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Trapping as a means of studying the game tsetse, Glossina pallidipes Aust.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

K. R. S. Morris
K. R. S. Morris*
Affiliation:
Liberian Institute of the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine.
*
*Now at Department of Pathology, Makerere College Medical School, Kampala, Uganda.
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In an area of sleeping sickness due to Trypanosoma rhodesiense in Uganda, Morris's ‘ animal ’ traps were used to study the activity and the relations with habitat and hosts of the vector, Glossina pallidipes Aust., a tsetse difficult to sample by conventional fly-round methods.

This type of trap was found to give samples both numerically greater and more truly representative of the tsetse population present than did either fly-boys or Chorley's bicycle screen.

Black traps showed an over-all superiority to brown traps, greatest during the rains and disappearing in the dry season, and this was related to the tsetse being attracted by the trap as representing a natural host.

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Research Paper
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , November 1960 , pp. 533 - 557
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1960

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