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Know your flies for effective control options

By Adele Hart and Patrick Wagner, South Dakota State University
Jul 1, 2021
Jul 1, 2021 Updated Jul 22, 2021

Fly control — Figure 1. Four flies side-by-side in decreasing size, from left: house fly, stable fly, horn fly and face fly.
Photo courtesy SDSU

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By Adele Hart and Patrick Wagner, South Dakota State University

Along with being irritants to livestock, horn flies, face flies and stable flies are economically important to producers due to their negative impacts on milk production and calf weaning weights. In addition, they can affect grazing distribution and transmit eye diseases, such as pinkeye and infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR).

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