[HairOfTheDog]

Well, we don't have any ants like that up here! - We don't have ants with a worse bite than a mosquito.

And, I began appreciating my ant hills (I have about six big colonies out in the pasture) when I noticed a steady stream of ants raiding the horse's manure piles and carrying out all of the fly larvae that gets laid there... I consider them an important part of my fly control regimen!

I also feed a supplement that is intended to keep fly larvae from hatching in manure...

Some of it must be working... I have my door wide open today, as usual, and no flies are coming in! I have very few flies for a horse farm. I rarely need to spray the horses, and my friend (who burns her anthills, by the way) has a bad fly problem!

[2Jedismom]

We don't have fire ants here in Tulsa...yet. The ants we do have only nibble on you and we live peacefully with them most the time. I sure hate it they're eating my rutabagas, though...I may put some boric acid on them.

[Sam Cree]

My next door neighbor has horses, but I don't think she treats them so good. Her yard is over an acre, but the two horses don't get to walk around in it. They occupy a "paddock" no more than, perhaps less than, 40 feet by about 15 and they stay in it 24-7. They have no shelter of any kind from sun or weather and don't get ridden much. Nor does she seem to muck out that often. At least there's lots of manure and flies in there with them (that come over here some).

She considers herself an animal lover, but I have my doubts.

[Sam Cree]

Your fly control system is cool.