The biological flies control program |
The importance of effective flies control is often underestimated. Flies account for large annual losses in livestock producers' profits caused by both effects on animals such as weight loss and disease transmission, and by the expense of running an often inefficient flies control program.
A biological flies control program is the safest, most cost effective way to control filth-breeding flies.Augmentation of commercially produced fly predators and parasites such as beneficial nematodes and parasitic wasps have provided the livestock producer with economical and environmentally friendly alternatives.
Beneficial nematodes quickly and effectively help to eradicate the larval stage of the developing fly before it has a chance to become a menace to livestock and neighbors, which is an ever more important issue due to urbanization. Nematodes actively seek fly larvae upon which to feed and lay their eggs. Within 48 hours of this effective hunt and destroy operation, the host is dead and thousands of juvenile nematodes have been generated to continue with the mission.
Fly parasites, miniscule nocturnal wasps, burrow into the soil in search of the pupating larvae. The female wasp is ready to mate and oviposit immediately upon emergence from the host puparia. She deposits one to fifteen eggs, depending on species, into the living host. About two weeks later, fully developed adult parasites emerge to search out new hosts.
Fly traps help to control adult flies that manage to get past the first two control tactics, and flies migrating from outside areas. Controlling the adult population even a little increases the effectiveness of the other flies control measures. Fly traps come in many varieties, disposable traps with built in bait, reusable traps with bait that you replenish, and fly tapes, sometimes with fly pheromones as an attractant.
We have found that the use of these flies controls effectively reduces filth breeding fly populations. |
