![]() If you’d like to hear a podcast that my team did with Dr. You won’t regret it, and you’ll get a super special email from me once weekly. Now be a good human and subscribe to my blog. For even more on flies, go here: Full Paper. Remember, this is the short version of flies and horses. Machtinger (who I stole all the information in this week’s blog from), EcoVet was the only fly spray that worked. It has a funny smell, but actually works. Pro tip: a sunless tanning mousse application mitt works great for this. Best way to do this is to wipe them down. Be sure your ENTIRE horse is covered with fly spray.Apply them right before you really, really, need them. Ever felt like no fly spray works? Here’s a few fly spray tips: You may find you have few enough that you and your horse are happy, but if not, never fear: there’s fly spray. Now what? First, you will notice you have a lot fewer flies to even worry about. Ok you’ve identified your flies, the areas they hang out, you’ve got your traps, cleaned up the wet, matted hay, and put out Fly Predators. The key to fly predators is to put them out about every two weeks in the height of the season, and start them early. They can be ordered from companies like Spalding Fly Predators ( ). Pupae can get eaten by a cool bug called a Fly Predator! These are tiny wasps that live to eat fly pupae. This stuff changes the pH enough to kill the larvae without changing it so much that it’s bad for the rest of us. There is a cool product called sodium bisulfate (sold as Poultry Litter Treatment) you can add to stalls, or edges of manure piles. Other great baby rearing locales are under stall mats, especially under the water buckets, and anywhere horse manure piles up. At a horse farm, the absolute prime baby fly location is in those horrendous mats of hay found around hay feeders. ![]() Larvae can be found in damp, protected areas. For larvae (ie, maggots, and who doesn’t think they’re just gross), getting rid of the environment is key. This gives you four separate life stages to go after! Adults are best targeted with traps (but remember you need the right trap for the kind of fly you have!).Įggs can be difficult to target, but heat is your friend here. Flies go through four stages: adult, eggs, larvae, and pupae. Knowing how flies raise fly families helps you get rid of happy fly breeding grounds. Now we’re going to learn about fly life cycles. We’ve already learned that house and stable flies hang out in different locations. We’re going to learn a lot about flies today. It is a great time to insist on chin scratches. Really learning what kind of flies you have, and watching to see which kind annoy your horses most will help you pick the right ways to kill the most flies possible. For example, house flies like to hang out with their bodies parallel to a surface, while stable flies like to set their little fly butts down. You can also spend some quality time watching your flies (and your horses) to help determine fly species buzzing around. Setting out several kinds of traps, and putting them in different areas will help you see what you’ve got. Heck, you might not even have house flies. This means you can’t catch stable flies with the same traps you would use for house flies. Different flies want different things in life. For my adoring fans in areas that are still cold, one day it will stop snowing, and this will be useful information. Now is the time (in Florida anyway) to get busy managing your environment for flies. I’m going to give you the wise cat summary version here, but I highly recommend you go read the entire document! It’s full of great information about managing flies. Luckily, I found this handy guide to flies: Full Paper. ![]() A bunch of flies is awful, and since I live in a barn, flies can be a problem. If I get papers to go flying it’s even better. They are so fun to chase, especially when they get inside, and I can run around, over, and through all the hard work my minions are doing. Unfortunately this weather has been good for something else: flies. I love seeing how many people I can get to drive around me by laying right in the middle. The weather this past week has been absolute perfection for sunbathing in the middle of the driveway at the Clinic.
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