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 ...

LMU researchers have deciphered a crucial signaling mechanism that enables trypanosomes to reach the salivary glands of the flies. Tsetse flies are common across much of Africa. They feed on the blood ...

The first time Nicola Veitch went to a soccer game, she danced on the field in a white lab coat alongside a colleague inside a giant tsetse fly costume. Most of the fans applauded. Some were baffled.

The tsetse fly (Genus Glossina) is notable for two things: it carries parasites called trypanosomes, which cause sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle in sub-Saharan Africa; and it gives ...

Tsetse flies have attracted a lot of attention albeit sporadic in nature especially when they attack human beings. Ironically, despite these defining incursions, the tsetse problem remained neglected ...

The government has sent 8,000 tsetse fly traps to Kalangala District to help control the biting insects that have recently moved from the shores of Lake Victoria into people’s homes and farms. Reports ...

Scientists have identified a volatile pheromone emitted by the tsetse fly, a blood-sucking insect that spreads diseases in both humans and animals across much of sub-Saharan Africa. The discovery ...