Biting Stable Fly Trap
Bite Free™ Stable Fly Trap
$9.49 Re-Useable
If your horses are stomping and twitching you need this trap. Same if your cows
are bunching and stomping. The Bite Free Stable Fly Trap is a trap that almost every horse owner should have, but most don’t. Stable Flies make up about
20% of the pest fly population around horses typically, but they are not attracted to House Fly traps. You need a Stable Fly Trap to get them and the
StarBar® Bite Free is the best one available. A USDA sponsored study published in the Journal of Economic Entomology reported this trap caught between
2 and 3 times as many flies as the best two other biting Stable Fly Traps.
See the full report here.
This trap modifies light coming through the special translucent material and causes a Stable Fly to see a "shimmering" image like a mirage on a hot
day. That combined with a black top and bottom fools the Stable Fly into thinking it's a warm animal and that means there's blood there. Place this trap
in the sunlight so light will shine through it. Biting Stable Flies bite animals on the legs and flanks so place it at about the same height between 2
and 3 feet off the ground, no higher than 4 feet.
Place them outside of the breezeway doors, in pastures, corrals, typically on the outside of the fence so your animals don't mess with it. We suggest
putting them on 30"-36" length of rebar or up to 1-1/4" wood post set in the ground. They can also be hung from their loop at the top. This trap uses the
same glue as the EZ Trap so it won’t dry out or melt and it can be washed off and reused. It will hold 8,000 flies but you should rinse it off before it
gets that full, as it can get dusty as that reduces the stickiness. This is a "must have" trap and most stores don't even carry it. If your store or mail
order provider offers Fly Predators they likely carry this and the other recommended traps. They are a good place to get these traps.
Disclaimer
Caution if you have lots of small birds. We have had a very small number of customers, (4 as of late July), report they found a small bird stuck to this
trap. This is a fraction of a percent of the thousands of these traps we've sold, but we've been admonished for not providing a warning that this was possible.
When we reported this to the StarBar folks they were surprised as well and had not had any prior reports of this. The glue is sticky, but not that sticky and
most birds should be able to get away if they happen to touch it. We love birds too, but on balance, the relief this trap can provide your horse is a far greater good.