Kansas State University Research and Extension veterinary entomologist Cassandra Olds says controlling flies in livestock herds is a problem that “plagues most producers most years.”
While most people associate flies as one breed, there are actually four types that impact livestock herds: houseflies, horn flies, stable flies and face flies.
“Lucky for us, each fly has a preference for where it likes to be on the animal, or not on the animal,” Olds says, noting that horn flies prefer the animal’s back or belly; stable…
