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How to control flies - it can be done. For three years now we have been doing it, and we are happy to show you how. It is with the Horse Pal, a simple yet ingenious trap for biting flies, such as horse flies, deer flies (or green heads) and yellow flies. We have also seen it trap stable flies.
This horse fly trap is a great natural fly control for any biting fly.
Product website: www.bitingflies...
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Your video prompted me to build a horse fly trap like the Horse Pal and it trapped 50+ horse flies that very evening! I had no idea we had that may of the little beggars around the house. Thanks for the incentive to get this thing up and going. We now have our back yard back!! :-)
Alex Wiggs, excellent! I am glad it worked out so well for you! Thanks for letting me know :-D
Alex Wiggs questions, what did you use for the big black ball?
Hi Diane! I used a decent quality kid's play ground ball and painted it black. I glued a spare little suction cup from a bathroom soap dish (I had laying around) to it and attached the the pendulum string to it.
Great review! Solid results and I like the idea to feed the buggers to your livestock. It's hard to argue about the cost when it will go on working for many years. If you have an update, or just mention it in one of your videos I would appreciate it. Thanks for your help!
Butch Mazza, Due to my neglect the canvas is wearing out along the legs and needs to be replaced. Still functional, but a lucky fly might find a hole.
I leave it out all year, right in the heat of the sun and cold of the wind and have never cared for the canvas. I'm sure it would have lasted even longer if put up or cared for.
I hope that helps!
03:45 I absolutely LOVE that you feed the flies to your chickens and ducks!!! I was just wondering about that very thing. Thank you so much for this video, our goats are being bothered by biting flies and I think this will certainly help. Wishing you well... I also feed Japanese Beetles to the chickens and as you've described so well, the beetle numbers are also in profound decline. Thumbs UP all the way....
I cannot recall ever finding a bee in it - not a honey bee, not a carpenter bee, not a bumble bee... and we have them all around there. Thanks for watching and sharing!
This is wonderful to see!! I just noticed we have some biting flies, and just flies in general out at the farm. My neighbor has livestock. I don't yet, but plan to, so I know the flies will come with time. Will definitely have to look into getting one. Thanks for sharing!
You're very welcome!
It sure is working great for us. Crafty people might be able to make their own fairly easily. The concept is simple - which is probably why it works so well.
J&J Acres I made one!! First one wasn’t that great the second one I used a hula hoop and black beach ball, some tulle, and a mason jar and a homemade funnel cost me 15 bucks!,!
Thanks nice video. I had a horse farm 25 years ago. We battled the horse flies deer flies and regular flies.
I hoped someone would have an ideea for a trap for these flies! Thank you for posting the video.
4mbrad, you are very welcome.
Great video, dude! Thanks for the education! That was a great explanation! Will definitely give this a try!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. Can you please provide information on that black ball? What is it made of? Does it have any kind of attractant other than the fact that it warms up because it’s black? Thank you.
My wife said I was nuts to pay $315 for something like this. I actually spoke to Neal and what he said made sense. Came home for lunch yesterday and set it up. Putting it together is easy, it takes about 20 min. I set it in the back by the pool (where they seem to be worst especially while swimming) and by the time I came home last night I had about two dozen horse flies, both the black and the green heads. I'm going to let it work for one week and then make a video. The Horse Pal works!
Excellent. Glad to hear you had wonderful results. Enjoy the pool.
I made one for 15 bucks!
Thanks for the Vid...I bought one and its working really, really good! I'm gonna build another one
PepeGraves, happy to hear it!
Thank you the invitation to visit your channel. I've enjoyed your videos so far so yes sir, you have a new subscriber. Nice review as well.
Not sure what the other flies are. Also not sure why it is not trapping the horse flies. All I know is that I was skeptical when I bought it, but it worked wonders for me on day 1. I am sorry, I do not have any advice on what else to try as I never tried anything else. I hope it gets better for you, and quickly.
Hahaha! Why do you have go and give all the fun parts away ;-) Thanks for the nice words and for watching!
I also heard that flies are attracted to black. It’s true. Our white horses seem unaffected and the black horses are tormented. This is very expensive but if it works it’s worth considering. $374 is a lot.
Buy black beachballs and strung them to surrounding trees and put sticky stuff on them. I did this last year. The death and revenge on the flys was very fulfilling.
very cool...now that you've won the war on the horse flies I guess its time to sale it to me an let me use it for a summer ha....just curious how much did this cost a few years ago...looks like its almost $300 bucks (shipped) now on their sight...think it would be easy to make one?
Thanks for this review. Very helpful.
That is how much I paid. Crazy sounding - I know. You do get a very sturdy device for that money - this one has sat out in storms and several seasons of weather - having never been stored away over winter - just sits out in the sun. You could absolutely make one and there are plenty of people who have done so.
how many flies have you caught? is it having the same success as his? where can we find a video of you making/constructing it? :)
Hello, does this trap work with the normal house hold fly?
Very few house flies, but several wasps. And a smart spider. Several stable flies.
I would try to put it in sight of the pool (so any flies near the pool will see it) but also in the most sunny place you can. The warmer it is, the better.
Excellent use of your abilities :)
Is there water in the black ball?
Any other pests in there with the biting flies? Like regular flies?
TY! You rock!
How many units would I need for a half acre of land? Wouldn't they still try to attack me while swimming vs the horsefly ball in the trap?
Just 1. And, sure, you might still get that 1 determined horsefly - I cannot promise you a fly-free swim, but ours have been 1000x times better since we started trapping most of the flies.
Thanks for the video....
Alex Wiggs, you are welcome.
I just live out in the woods and I was today years old when I learned of deer flies. This damn thing made me so mad as I was walking my dog it bit my face and so now I’m here plotting my revenge 😂 thanks for this video.
Sounds like you get the hat-trick : Thank you for watching, commenting AND subscribing :)
Thank you for watching!
We have a pool outside too and the fear of horse flies and deer flies has paralyzed my kids from going outside to enjoy the pool. Should I set this up close to the pool area(which would bring the nasty critters to us. .eeek!) or father away so that it would keep them away from us? We live on approx 2.25 acres but have a large open backyard. Any advice is greatly appreciated!
Ma'am, i would suggest out on the backyard, or whatever the flies keep appearin' from. Like he said, i would put it where ever heat is mostly located.
Where can I buy one asap?
Got the Horse Pal, set it up, and put it close to the pool but we're still being accosted by those dang horseflies! I maybe have 2 or 3 in the trap, but I have tons of smaller-looking flies (striped bodies?) I have tried moving the trap around a bit, always making sure it is in full sun. I'm still so frustrated...especially after spending $300. I'm thinking of buying Fly Predators to use in conjunction with the trap. Any suggestions?
We are in the same boat. I was chased out of the pool by a 3" whopper that kept dive bombing me. I am going to make a home version for $40 with a Hula hoop, netting a funnel and a black ball
Can it work good on a pig farm?
Absolutely! Just keep it out of the pig's pen.
*Horseflies* showed up here about 2 weeks ago. But we know how to deal with that. Here is a video about controlling horseflies.
The video features a product we purchased, but I am sure someone with a little skill could build one that would work just as well, so use the video as a template for your design. *The Design Works.*
How to control flies - Equipment Review - The Horse Pal
perfect timing, the horse flies were eating me alive last weekend. I was looking at spraying all my 10 acres they are so bad.
*****, I am glad that it might help you in some way :-)
J&J Acres Sir, I catch the smaller green horse flies by the hundreds but I have only caught 2 or 3 of the large horse flies. Any thoughts on why this would be? I apparently have more of the smaller horse flies but just wondering why the big horse flies are avoiding my trap. Thanks....
Alex Wiggs, I am afraid that I really cannot be any help there. I presume you still have a large amount of horseflies not in the trap?
Looking at all the YT horse fly vids. Seems that everybody is making it more complicated (and expensive) than it needs to be.
(conventional way)
Just hang singular ball from overhead superstructure. Ball doesn't need to be dark, blue, or black. Find appropriate sized BLACK plastic garbage bag. Wrap over the ball surface and secure. Apply tangle foot onto the black plastic bag surface. Flies land, stick, and no need for other superstructure capture gear. Remove bag, wrap up, and dispose. Re-apply another plastic bag on the ball, apply tangle foot, and go again.
(optional)
Someone used a worker's blue plastic helmet with painted-on tangle foot goo (ewwww!). I mentioned to do the same dark blue/black plastic bag over the (any color) helmet, secure underneath, apply tangle foot. Use, and when done with your backyard (or outback adventure), unsecure bag, and wrap up the bag and critters and dump into fire or trash can. Re-apply another plastic bag on the helmet, apply tangle foot, and go again.
In any other situation, (especially out camping), use multiple hanging ping pong balls on a string, like christmas lights. Paint blue/black, apply tangle foot, and hang along a patio or fence line, hang down long enough so the balls move in the wind, sun heated, and easy to catch/dispose of bugs/balls. Put further ping pong ball fly traps out. If there is a conventional clothes line, an umbrella-design clothes line, a pool/beach/patio umbrella, or hang down from the fruit/nut/shade trees. Put ping pong balls under the lines, umbrella edges, or tree branches.
100+ ping pong balls, string, black paint, and tangle foot less expensive than all the other superstructure gear. Easy to install, easy to clean up. Easy squeezy!
But a superstructure is meant to be more cost effective in the long run. Unlike sticky ping pong balls, it doesn't have to be replaced, just emptied and reset.
Check out Fly Predators they work very well ‼️
thx man :)
cool!
And it is still working well today. Still stand behind this design.
thanks.
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching!
The website is in the description.
"Then nature just does its part sets that oven to about 450 then bakes them on a greased pan or cookiesheet until they die" LOL
Make ur own ppl. Very easy. Get creative