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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

T. A. M. Nash
Affiliation:
Entomologist, Sleeping Sickness Service, Nigerian Medical Department.

Extract

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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