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I need help identifying the flies that get in my horse's ears in the summer, so I can try to keep their population down this year.
Last summer, my mare's ears were tender and full of sores before I noticed them, and then it was another week or so before I knew it was from flies. Fly spray does keep them away, but if I go a few days without using the spray, the flies come back.
The flies are small (a little smaller than a small housefly, or maybe half the size), grey, and they don't make any noise when they fly. They seem to only target the horse's ears, I don't recall seeing them anywhere else on the horses, or even anywhere else on their faces.
Last summer, my mare's ears were tender and full of sores before I noticed them, and then it was another week or so before I knew it was from flies. Fly spray does keep them away, but if I go a few days without using the spray, the flies come back.
The flies are small (a little smaller than a small housefly, or maybe half the size), grey, and they don't make any noise when they fly. They seem to only target the horse's ears, I don't recall seeing them anywhere else on the horses, or even anywhere else on their faces.