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An effect of host diet on the attraction of tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) to host odour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

G. A. Vale
G. A. Vale
Affiliation:
Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Control Branch, Department of Veterinary Services, P.O. Box 82S3, Causeway, Salisbury, Zimbabwe
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Abstract

In Zimbabwe, field studies were made of the extent to which catches of Glossina morsitans morsitans Westw. and G. pallidipes Aust. from stationary visual targets plus ox odour were changed by maintaining the ox on normal, starving or fattening diets. A fattening diet after a week of starvation often produced a several-fold increase in catches in a few days, followed by a declining catch associated with lack of appetite, and a further increase in catch when appetite was restored. Carbon dioxide and acetone emitted by the oxen could not account fully for the level and variations of catches.

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Original Articles
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 71 , Issue 2 , June 1981 , pp. 259 - 265
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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