Evidence for potential of managing some African fruit fly species (Diptera: Tephritidae) using the mango fruit fly host-marking pheromone
Publication Type
Journal Article
Journal Name
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Publication Date
1-1-1986
Abstract
The Lambwe Valley is shared between wild animals in a national park and adjacent human settlements with domestic livestock. Thicket and woodland in the valley are heavily infested with Glossina pallidipes. Rhodesian sleeping sickness continues to be a major human health hazard and livestock losses from nagana seriously affect the local economy. Epidemiology is characterized by periods of quiescence and flare-up, reflecting intermittent vector control measures to reduce transmission. The situation has been aggravated in recent years by extension of tsetse habitat and encroachment of settlements to the park. In 1981, an attempt at tsetse eradication by insecticidal methods was unsuccessful, due to technical difficulties and for reasons to do with the resilience of a large, entrenched tsetse population living under environmental optimal conditions. The options for dealing with the disease are outlined, and some of the critical assessments which have to be made are elaborated upon. © 1986, Oxford University Press.
PubMed ID
3810794
Recommended Citation
Turner, D. (1986). Evidence for potential of managing some African fruit fly species (Diptera: Tephritidae) using the mango fruit fly host-marking pheromone. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 80 (4), 592-595. https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(86)90152-5