About the Authors

Kumbirai M. Zingore

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya, Geomatics Division, School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

George Sithole

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Geomatics Division, School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

Elfatih M. Abdel-Rahman

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Khartoum, Khartoum North, Sudan

Samira A. Mohamed

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

Sunday Ekesi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

Chrysantus M. Tanga

Contributed equally to this work with: Chrysantus M. Tanga, Mohammed E. E. Mahmoud

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ctanga@icipe.org

Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

Mohammed E. E. Mahmoud

Contributed equally to this work with: Chrysantus M. Tanga, Mohammed E. E. Mahmoud

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya, Agricultural Research Corporation, Wad Medan, Sudan

Competing Interests

All the authors and Agricultural Research Corporation have no competing interests.