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A tsetse fly (Glossina sp) in the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania. Minden Pictures/Alamy

July 4, 2023

Biting flies are attracted to blue traps – we used AI to work out why

Roger Santer, Aberystwyth University

New research on what attracts blood-feasting flies to blue objects could help minimise the impacts of those insects on people and animals.

When they suck your blood they can leave behind the parasite that causes sleeping sickness. Patrick Robert/Sygma via Getty Images

July 29, 2020

Bloodthirsty tsetse flies nurse their young, one live birth at a time – understanding this unusual strategy could help fight the disease they spread

Geoff Attardo, University of California, Davis

This insect’s unique reproductive biology could lead to new ways to control the species in the environment – and prevent the deadly sleeping sickness it spreads to people.

Campus shutdowns mean researchers must be classified as essential personnel to tend collections, like these fungus-colonized plants. Cameron Stauder

April 23, 2020

Scientists are working to protect invaluable living collections during coronavirus lockdowns

Matt Kasson, West Virginia University; Brian Lovett, West Virginia University, and Rita Rio, West Virginia University

From fungi and flies to spiders and fish, living collections need care and feeding even when their human keepers are dealing with a pandemic and its resultant social distancing.

Tsetse flies can pass on African sleeping sickness. Shutterstock

January 16, 2020

What changes in temperature mean for Africa’s tsetse fly

Elisha Bayode Are, South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling & Analysis (SACEMA) and John Hargrove, South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling & Analysis (SACEMA)

Mathematical modelling tools may predict where tsetse flies are being driven to extinction.

Scientific testing has zeroed in on the advantages of a zebra’s striped coat. Tim Caro

February 20, 2019

Zebra’s stripes are a no fly zone for flies

Tim Caro, University of California, Davis and Martin How, University of Bristol

How the zebra got its stripes is not only a just-so story, but an object of scientific inquiry. New research suggests that stripes help zebras evade biting flies and the deadly diseases they carry.

The Tsetse fly which spreads African sleeping sickness. Oregon State University

September 22, 2016

New finding offers breakthrough in beating African sleeping sickness

Annette MacLeod, University of Glasgow and Paul Capewell, University of Glasgow

A new finding may shed light on how sleeping sickness has avoided elimination and could help finally beat the deadly disease.

Modern cattle in Kenya. Steven Goldstein, Washington University St. Louis

March 10, 2015

Tooth enamel provides clues on tsetse flies and the spread of herding in ancient Africa

Kendra Chritz, University of Utah

New research upends the previous theory that tsetse flies – and the disease they carry – were the main reason the spread of livestock domestication in Africa stalled out for a thousand years.

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