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Publication Type: Abstract Only Publication Acceptance Date: 10/25/2014 Publication Date: N/A Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: The stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, is a serious pest of livestock, domestic and feral animals, and humans throughout the world. To reduce indiscriminate applications of pesticides, trapping systems, with and without the focused pesticide applications, can be an important in stable fly integrated management systems. The objective of this study was to evaluate the KnightStick (KS)(BugJammer, Stockton, NJ, (http://www.bugjammer.com/index.htm), a non-toxic trap for stable flies, by comparing it with currently used traps, and placing it in a small exotic animal park to control stable flies. The KS trap is a vertically oriented 30-cm long piece of 10-cm diameter PVC pipe covered with a thin piece of adhesive-coated packing foam. This foam sticky wrap comes in a small size for use on traps and a large size (Tank Wrap) for wrapping around other objects. The KS trap was compared with the Olson Sticky Fly Trap (Olson products, Medina, Ohio, USA, http://www.olsonproducts.com/), a standard stable fly trap since the 1980s. The Olson trap is made from a fiberglass that reflects sunlight in wavelengths that are attractive to the stable fly. The Olson trap has a clear sticky wrap that fits over the cylindrical trap. When compared with the Olson trap, the KS trap captured 3 times as many stable flies. When the Olson trap covered with its own sticky wrap was compared with the Olson trap covered with a KS sticky wrap, the latter combination captured significantly more stable flies than the former. This indicated that the foam wrap itself has attractive qualities. When the Tank Wrap was place around cylindrical objects, such as plastic barrels and propane tanks, stable flies were captured in large numbers. When propane tanks with KS wraps were placed in swampy areas, large numbers of culicoides and tabanids were also captured. When 3 KS traps and 4 plastic barrels wrapped with Tank Wrap were placed at a 1 hectare exotic animal park, it took several weeks to reduce the number of flies, even though large numbers of flies were captured weekly. This indicates that more traps and barrels with Tank Wrap were needed at this small park to properly manage stable fly populations. In conclusion, KS traps outperformed Olson traps and the KS wrap is very attractive to stable flies even when it is used on objects other than the KS traps. Key Words: stable fly, traps, management. |
