The first time Nicola Veitch went to a soccer game, she danced on the field in a white lab coat alongside a colleague inside a giant tsetse fly costume. Most of the fans applauded. Some were baffled.

The tsetse fly might look like an ordinary insect at first glance, but it’s responsible for spreading one of Africa’s most notorious diseases: sleeping sickness. Found across parts of sub-Saharan ...

Scientists have identified a volatile pheromone emitted by the tsetse fly, a blood-sucking insect that spreads diseases in both humans and animals across much of sub-Saharan Africa. The discovery ...

Tsetse flies have attracted a lot of attention albeit sporadic in nature especially when they attack human beings. Ironically, despite these defining incursions, the tsetse problem remained neglected ...

The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single burst of hot weather, researchers at the University of Bristol and Stellenbosch University in South Africa have found. The ...

The disease known as sleeping sickness is on the decline but remains a concern in Africa. Now there's a theatrical event aimed at keeping the... The first time Nicola Veitch went to a soccer game, she ...

The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single burst of hot weather, researchers have found. The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single ...