How to attract a blackfly – researching blackflies’ aroma preferences.
(Photo: electron micrograph of a blackfly with Onchocerca parasite, credit:USDA) The idea of sitting in a field and letting blackflies potentially carrying an unpleasant disease bite you sounds like a job best avoided, yet this is the way in which populations of blackflies carrying the river blindness parasite Onchocerca are monitored in Sub-Saharan Africa. Research…