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ACID BUG (NAIROBI FLY) AN UNWANTED

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  • 1. Department of Entomology, C.P. College of Agriculture Sardarkrushinagar Danti-wada Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar, Gujarat, India, 385506.

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Nairobi fly is an important pest in recent times which gained medical importance in terms of controlling of it from infecting us and the distribution of this pest across world and in India and it effects on humans and its statistical data of infection among people and species involving in it and about its morphology and habitat and chemical toxins. There are some preventive and curative measures need to be followed. It has producing and its chemical structure and its effect on the human body and also its preventive and curative measures need to be taken before prior infection.

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