To protect your business from the health risk posed by large flies such as houseflies and bottle/blow flies, there are steps you and your pest management provider can take to minimize food safety risks.
To protect your business from the health risk posed by large flies such as houseflies and bottle/blow flies, there are steps you and your pest management provider can take to minimize food safety risks. An integrated pest management (IPM) program aimed at large flies will include sanitation, exclusion and suppression.
Sanitation
Good sanitation practices on the outside can reduce fly pressure on the facility and good sanitation practices inside reduce the reasons for flies to enter, ensuring there is no breeding opportunities inside. Large flies can actively move to warm areas and can spread to your facility from adjacent properties. They breed in garbage, trash compactors, and overripe or rotting vegetables. By keeping your environment clean, flies have little incentive to come in or near your facility.
Exclusion
Exclusion helps keep house flies from entering the facility:
Suppression
Suppression helps quickly remove large flies that have entered the facility.
The best solution for fly prevention is to give them no reason or way to come in. Ecolab Service Specialists are trained to monitor and address fly activity, identify sanitation and structural issues related to large fly presence, and provide recommendations on improving conditions to reduce fly activity.
Large flies, also known as filth flies, include houseflies, bottle/blow flies and flesh flies. Understanding the biology and behavior of these common types of large flies can help with fly prevention in your facility.
Large flies including houseflies, bottle or blow flies and flesh flies are also called “filth flies” because they breed in filth such as manure, human excreta, dumpsters, garbage, and decaying vegetation, causing a food safety risk.
Implementing a comprehensive program utilizing an Outside-In Approach can greatly improve your efforts towards large fly prevention in your facility.