However, it is confronted with the major threat of fruit fly infestation which causes reduction of quality and quantity of marketable fruit resulting to considerable produce losses. 192–197, 1911) summary translation in Entomological News. Listed: Caroline Mugure, Muchiri Registered: Abstract Mango production is a major form of income generation for Kenyan large and small-scale farmers. The larvae are always localized on those parts of the hosts which come in immediate contact with the soil." - Ann. Published by the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) and issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June. In the region of Lower Katanga where these investigations were made, dogs appeared to be the principal hosts, although Cordylobia larvae were found also in guinea-pigs, a monkey, and two humans. Fruit trees however, have a more direct utility to people for nutrition and food, in that they provide fruits which are rich in vitamins, proteins, essential. This fly is said to be the most common cause of human or animal myiasis in tropical Africa, from Senegal to Natal. On reaching full growth, the larvae leave the host, fall to the ground, bury themselves and then pupate. The larvae, known generally as Cayor Worms, crawl over the soil until they come in contact with a mammal, penetrate the skin and lie in the subcutaneous tissue, causing the formation of tumors. An outbreak of mangoworms, the creepy crawly maggots that burrow under human and animal skins, has been announced in. Doctors Rodhain and Bequaert conclude, from their observations in the Congo Free State, that Cordylobia anthropophaga lays its eggs on the ground. image unavailable Kibaara shows two wounds where mango worms were removed.
Its specific epithet anthropophaga derives from the Greek word anthropophagos, "human eater". The bot fly larvae in question are those of the Tumbu Fly, which is also known as the mango or putsi fly.
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