“Reducing hay waste and spreading/drying areas around finished bales is key to reducing stable fly numbers,” she says. “In ...

Since there are so many products on the market for fly control, work with your Extension specialist or veterinarian to develop a plan to control flies that best suits your cattle operation.

Mexico made a first shipment of sterile parasitic flies to Uruguay to help combat the cattle “screw worm” or Cochliomyia hominivorax, an insect whose larvae or maggots eat living tissue ...

The insect birth control was proven ... to control or mitigate livestock pests, including flies and ticks “of economic importance to US cattle producers.” That includes continuing to improve ...

The white spray stripes lasted for a week or so. Either way, the striped cattle seemed well protected from gadflies and cattle flies, according to the researchers. The outcome of the experiment ...