tsetse fly

     

Tsetse (pronounce /ts/e-/ts/e, teet-SEE, or set-see, alternatively spelled tzetze or tsetze) are large biting flies from Africa which live by feeding on the blood of vertebrate animals. Tsetse include all the species in the genus Glossina, which are generally placed in their own family, Glossinidae.

Trivia about tsetse fly

  • This bloodsucking fly found only in Africa spreads sleeping sickness
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the San Diego Zoo.) A giraffe's tail, which is about 3 feet long, is used to swat this bloodsucking fly that causes sleeping sickness
  • In a fly-by-night operation in Africa, Sir David Bruce found that sleeping sickness was spread by this
  • Many parts of Africa are uninhabitable due to this fly that spreads African sleeping sickness
  • All of the species of this parasite-carrying fly in the genus Glossina live in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Like African sleeping sickness, nagana, a disease fatal to cattle, is carried by this insect
  • This African fly causes sleeping sickness in humans & a similar ailment called nagana in cattle

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