| Black Fly Control Program to Begin As summer begins and unwelcome pests start making their presence known around area horse farms, the Black Fly Control Program is getting under way for 2012. The program uses the control agent "Bti," which is nontoxic and nonhazardous to mammals. Marcia Bryant, chairman of the program, is asking local farms and concerned equestrians to please donate $35 to help defray the cost of this year's treatment. This program, which aims to rid local Horse Country of the pests, has more than tripled its presence in the Walthour-Moss Foundation and surrounding Horse Country since 1990, treating 44 sites in the area. After adult flies lay eggs in running water, the eggs attach themselves to leaves, rocks and other debris in the streams. |
Sunday, 10 June 2012
Black Fly Control Program to Begin
