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Studies of the sampling of Glossina pallidipes Aust. III.—The hunger stages of male flies caught on cattle and in Morris traps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

I. M. Smith  and
B. D. Rennison
I. M. Smith
Affiliation:
East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organization, Tororo, Uganda
B. D. Rennison
Affiliation:
East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organization, Tororo, Uganda
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When non-teneral male flies of Glossina pallidipes Aust. were caught concurrently on oxen and in Morris traps in two experiments in south-eastern Uganda and classified, within 1½ hr. of capture, according to a modification of the hunger-stage categories described by Jackson, individual recorders were found to differ markedly in their assessments. No conclusions regarding the hunger stage of flies taken by different attractants could therefore be drawn from the first experiment, but in the second, which was so designed as to discount possible bias amongst recorders, the proportions of ‘hungry ’ (stage III + IV) flies in catches of males were similar on variously coloured individual oxen, and generally higher than in trap catches, in which the proportions varied widely. As all the traps appeared identical, no generalisation is possible about the mechanism by which non-teneral male flies are attracted to and induced to enter such traps.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , October 1961 , pp. 601 - 607
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

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