Just got a flyer in the mail on the Fly Predator biological fly control product. With all the rain we've had this spring in New Mexico, flies are going to be a major problem this summer.
Does anyone have any experience with the Fly Predator product. Does it work, and can you recommend it? Any drawbacks?
Much thanks,
Laurie
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Final Voyage
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Glad you asked, i was wondering the same thing!!
I like the natural approach, don't want to spend $$$ on expensive automatic spray systems, these fly predators seem just as easy as sprinkling fly bait around the barn. At present i'm wondering if its like the old "sea monkeys" scam. 
Biting flys are no friend of mine. Them little bas*^&% like to bite me whether i'm in the chicken barn or the horse barn. They turn my dog's ears to bloody scabby sores that i've forever pasting with various concoctions ( Corona is my favorite). I'd love to hear someone's unbiased testimony. Hope someone steps forward.
Biting flys are no friend of mine. Them little bas*^&% like to bite me whether i'm in the chicken barn or the horse barn. They turn my dog's ears to bloody scabby sores that i've forever pasting with various concoctions ( Corona is my favorite). I'd love to hear someone's unbiased testimony. Hope someone steps forward.
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We heard lots of good things about them, so we bought them one year. Unfortunately, due to timing and a bunch of other idiot excuses, we didn't exactly get them "placed" correctly. I think I remember the flies being not-so-bad that year, but not enough to be sure that the fly predators had anything to do with it. I keep wanting to try them again... maybe this year...
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Dear Flys,
You have bit my dogs 
until their ears bled, you've bit my horses and bothered them so they stomped all day and made riding no fun 
at all. Some of you came from the neighbors cows and made my farm your home. You deer flys (i think) bother me when i walk through the shade of the trees on my horse and swarm around her head and make her ears bleed 
. You cutarebrae sting my baby kittens 
and your larvae are impossible to all get out so the kitties die. You also hang out in my chicken's barn and make gathering eggs painful for mY person. Thousands of you have been caught in stinky traps, on sticky fly strips, and killed a few of your number with yellow bait. Still you multiply.
Consider this your notice of eviction from my property. Any of you that remain shall suffer the consequences of the
PREDATORS!!! 
Signed,
AHHNOLD SCHWARTZAKITTY
until their ears bled, you've bit my horses and bothered them so they stomped all day and made riding no fun at all. Some of you came from the neighbors cows and made my farm your home. You deer flys (i think) bother me when i walk through the shade of the trees on my horse and swarm around her head and make her ears bleed . You cutarebrae sting my baby kittens and your larvae are impossible to all get out so the kitties die. You also hang out in my chicken's barn and make gathering eggs painful for mY person. Thousands of you have been caught in stinky traps, on sticky fly strips, and killed a few of your number with yellow bait. Still you multiply.
Consider this your notice of eviction from my property. Any of you that remain shall suffer the consequences of the
PREDATORS!!!
Signed,
AHHNOLD SCHWARTZAKITTY
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KamiBrooks
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For what it's worth, we were given one of those propane "mosquito magnets"... seems to help around our house with mosquitos and the newly-hatched black flies (if you've never experienced them, you're LUCKY!!). The bag is always full.
Glad someone asked... always wondered about those! Would be worth it for us, for when the deerflies come out in August...
Glad someone asked... always wondered about those! Would be worth it for us, for when the deerflies come out in August...
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Used them last year & noticed improvement. Probably would have seen even more improvement if we'd put them out earlier & followed the application tips more closely.
Also tried the Mosquito Deleto last year. It didn't work very well at all, but I've heard some were recalled, so maybe it was a defective one.
Also tried the Mosquito Deleto last year. It didn't work very well at all, but I've heard some were recalled, so maybe it was a defective one.
I think I'll go ahead and order this year and see if it keeps down the fly infestation that we're expecting. I'll post back later and let you know how it works.
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Use pennyroyal oil 1 scoop in your bath water and the flies will take a hike, as they dont like the scent of it.
Put some pennyroyal oil into your sprayer mixed with anise oil and water and spray your stalls and barn walls.
Hang a bunch of tansy in your stalls as the flies and mosqu. dont like the scent.
Put some pennyroyal oil into your sprayer mixed with anise oil and water and spray your stalls and barn walls.
Hang a bunch of tansy in your stalls as the flies and mosqu. dont like the scent.
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