Vegetation and the importance of insecticide-treated target siting for control of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes.

• Main Authors: Johan Esterhuizen (Author), Basilio Njiru (Author), Glyn A Vale (Author), Michael J Lehane (Author), Stephen J Torr (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Control of tsetse flies using insecticide-treated targets is often hampered by vegetation re-growth and encroachment which obscures a target and renders it less effective. Potentially this is of particular concern for the newly developed small targets (0.25 high × 0.5 m wide) which show promise for...