How to deal with horseflies

One of the most pressing issues in the warm season is how to get rid of horseflies on the site. Owners of summer cottages located near water bodies and forests suffer from the invasion of harmful insects. Them bites are dangerous to humans and animals. With the wrong approach, the fight against horseflies turns into a "war against windmills." If everything is done correctly, there will be no dangerous, annoying insects in the country.

Attractive summer cottage

If in the country there are favorable conditions for the life of insects, they will certainly take the opportunity to settle next:

• Gadgets feed on the blood of horses, cows, less often pigs, goats, sheep, dogs. If in the immediate vicinity there are such animals, the fight will have to be constantly.
• Horseflies are water dependent. Always live near ponds. If there is a pool at the cottage, containers filled with liquid are present, the pool does not dry out, insects will always be nearby. If possible, water should be removed, then the problem will be solved by itself.
• In the grass, insects lay eggs. If you engage in the removal of horseflies, but leave thickets around the cottage, the effect will not come soon.

In order to finally get rid of annoying, dangerous creatures, it is necessary to create unfavorable conditions for them at the summer cottage. Reduce the number of pests will help insecticidestraps.

Killing insects in the country

Horseflies can be combated with ordinary traps without insecticide or toxic substances.

Light traps

Modern devices are highly efficient. They work from the source of the city electric network, battery, rarely on batteries. The trap attracts horseflies with bright light. But, being on the metal rods of the device, the pest receives an electric shock.

On a note!

Trap acts not only on horseflies, attracts many harmful insects - mosquitoes, flies, gadflies. In one fell swoop, you can clear the country estates from many annoying pests. Means for catching pests are placed in any convenient place - under the roof, canopy, in the veranda, on the terrace, in the yard.

Flycatcher paper

The simplest, most primitive trap. A sticky base is applied to the paper. Hang under the roof of the house, indoors. An option for those who want to get rid of horseflies in the country, but not on the land itself. Large-scale transformations with such a tool cannot be implemented.

Bag traps

Special devices for catching flying insects, especially flies. In a convenient place, hang the bag. Inside is a bait and a hole for entry. Inside horseflies fall easily, but units are selected outside.

Homemade traps

You can get rid of horseflies in the country using your own designs. Minimum knowledge is needed, what horseflies are afraid of, what they love, a modicum of patience.

Complex construction

In the place with the most horseflies, they build a special trap:

1. Hang a stool or chair as high as possible.
2. A dark-colored ball is tied to it with a rope.
3. The lower part of the stool is smeared with sticky glue, or double-sided tape is fixed.

The ball with movement and dark color attracts horseflies. Insects fly to the ball, find that there is nothing edible, rise up, stick tightly. The sticky layer of the trap should be updated periodically.

Artificial puddles

Horseflies drink water funny. They immediately rush into a puddle, collect liquid in a special bag, quickly rise up, continue the path. This can be taken advantage of. Kerosene and gasoline are poured into a small container. Horseflies fly on a dive in an oil tool that clogs the spiracles, glues the wings. The pest dies.

Bottle traps

One of the easiest options. You can make a large number, hang in any convenient place:

1. Cut off the neck.
2. The walls are lubricated with vegetable oil.
3. The bait is poured - sugar syrup, honey, jam, any attractive remedy.
4. Turn over the cut neck, insert it into the bottle, fix it with tape, thread the rope.

Insecticides

Traps help reduce the number of harmful insects, but are not able to cope with them completely. If the situation is difficult, it is recommended to treat the site with special preparations from the group of pyrethroids, organophosphates, and organochlorine chemicals.

Effective remedies:

• Dichlorvos;
• Coumaphos;
• Malathion;
• Methoxychlor;
• Cypermethrin;
• Tetramethrin;
• Sumitrin;
• Lindane

Insecticides are allowed to process rooms, ponds, open areas. But it should be remembered that they are all of a wide spectrum of action. Together with horseflies from a toxic agent, many useful, harmless bugs, bees die. A person may suffer.

An insecticidal agent is used in severe cases. The action in the open area lasts about 1 month. If necessary, re-treatment is carried out.