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The Quest for Functional Ingredients for Sustainable Aquaculture Feeds in Sub‐Saharan Africa

open access: yesAquaculture Nutrition, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
The aquaculture sector plays a key role in ensuring food and nutritional security as well as fostering economic growth in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). However, as the sector continues to grow, its future faces economic, environmental, and sustainability challenges.
Arnold Ebuka Irabor   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Simple Window Screen to Create Electric Discharges for Repelling and Exterminating Stable Flies and Houseflies in Cattle Barns

open access: yesAgriculture
The current study aimed to create an electrostatic window screen to keep stable flies and houseflies out of cattle barns. The screen comprised three identical framed metal nets arranged in parallel at specific intervals.
Yoshihiro Takikawa   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determination of the Distribution of Bacterial and Parasitic Infection by House Fly in term of Type of Solid Waste Contact in Kerman Province [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2004
The aim of this study was to determine the parasitic and bacterial contaminations of houseflies found around various garbages, and to emphasize the necessity of fly control and taking more efficient strategies for garbage disposal.
M Aghasi, M Zareazadeh
doaj  

Regulation of the juvenile hormone titre in the Colorado potato beetle [PDF]

open access: yes, 1978
Three main topics were investigated in regulation of the titre of juvenile hormone in haemolymph of the Colorado potato beetle ( Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say): enzymic breakdown of the hormone; binding and protection of the hormone by carrier proteins ...
Kramer, S.J.
core   +1 more source

Musca domestica acts as transport vector hosts

open access: yesBulletin of the National Research Centre, 2019
Background Musca domestica is the most common flies all over the world. More than 100 pathogens may cause diseases in human and animals. Houseflies transmitted helminthic eggs, protozoa cysts and trophozoites, bacteria fungi, and virus by mechanical ...
Ragaa Issa
doaj   +1 more source

A housefly sensory-motor integration laboratory

open access: yesAdvances in Physiology Education, 2010
Insects have many interesting behaviors that can be observed in an introductory biology laboratory setting. In the present article, we describe several reflexes using the housefly Musca domestica that can be used to introduce students to sensory and motor responses and encourage them to think about the underlying neural circuits and integration of ...
Edwin R, Griff, Thomas C, Kane
openaire   +2 more sources

Laboratory evaluation of Moringa oleifera and Jatropha curcas extracts on adult housefly (Musca domestica L.)

open access: yesJournal of Zoonotic Diseases
Synthetic insecticides are frequently used to manage disease vectors like houseflies, however, these chemicals are hazardous to human and animal health and not affordable to most people in rural areas. As a result, the demand for a substitute is pressing.
Fatai Olaitan Alao   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The influence of visual landscape on the free flight behavior of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
To study the visual cues that control steering behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, we reconstructed three-dimensional trajectories from images taken by stereo infrared video cameras during free flight within structured visual landscapes ...
Dickinson, Michael H., Tammero, Lance F.
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A contribution to vision-based autonomous helicopter flight in urban environments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
A navigation strategy that exploits the optic flow and inertial information to continuously avoid collisions with both lateral and frontal obstacles has been used to control a simulated helicopter flying autonomously in a textured urban environment ...
Anadan   +33 more
core   +5 more sources

Ethnobotanical survey of pesticidal plants used in South Uganda : case study of Masaka district [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Use of synthetic pesticides in developing countries is not only limited by their being expensive but also the small (uneconomic) fields whose limited production costs cannot offset costs of agricultural implements like agro-chemicals. Subsistence farmers,
Charles, Kudamba   +3 more
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