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   Impact of deltamethrin aerial sprays on adult Cyrtobagous salviniae in Botswana

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: CN Kurugundla --- , Botswana MC Bonyongo --- Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre, Botswana O Serumola --- , Botswana

   The risk and effect of the insecticide deltamethrin, applied aerially in Botswana to control and eradicate tsetse fly, was studied on the non-target weevil Cyrtobagous salviniae, a biocontrol agent of the aquatic weed Salvinia molesta. Environmentally-simulated short-term toxicity bioassay used...

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   Killing tsetse and/or saving wildlife? A multispecies assemblage in colonial Zambia (1895–1959)

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Léa Lacan --- University of Cologne, Germany

   This article investigates the problem of the tsetse fly and the trypanosomiasis disease it conveys as a transforming multispecies assemblage in colonial Zambia from the late nineteenth century until 1959. Based on archival research, it analyses the tsetse fly (Glossina...

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   The making, unmaking and adaptation of Mayeyi multispecies entanglements within the Kwando-Linyanti wetlands: eighteenth century to 1990

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jessica-Jane Lavelle --- University of Cape Town, South Africa

   The Kwando-Linyanti wetlands of Namibia are known for their rivers, floodplains and woodlands with abundant wildlife and a diversity of birds and fish. Within these landscapes reside the Mayeyi, a Bantu-speaking people whose culture is closely entangled with the wetlands...

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