Back to tsetse flies ... they're bad biters and they carry sleeping sickness so their bites are bad news, too. I'm told they bite like a big horsefly and that they can bite through jeans, but that may be folklore. that said, they bite cows and cows wear one-piece leathers.
the only tsetse areas that I found were in western Zimbabwe in 2003. there, they have/had road blocks where they check you/your vehicle and catch the suckers in nets.
I heard lots of stories of them chasing moving stuff and "distractor" flags at the side of the road etc, but I couldn't figure what to believe so I just covered up and kept glancing down at my arms and legs to see if anything was settling in for dinner.
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