Browsing Faculty of Science & Technology (FST) by Subject "parasitoids"

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    • Predators, parasitoids and pathogens of ticks: A review 

      Esther, N. Mwangi; Olusegun, O. Dipeolu; Robin, M. Newson; Godwin, P. Kaaya; Shwagi, M. Hassan (Uniiversity of Nairobi.School of Biological Sciences, 1991)
      Research conducted on natural enemies of ticks, namely predators, parasitoids and pathogens, is reviewed. Predators include ants, birds, rodents, lizards, shrews, spiders and domestic chickens. All the known parasitoids ...

    • Prospects for Innovative Tick Control Methods in Africa 

      Kaaya Godwin P. (University of Nairobi.School of Biological Sciences, 2003-03)
      Ticks, and the diseases they transmit, are of great economic and medical importance worldwide, and especially in Africa, where they are considered to be the greatest animal disease problem. The four major genera of ticks ...

    • Prospects of using tick parasitoids (Insecta) for tick management in Africa 

      Kaaya Godwin P. (University of Nairobi.School of Biological Sciences, 1997)
      Since the first report of tick parasitoids by Howard (1907), sevens pecies belonging to the genus Ixodiphagus have been described. Apart from a few parasitoid releases in the USA and Europe in the first third of the century, ...