Control- House Fly

CONTROL - HOUSE FLY

Managemental

  • Potential breeding sites should be avoided by
    • Regular removal of manure
    • Stacking of manure- heat generated kills fly larvae- treating sides of stack with insecticides
    • Spreading manure in a thin sheet
    • Improve sanitation, collect garbage in cans. with tight fitting lids, incinerate garbage/ Hodge's garbage trap/ Babers Fly trap, latrin system on open ground should be avoided 
    • Do not expose food
    • Use of various types of screens, electrocution grids
    • Fly line (resin+paraffin oil sticky coat ---> 1,50,000 flies killed within 310 mts long string
    • Insecticidal use,
      • Aerosol sprays
      • Residual sprays for walls, ceilings
      • Insecticide impregnated cards/strips
      • Insecticide in solid or liquid baits
      • Insecticide dust bags "back rubbers"
      • Impregnated ear traps, tail bands and halters (mostly synthetic pylrethroids)

Biological Control

  • Steinernema feltiae- a common soil nematode is used to kill fly larvae(box with granules of S. feltiae)
  • Parasitic wasps/cannibal fly- Predators
  • Fungus- Beauvaria bassiana
Last modified: Friday, 23 September 2011, 5:42 AM