Ohio State Extension educator Ted Wiseman provides tips to control flies around livestock to reduce stress and disease transmission.

The experiment’s aim was to get them to mate with their female counterparts, reduce the species’ ability to reproduce, and gradually shrink the population — and its screw-shaped larvae’s propensity to ...

Other biting bugs on the beaches or in the woods Deer flies and horse flies appear by mid-summer, generally when the mosquitoes and black flies decrease in number. Deer flies have brightly colored ...

These large flies (genus Tabanus) use serrated mandibles to roughly saw through ... and they're more likely to be doing this in hot weather. Horse fly bites produce a raised, red area of skin that can ...

Mexico's New World Screwworm outbreak halts livestock imports at the southern border as US officials work to prevent the ...

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queried the prime minister. “I guarantee you, that horse can’t fly,” he added. Holness was speaking during a ground-breaking ceremony for Brookside Estate Housing Development in Spot Valley ...

A horsefly bite, caused by a fly of the Tabanidae family, is painful but usually harmless, causing a raised, red area of skin known as a weal (much like a mosquito bite). Uncomplicated cases can ...

"Biting flies consist of a diverse group which can range from very small no-see-ums to large, aggressive horse flies," says entomologist Elmer Gray, public health extension specialist at the ...

When I fish a trout river that’s new to me, I often stop into a local fly shop to pick up a few dry flies. Every river has its own special patterns, and I’m a sucker for these. I thought it ...

One of the more common insects affecting livestock is the horse fly. Much larger than a typical house fly or stable fly, horseflies can grow to be just over an inch and have a terrible bite. I noticed ...