Table 3.

Attributes and status of tsetse fly agents.

Variables	Status
Sex	Male or female
Age	From 0 to 2 months (3 in the rainy season)
	Daily mortality rate (about 0.3%)
Infection state, teneral state, gravid female	Boolean
Parasite cycle	25 days from the infected blood meal to transmission ability, then transmission during each blood meal
Hunger level	Look for blood meal after 3 days of fasting Dies in 6 days without eating
Territory	Radius of 1.5 cell
Movements	One cell per TS, does not go into deep forest
Transmission competence	Randomly 2% of infected flies