (Glossina palpalis) in nature. As this species of fly is now known to be the agent which ...

A new study sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in cattle and other animals establishes long-term infections in hosts.

Also referred to as "sleeping sickness" due to the effect it has on your sleeping pattern, it is transmitted to humans via ...