Big babies, little mothers: Tsetse flies show extreme mothering
The tsetse fly is an exception to the almost universal law of nature that babies are born smaller than their mothers.
The tsetse fly is an exception to the almost universal law of nature that babies are born smaller than their mothers.
Plants & Animals
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Tsetse flies are bloodthirsty. Natives of sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies can transmit the microbe Trypanosoma when they take a blood meal. That's the protozoan that causes African sleeping sickness in people; without treatment, ...
Ecology
Jul 29, 2020
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Researchers from the IAEA Insect Pest Control Laboratory in Vienna, Austria have employed near infrared still photographs and time-lapse video to observe the pupa of the living tsetse fly, and for the first time have watched ...
Plants & Animals
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