Targets & Traps

Target and trap techniques are intended to reduce populations of tsetse fly to levels which reduce the challenge or risks to humans and animals.

They are also deployed to prevent re-invasion of the fly from a previously cleared area. Despite successful field trials, livestock farmers in Africa have been slow to adopt traps and targets as a means of tsetse control.

Their motivation diminishes after the tsetse fly population is low as to pose threat to livestock health and therefore community based fly suppression efforts have been difficult to sustain.