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Research Project: Improved Surveillance and Control of Stable Flies, House Flies, and Other Filth Flies

Location: Mosquito and Fly Research

Title: Resumption of stable fly and house fly research at post-Covid CMAVE

Author
item Hogsette, Jerome - Jerry
item Kline, Daniel - Dan
item Norris, Edmund

Submitted to: Meeting Abstract
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/26/2023
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary: After working from home since March of 2020, CMAVE gradually reopened in early 2022. Field work had been out of the question, so all field projects stopped in their tracks in 2020. All Covid-related safety precautions were lifted earlier in 2023 and we are back to normal or something similar. Some of the projects underway include development of led bulbs for insect light traps used primarily for house fly management indoors. Several led bulbs are on the market, and they are as attractive to flies as the fluorescent bulbs still in use. Our objective is to improve the attraction of the led bulbs if that is possible. Another project is evaluation of transfluthrin as a repellent for stable flies. Laboratory studies have been very promising with a rapid knockdown and mortality in closed containers. Semi-field studies in large cages (9 x 18 x 4 m high) are underway and devices used to release the transfluthrin are being developed. A number of repellent compounds are being screened with stable flies for repellent activity. Laboratory studies have recently begun, and results have been surprising in the early stages. A trap study was started at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2023. Vavoua traps are being compared with the Knight Stick traps in what might be one of the few studies with Vavoua traps in the US. We all talk about potential publications lurking in our file drawers. While working from home with no data being collected from field studies, several of these latent projects were written up and published.

Technical Abstract: After working from home since March of 2020, CMAVE gradually reopened in early 2022. Field work had been out of the question, so all field projects stopped in their tracks in 2020. All Covid-related safety precautions were lifted earlier in 2023 and we are back to normal or something similar. Some of the projects underway include development of led bulbs for insect light traps used primarily for house fly management indoors. Several led bulbs are on the market, and they are as attractive to flies as the fluorescent bulbs still in use. Our objective is to improve the attraction of the led bulbs if that is possible. Another project is evaluation of transfluthrin as a repellent for stable flies. Laboratory studies have been very promising with a rapid knockdown and mortality in closed containers. Semi-field studies in large cages (9 x 18 x 4 m high) are underway and devices used to release the transfluthrin are being developed. A number of repellent compounds are being screened with stable flies for repellent activity. Laboratory studies have recently begun, and results have been surprising in the early stages. A trap study was started at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2023. Vavoua traps are being compared with the Knight Stick traps in what might be one of the few studies with Vavoua traps in the US. We all talk about potential publications lurking in our file drawers. While working from home with no data being collected from field studies, several of these latent projects were written up and published.