Fly Prevention
An Ounce of Fly Prevention Starting in Spring is Worth Pounds of Cure Come Summer
The best way to control pest flies is to eliminate them before they ever emerge.
That way they never get a chance to reproduce. By starting regular weekly Fly Predator
releases just as the weather turns warm and continuing till it cools down you can
"manage" your flies and the keep their population from ever becoming a big nuisance.
Compliment this by making the "hot spot" fly breeding areas on your farm unsuitable
for fly reproduction and you'll even further reduce the fly population while using
the most cost effective number of Fly Predators. The economics can be quite attractive
and so can enjoying the summer without flies. The proverbial ounce of prevention
can mean many extra pounds of milk and weight gain too.
Good Fly Control Can Pay
For most confinement dairies and feedlots 1,000 Fly Predators per cow per month
provides good control. For Graziers and Organic dairies, 1,500 Fly Predators per
cow are suggested. Some customers have reported satisfactory results using less
than these amounts while others utilize double this to reduce all flies to the minimum.
This works out to between $1.15 to $3.00 per cow per month during the warm months
depending on quantity ordered and usage rate.
management and sanitation at each facility. It is not hard to make a facility sub-optimal
for fly reproduction, but is even easier to do nothing and make it an optimal fly
factory. The additional milk production, weight gain or less doctoring needed with
hardly any flies may more than pay for your Fly Predators. Good fly control can
make you money.
Fly Predators Are Quick and Easy-To-Use
Every week or every other week, during warm weather months we will ship 25%-50%
of your monthly requirement of Fly Predators. Simply release them near all areas
where fly reproduction “hot spots” are occurring. These are typically the areas
with moist manure, spoiled feed and other breeding sites. They are easy to find
by checking for fly larvae (maggots). During your regular walkabout you’ll be doing
your fly control.
No Flies, No Pink Eye, No Pesticides, No Worry
Think about all the work that flies cause you. The endless barn spraying, ongoing
drenching of your cows with sprays and pour-ons, plus the labor and constant hassle
of ear tags, dust bags and other "self treatment" devices, or the mess of fly baits.
None of these are very effective for long periods of time and they don't address
the source of the pest flies. Also, in quite a few areas, the resident fly population
has become resistant to many of the available pesticides.
Easy-to-use. Just sprinkle Fly Predators from the convenient sealed pouch they come
in near all areas with moist manure or spoiled feed.
The biological approach is a dramatically different way of attacking your fly problem.
Unlike pesticides that typically only affect adult flies (which likely have already
laid hundreds of eggs insuring more flies in 10 days) Fly Predators target the pest
fly pupa (cocoon) stage killing the immature flies before they can bother
you and your animals or reproduce to start the cycle again. In fact spraying your
barn can actually make the flies worse as it kills all the beneficial insects, like
Fly Predators, as well as beetles and mites, that provide a significant amount of
fly control on their own.
Using Fly Predators also completely avoids any of the potential adverse side effects
associated with pesticides for your animals or your family. Just reading the warning
label on almost any fly pesticide is perhaps the best advertisement for biological
control. By contrast there is no warning label for the species in Fly Predators
and in over 30 years of commercial use no known adverse effects nor resistance by
pest flies.
“Fly Predators work better than anything else we’ve tried. Even with the heavy
rains last summer, we still had good control, while others in the area had unbearable
flies. Our milk production stayed steady throughout the year too.”
Theresa and Delmar W. Stockton, IL Organic Valley Dairy Members
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Call to discuss starting a biological fly management plan optimized for your operation.
We have some of the most experienced consultants in bio-control, many with decades
of experience. A recent addition to our staff is Dr. Bill Clymer, a renowned animal
parasitoligist who has designed fly control programs worldwide.
Don’t delay as the best time to start is before pest fly populations have reached
the problem level. Fly Predators can be started after you have flies, but since
Fly Predators stop the next fly generation, you’ll have to put up with the flies
that were around before Fly Predators arrived for about a month until they die off.
You’ll also likely need to double or triple the first few shipments to catch up.