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PestAway Pest Control Blog
Stable Fly Control
The stable fly superficially is similar to the housefly, but a apparent distinction is the forwardly producing piercing and sucking mouth-part, with which it will be able to pierce the skin and suck blood. The stable fly is hardly seen inside buildings and domestic premises. Stable flies are numerous and more populous around dairies and other intensive animal production facilities and industries (check industrial and commercial pest control page for more details). Biting and annoyance of livestock can reduce yields. Stable flies control is quite essential in such industries. On occasions stable fly attacks and bites humans, and in these cases bites frequently happen around the ankles. Both of those stable fly males and females suck blood. The adult stable fly is just about five to seven millimetres long. It has specific piercing and sucking mouth-parts. There is a light-coloured spot on the thorax somewhere between the longitudinal stripes. When these pest flies are resting, wings are held widely apart.
Female stable flies need to have a blood meal before laying eggs. Eggs are laid on an appropriate feeding medium, which can be vegetable wastes, composts, lawn clippings, decaying hay or grain, manure, chicken droppings or seaweed accumulated on seahorse. The stable fly eggs hatch in just a few days. The larvae feed for almost one to three weeks, and then crawl to drier regions to pupate. Adult flies may emerge in one week or more, and the life cycle generally takes three to five weeks when conditions are suitable. The stable flies feed on the blood of animals and tend to stay and fly outdoors in sunny areas. They are great flyers and travel some distances from the breeding site.
The Stable Fly additionally breeds in vegetation strewn along the shorelines of lakes and bays and in accumulations of wet grass clippings from yards and golf courses. There are many favourable places for stable flies in Melbourne. Both female and male stable flies feed on the blood of warm-blooded animals such as people, cattle and horses. In addition, they are a pest on farms that have cattle in pastures and feed-lots. They often bite through clothing, specifically on the ankles. Adult stable flies do not feed during night.
Proper sanitation practices will help control stable flies. For instance, management of breeding areas by cleaning any straw and hay and spilled feed that collects in pens and spreading it out to dry or disposing of it in a compost pile, is an effective solution for flies control and reducing stable fly ;numbers noticeably. Because stable flies are not attracted to “odour” traps, special designed stable fly traps must be used to control these pests. Residual pesticide should be applied to places where stable flies use for digesting their food. They usually fly to a vertical surface after a blood meal. So applying residual pesticide to these surfaces is effective in stable flies control and decreasing their populations.
Posted by PestAway Australia on 18th December, 2012 | Comments
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