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Glossina Pallidipes and open Country in the coastal Area of Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

J. Y. Moggridge
J. Y. Moggridge
Affiliation:
Tsetse Research Department, Tanganyika Territory.
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Glossina pallidipes does not readily attack objects moving along the edge of vegetation forming its habitat; fewer tsetse attack under humid than Under dry conditions, but those that do seem to range further.

Parties of men moving out of heavily infested thicket did not carry tsetse far into the open. Few tsetses attached themselves to the men and these became gorged within a few yards of the thicket edge. Similar results were obtained when bait cattle were used.

Experimental catches in a glade showed, even during the humid season, an extraordinary reluctance on the part of G. pallidipes to approach a party moving through the glade even at so short a distance as 8 yards from the thicket, but further experiments showed that a party staying in the glade for a short time made a much larger catch.

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Original Articles
Information
Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , June 1949 , pp. 43 - 47
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1949

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References

Moggridge, J. Y. (1936a). Experiments on the crossing of open spaces by Glossina swynnertoni.—Bull. ent. Res., 27, pp. 435–448.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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