Hi PT. Those of us with horses are all dealing with this right now -- in my area, we're just finishing up the green-headed biting fly season, followed immediately by the huge *bomber* horse fly season, and when that ends, the annoying bot flies show up. It guarantees about three months of misery for horses, and head-banging against the wall for caring horse owners.
I was visiting a horse-retirement farm in Nashville last weekend, and saw a fly trap that you assemble and put out in the pasture for the horses. The construction of the unit sort of resembles a horse (at least to flies, it does) -- and that attracts them to it, where apparently they bump into a shield that causes them to drop into soapy water where they drown (insert cheering of thousands here). The unit is called EPPS Biting Fly Trap -- and if you Google it, you will find a variety of places that sell it at a variety of prices -- the highest being about $300.00, and the lowest around $265.00 with free shipping. If your friend has a herd of Luisitanos, he/she can afford it!! ;-) If it solves the problem, most horse owners would sell their souls to afford one. The only other advice I can offer is a defensive one -- turn the horses out at night, and bring them into the barn during the day when the biting flies are out. Anyway -- hope this helps for your friend. MA ________________________________ From: needling around <ptf2...@bellsouth.net> To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Fri, July 30, 2010 5:02:29 PM Subject: CS>animals - OT Hi, Is there anyone that know of something that will deter biting flies? A friend's horses are just being tortured this year. After being bitten the bites swell and bleed. If there are enough bites in an area then the whole area swells. Thanks for any help you can give. PT
