Buffalo fly resources for cattle producers
Learn how to manage flies effectively and protect your livestock.
General
- Buffalo fly
- About buffalo fly
- Distribution and biology of buffalo fly
- Seasonal distribution of buffalo fly
- Types of flies on grazing cattle
- How to count flies on cattle
Impacts
- Impact and cost of buffalo fly
- Pinkeye in cattle
- Buffalo fly lesions
- Stephanofilaria in cattle
- Managing insect worry in livestock
Non-chemical control
- Non-chemical ways to manage buffalo fly
- Buffalo fly traps
- Step-by-step guide to build a buffalo fly tunnel trap
- Natural predators of buffalo flies
- Dung beetles and their role
- Manage your property to prevent fly breeding
- Breed cattle for resistance to flies (and lesion scoring chart)
Chemical control and resistance
- Chemical control for buffalo fly
- What is insecticide resistance?
- Managing insecticide resistance
- How to choose insecticide products for cattle
- Annual treatment program for cattle pests in coastal Queensland
- Using chemicals safely and effectively
- Health and safety when handling chemicals
- Environmental contamination
- Residues, withholding periods, and export slaughter intervals
- Treating manure and breeding sites
Chemical groups
- Chemical groups and actives
- ParaBoss Product Search tool (for help identifying actives)
- Organophosphates (OP)
- Synthetic pyrethroids (SP)
- Macrocyclic lactones (ML)
- Chemical mixtures and combinations