Biting Flies

BITING FLIES - The NZI Trap A simple, environment - friendly trap as an alternative to the use of insecticides
Hard to believe - A biting fly trap that actually works!
Photo by R.S. Copeland, ICIPE	The catch in a Nzi trap baited with cow urine and acetone in the Kenyan Rift Valley in June 1997. The netting contains 1,700 horse flies, stable flies and tsetse that have entered the trap within the last few hours. The collecting bag and bottle are overwhelmed by a catch over a few days of about 20 - 30,000 flies Step by Step Instructions How to Make "DIY" Traps out of cloth or rigid materials (plywood, plexiglas) "Nzi" is Swahili for fly Practical Resources Traps for Sale (External site)

	Technical Photographs High resolution images of tsetse and other biting flies

Catches on the 4^th of May, 2006 at the Lower Suwannee Wildlife Refuge between Chiefland and Cedar Key, Florida, USA The bag contains thousands of horse flies, mostly of the species Tabanus lineola (Photos by D. Strickman, USDA)

Weekly catch in a plywood Nzi trap built by Bart Morris on 18^th of July, 2012 set on a farm near Barnstable, Cape Cod, USA The bag contains thousands of horse flies, mostly greenheads (Tabanus nigrovittatus)

Tabanus similis	Resources and detailed information from a residential setting in Ontario


LATEST: OLOO, F., SCIARETTA, A., MOHAMED-AHMED, M.M., KRÖBER, T., MCMULLLIN, A., MIHOK, S. & P. GUERIN (2014) Standardizing visual control devices for tsetse fies: East African Species Glossina fuscipes fuscipes and Glossina tachinoides. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 8(11): e3334.
	S. Mihok and K. Lange (2012 - Journal) Synergism between ammonia and phenols for Hybomitra tabanids in northern and temperate Canada. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 26, 282-290. PubMed

Mihok, S., Carlson, D.A., Krafsur, E.S. & Foil, L.D. (2006) Performance of the Nzi and other traps for biting flies in North America. Bulletin of Entomological Research 96, 387-397. PubMed	Mihok, S. (2002) The development of a multipurpose trap (the Nzi) for tsetse and other biting flies. Bulletin of Entomological Research 92, 385-403. PubMed

Record Daily Catches
Fly	Number	Place / Date	Odour Baits
Tsetse Flies	5,355	Nguruman, Kenya May 26, 1995	Acetone, Cow Urine, Octenol
Black Flies Video	~30,000	Hay River, NWT, Canada July 14, 2009	Octenol, Phenols
Stable Flies	2,716	Nairobi, Kenya July 25, 1995	Octenol
	1,496	Lethbridge, Canada September 21, 1999	Unbaited
Horse Flies Video	3,163	Hay River, NWT, Canada July 11, 2009	Unbaited
	4,182	Hay River, NWT, Canada July 19, 2009	Octenol, Phenols
	2,088	Cape Cod, USA July 16, 2008 (set for 3 hours only)	Octenol
	626	Quelimane, Mozambique September 22, 1997	Acetone, Phenols
	557	Lahirasso, Burkina Faso November 1, 1997	Unbaited
Mosquitoes (Image 79k)	712	Russell, Ontario, Canada July 18, 2002	Carbon Dioxide Octenol
		Dr. Steve Mihok BSc 1975 University of Toronto PhD 1979 University of Alberta 388 Church Street, Russell, Ontario, K4R 1A8 CANADA If you have found the Nzi trap useful Please tell me. Send me a picture! smihok@rogers.com

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