Fly Control

In addition to physical exclusion and maintaining sanitation, physical and chemical control can be integrated into a fly management program.
Physical control includes setting traps, sticky tapes, fly swats and electrocuting grids.
Chemical control includes pesticide releasing fly strips, baits, dusting powders, sprays and misting fogs are great for killing adult flies and providing relief of the fly infestation.

However, the true key in any fly management program is identifying and removing the breeding ground.  Be sure to seek out and remove decaying matter, animal waste, animal carcasses, sugary substances and stale pooled liquids.  By removing the breeding ground, the fly life cycle is interrupted and this approach provides long lasting results.

Flies have a negative psychological impact as their presence is considered a sign of unhygienic conditions.  For commercial food industries this is has a profoundly negative impact on business.
Not only are pesky flies annoying, they are vectors for harmful disease related organisms. Flies travel from filth to humans and animals. The diseases that flies can transmit include serious health threatening organisms such as Cryptosporidium, Salmonella, E-coli and Listeria.

They are also known to transmit eye infections (e.g. trachoma and epidemic conjunctivitis), infections of the gut (e.g. dysentery, diarrhoea, cholera, typhoid and certain helminth infections), poliomyelitis and skin infections (e.g. mycoses, yaws, cutaneous diphtheria, leprosy).
Flies also deposit unsightly faeces ever where they land.  A tell tale sign of unhygienic conditions and permanent reminder when deposited on painted plaster walls.

Flies fluctuate in numbers depending on the availability of a breeding grounds and the time of the year.  Fly densities increase in Summer. Flies are active during the daytime and can be found near a food source and their breeding ground. The life cycle of the fly has 4 district phases – eggs, larva/maggots, pup and adult. The common house fly usually lives for 2 – 3 weeks and the female can produce up to 700 eggs over her short life time.