The tsetse fly might look like an ordinary insect at first glance, but it’s responsible for spreading one of Africa’s most notorious diseases: sleeping sickness. Found across parts of sub-Saharan ...

Geoff Attardo receives funding from National Institutes of Health (#1R21AI128523-01A1 - Unraveling Intersexual Interactions in Tsetse) and the Pacific Southwest Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne ...

New Haven, Conn. — Yale scientists have for the first time identified a volatile pheromone emitted by the tsetse fly, a blood-sucking insect that spreads diseases in both humans and animals across ...

Fighting the tsetse fly using irradiation involves rearing and then releasing in the environment sterile male flies to mate with wild females producing no offspring, reducing the population over time.

In the context of an area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) applied to tsetse flies that are vectors of African Trypanosomosis (AT), which remains one of the major constraints to agriculture ...

Elisha Bayode Are receives funding from SACEMA, which receives core funding from the Department of Science & Technology, Government of South Africa. John Hargrove receives funding from SACEMA, which ...