Fly Control for Dairy

Yes, You Can Beat The Flies This Summer!

It happens every summer. You hope that the flies won’t be too bad, but then almost overnight, they’re back and yes, it’s a bad fly year again. You rush to put bait out, pour the cows, put new reels on the sticky tape roller, add traps and maybe in desperation call the spray guy.

As usual, none of this works very good or for very long. Your cows are miserable, bunching, swishing tails, stomping feet. Your wife is not happy either with flies in her house. And worse those flies are also costing you a surprisingly significant amount of MONEY! If this sounds familiar why do that again?

“This is my second year using Fly Predators and I can now go to my barn in shorts and not have a fly land on me-I have to look hard to find any signs of flies.” Mary S. Los Gatos, CA

Getting rid of flies after they have hatched and built up a tremendous population is like bailing a sinking boat with a teaspoon. They are just too many flies by that time and many, many more on the way.

Fly Predators are tiny and never bother people or animals. You'll likely never see them, but you will see their results.

Instead try stopping flies before they have a chance to reproduce and build-up to problem levels. You can do this by good manure management to make it less “fly friendly” and adding Fly Predators. Fly prevention is like fixing that hole in the boat before you put it in the water. It’s a little more work up front, but a whole lot more pleasant later and won’t soak your wallet.

My family started using Fly Predators® 33 years ago with our horses and our fly problem literally disappeared. So we started offering them to others and over the past 32 years hundreds of thousands of livestock owners have relied on them. The vast majority with great results. Once someone tries Fly Predators for at least three shipments, most typically use them for as long as they have their animals. They really do work.

Fly Predators are not a magic “new” fly control product. They are perhaps nature’s original fly control. You almost certainly have some of the species that are included in our Fly Predator® brand beneficial insects already working for you on your property. They’re part of the reason you aren’t literally knee-deep in flies. You may have way too many flies, but without these good bugs, it would be far worse.

“All we used last year were Fly Predators plus we picked up a bit more. There were significantly fewer flies and the cows weren’t bothered.”” Tom R. Peru, NY

When left in a natural state only 2% to 4% of fly eggs usually survive to the pesky flying stage. A big part of this high mortality are Fly Predators, which are parasites. But Fly Predators don’t want to get rid of every fly as they need the fly’s pupae (cocoon) to reproduce. Or their populations may be decimated from pesticide use. By simply increasing the ratio of Fly Predators to pest flies you can dramatically suppress the flies. They do the work and you enjoy the benefit.

“Nothing personal but I am skeptical of all advertisements. However I must admit these things work as advertised. It's unbelievable the difference Fly Predators have made. We are totally satisfied!” Doyle W. South Haven, KS

There’s no downside as the Fly Predators do not bother either people or animals. A key benefit is you stop flies before they have a chance to reproduce. A 4% survival rate means you’ve got around 15 new flies coming for every one you see today as each female fly can lay up to 900 eggs. That’s why controlling flies by attacking just the adults with sprays, baits, traps, etc. is almost always a losing battle.

“I cannot believe we didn't do this before! I can walk into the barn and not be touched by a fly. We will stick with Fly Predators.” Jenny S. Brunswick, OH

Will Fly Predators alone control every dairy, feedlot or range cattle's fly problem all by themselves? They could, but you'd need more Fly Predators than if you combined them with smart manure management as that is the major factor affecting your fly population.

The first half of this brochure explains how to use Fly Predators. The second half of this brochure describes how to optimize your farm to make the fly breeding areas unsuitable for them, so you can achieve optimum results with the fewest Fly Predators possible. All the photos were taken by me during customer visits.

We want you to win the battle with flies this summer. You can do it!

Tom Spalding -Chief Fly Guy

Seeing is believing... click here to see close up photos of our customers' animals like those on the left taken August 24th in Portales, NM You'll have to look hard to see a fly!