ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: [endurance] Fly Sprays/Suggestion
Re: [endurance] Fly Sprays/Suggestion
Kathy M Bowden (kathy@juno.com)
Wed, 26 Jun 1996 15:14:14 EDT
Hi Bonnie,
We have LOTS of lizards around here that help lower the fly
population. One year I did exactly what you just suggested, it worked
great!! There were dead flies everywhere but... here came the lizards
for
a free lunch!
I hadn't thought lizards would eat DEAD flies but a breeze was
making them wiggle and they were scarfing 'em up, yum! I chased them
off and used the vaccuum cleaner hose ( my husband could only shake his
head)
to suck up as many remaining flies as I could.
Well it seemed to me that a diet of poisioned flies (why should they
look anywhere else with all these fresh, slow moving snacks sitting
around?)
would be the end of the lizard families, so I never did it again.
I guess we're stuck with stinky fly traps! maybe we'll try the fly
predators
some day. The vet I used to work for used them at his house for years.
I
don't remember many flies hanging around and he had 7 horses in pipe
corrals.
Kathy kathy@juno.com West Cajon Valley CA
> Heres something that really does help with flies around the barn.
> intended for barn and livestock application. I use a permectrin
> concentrate that is safe for animals and premises. I qt makes
> gal. With horses turned out, spray the interior walls and
spraying. The flies will land on the surfaces, pick up the
>insecticide
> and die, die ,die! The synthetics, like permectin have a longer
>life
> than pyrethrin. Do not do this if you have swallows in your barn.
>It
> will drive them out and they are every bit as good at fly
>killing.
> Wait till they have finished nesting and vacated.
>
> Bonnie Snodgrass
>
>