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Ticks are haematophagous ectoparasites capable of transmitting diseases to vertebrates and, therefore, constitute a threat to human, livestock and wildlife health. Though synthetic chemical acaricides have made a tremendous ...

In a previous study using three plant species (maize, sorghum and Napier grass), naïve gravid B fusca females significantly preferred sorghum and maize over Napier grass for oviposition a phenomenon, which was partly related ...

African animal trypanosomosis, transmitted by the tsetse fly remains a major constraint to food security in areas of Africa that hold the continent's greatest potential for expanded agriculture production. The flies also ...

The efficacy of Limburger cheese as an odour bait for sampling African malaria vectors was evaluated. Studies were done in Suba district, Western Kenya at Lwanda Nyamasare village and in a screen house set up at the ...

Intestinal tracts of plant feeding insects are potentially important sources of novel biocatalysts. However, the microbial populations in these guts, especially in the Lepidoptera, are not well characterized. In this study, ...

Napier grass remains an important strategic grass species in east African mixed crop-livestock systems. However, production of several varieties of the grass remains constrained by phytoplasmic disease, Napier stunt disease ...