Demonstration that adult stable flies tend to form localized aggregations has rendered many currently used control strategies unsound and unnecessary. Demonstrated that satisfactory fly control on cattle can be attained via intermittent pesticide usage and that cultural methods can provide rapid and long-term reduction of stable flies without pesticides. Demonstrated that house fly populations in closed high-rise poultry houses tend to aggregate in certain areas of the house, probably due to temperature and air movement. Demonstrated the potential for boric acid and polybor to be used in liquid formulations for house fly management on poultry farms. Also found high concentrations of both borates to be repellent to house flies.
Containerized borates produce a relatively slow kill, but are environmentally safe.
Demonstrated that house flies can reproduce in small amounts of manure sand, implicating the development of flies in manure residues in pastures. Demonstrated that permethrin-impregnated yarn can be applied to fiber glass stable fly traps and used to kill stable flies in the field for up to 8 weeks. Inproved impregnation techniques could improve the residual period. Academia Nacional de Agronomia y Veterinaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1995. National Integrated Pest Management Workshop for Arthropod Pests of Livestock and Poultry, 1994.