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The effects of selective elimination of hosts on a population of tsetse flies (Glossina morsitans morsitans Westwood (Diptera, Glossinidae))

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

G. A. Vale  and
D. H. M. Cumming
G. A. Vale
Affiliation:
Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Control Branch, Department of Veterinary Services, P.O. Box 8283, Causeway, Salisbury, Rhodesia
D. H. M. Cumming
Affiliation:
Department of National Parks and Wild Life Management, P.O. Box 8365, Causeway, Salisbury, Rhodesia
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Abstract

Monthly observations were made of the numbers and nutritional state of Glossina morsitans morsitans Westw. and the numbers of game animals in an 11 km2 block of woodland in Rhodesia. After 31 months the block was enclosed by a warthog-proof fence and nearly all of the warthog inside were removed rapidly. Tsetse diet switched from 80% warthog to 40–80% bovid (mainly kudu), 20–50% elephant and 0–20% warthog. Six months later elephants were driven from the block and bovids then formed about 90% of tsetse diet for the next year. Although the selective removal of hosts produced a clear stress, it had no drastic effect on the numbers and nutritional state of tsetse when compared to these features of a control population. Movement of tsetse into the enclosed area can account partly, but not fully, for this. The effects of routine hunting operations on a tsetse population are also reported.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 66 , Issue 4 , December 1976 , pp. 713 - 729
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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