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Africa's bloodsucking delivery system for sleeping sickness, with a diagnostic proboscis and zero chill.
means A blood-feeding African fly, carrying trypanosome parasites that cause sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock.
from From Tswana (a Bantu language), where 'tsetse' roughly means 'fly that kills cattle' — borrowed into English more or less whole in the 1800s, onomatopoeic-feeling double syllable and all, as European travelers and colonial administrators ran into the insect's devastating effect on livestock across sub-Saharan Africa.
- birth method
- gives live birth to one giant larva at a time
- feeding style
- stabs with scissor-like mouthparts, not a straw
- at rest
- folds wings scissor-like over its back, unlike houseflies
- disease vector
- spreads trypanosomes causing human and animal sleeping sickness