The life cycle of the tsetse fly.

Date:
1987
  • Film

About this work

Also known as

Life of the tsetse fly

Description

Twenty-two species of blood-feeding tsetse fly are found in tropical Africa, several of which carry the trypanosome parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in man and ngana in cattle and other domesticated animals. This video gives a detailed account of the life-cycle of the tsetse fly, with special reference to Glossina morsitans. The fly does not lay eggs but gives birth to one living larva at a time, which burrows into the earth and pupates. When the pupa hatches, the adult fly struggles to the surface and goes in search of its first blood meal. Each of these stages is shown in detail.

Publication/Creation

London : Wellcome Trust, 1987.

Physical description

1 film reel (10 min.) : sound, color, 16 mm.
1 film reel (10 min.) (mute) : silent, color, 16 mm.

Notes

Filmed at the Medical Research Council's Tsetse Research Laboratories, Langford, Bristol and at Kariba, Zimbabawe.

Creator/production credits

Wellcome Trust Film Unit -- writer and narrator, Dr. L.G. Goodwin, F.R.S.; director and photographer, Douglas Fisher.

Copyright note

Wellcome Trust.

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  • Copy 2

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  • Copy 1

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