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Seasonal variation in nutritional levels of male tsetse flies Glossina morsitans morsitans (Diptera: Glossinidae) caught using fly-rounds and electric screens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

P. Van den Bossche  and
J.W. Hargrove
P. Van den Bossche*
Affiliation:
Regional Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Control Programme, Box A560, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe
J.W. Hargrove
Affiliation:
IPMI Tsetse Research Project, Harare, Zimbabwe
*
* Fax: (263 4) 722684 E-mail: petervdb@rttcp.org.zw
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Abstract

A total of 4420 male Glossina morsitans morsitans Westwood were captured on man fly-rounds in Katete District, Eastern Province, Zambia between February 1991 and December 1993. Of these flies, 1680 were captured before June 1992, during which period 989 flies were also captured on odour-baited electric screens operated in the same area. Non-teneral flies were analysed for fat, haematin and residual dry weight and their wing-vein length was measured. There were well marked annual cycles in wing length, fat and residual dry weight. Flies were biggest at the end of the rainy season, and smallest at the end of the hot dry season. Fat levels were lowest before the onset of the rains and highest in the cool season. Residual dry weight was a function of haematin content and the degree of wing-fray; these factors were used to correct the residual dry weight to zero haematin. Corrected residual dry weight and wing-vein lengths were most highly correlated with relative humidity in the month prior to capture (r > 0.8 and 0.6 respectively). Correlations with saturation deficit were weaker; temperature accounted for <20% of the variance. Fly-round flies had a consistently higher residual dry weight than those from the electric screen, but their fat levels were lower. The distributions of log haematin levels differed little between the two sampling methods and were adequately described by a model where capture and feeding rates increased exponentially after each meal. The increase in the feeding rate after each meal differed little with season and was closely similar to that estimated for female G. pallidipesAusten in Zimbabwe.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 89 , Issue 4 , April 1999 , pp. 381 - 387
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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