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Bats as a Source of Food for Glossina morsitans and G. tachinoides
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 July 2009
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Large numbers of the bat, Nycteris hispida, Schreber, have been observed at dusk flying out of the residual forest islands at Gadau. Some have been captured and placed in a large cage containing Glossina morsitans and G. tachinoides. The sleeping bats, hanging head downwards, are perfect complacent hosts; both species of tsetse have been seen to attack and feed on them on many occasions, and to experience no difficulty in becoming fully gorged.
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