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Aren't These Flies So Cool?
Female flies deposit their larva into the soil directly th they have eggs that they actually old internally, undtill they develop into third instar larvae. They then pupate and emerge as adult flies. Both male and female flies blood feed as adults. And so here is how human african trapan somiasis becomes a problem. When these flies feed on a human host or an animal host, they pick up this parasite, this tripanisome, in the blood meal. These parasites enter the digestive tract of the fly. There they differentiate, they replicate. In the salivary glands, they differentiate again. Into the infective form of tripan. Some continue to replicate,