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Friday, February 20, 2009

Tsetse fly


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tsetse fly

There are 22 different species of tsetse fly, and they live only in Africa. These flies are slightly larger than a horsefly. They breed along rivers and streams.
Britannica online encyclopedia article on tsetse fly:Tsetse fly (Glossina brevipalpis).Anthony Bannisterany member of a genus of bloodsucking flies in the housefly family, Muscidae
TSETSE-FLY (Tsetse, an English rendering of the Bantu nsi-nsi, a fly), a name applied indiscriminately to any one of the eight species of Glossina, a genus of African blood-sucking
tsetse fly (tsĕt`sÄ"), name for any of several bloodsucking African flies fly, name commonly used for any of a variety of winged insects , but properly restricted to members of
Tsetse . The tsetse fly (Glossina sp, pictured left) is found only in Africa and carries trypanosomes (the disease agents causing human sleeping sickness and animal trypanosomosis
More on tsetse fly from Fact Monster: insect: Insect Pests - Insect Pests Plant-eating insects cause enormous damage to crops; any part of a plant is subject to trypanosomiasis
Battling the deadly bite of the tsetse fly February 28, 1998 Web posted at: 2:08 p.m. EST (1908 GMT) (CNN) -- On the African continent, in the narrow band between the 15th
Quick definitions (tsetse fly) ▸ noun: blood-sucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. ▸

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