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 ...

An Account of the Biology of the Genus Glossina (Diptera). By Prof. Patrick A. Buxton. (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Memoir No. 10.) Pp. xx + 816 + 47 plates. (London: H. K ...

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 ...

Kenya’s dream of achieving food security will remain elusive due to invasion of vast fertile lands by tsetse flies. Kenya Tsetse and Tryponosomiasis Eradication Council says the national food ...

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 ...

In a study published in the journal eLife, lead author Willie Weir said they discovered that the tsetse fly existed for thousands of years only by subdividing itself without having sex and is now ...

Vampire bats are remarkable creatures that survive exclusively on blood, a diet rich in proteins but low in fats and sugars.

The anticoagulant combines a short protein molecule (a peptide) from a tsetse fly—a blood-feeding insect—with a second, synthesized peptide. The bonds holding the two peptides together can be ...