Mosquito-Borne Disease and Your Horse
The Horse Staff
August 30, 2012
Mosquitoes are more than just annoying, blood-sucking pests—they also carry infectious diseases that can incapacitate or kill your horses.
Mosquitoes are more than just annoying, blood-sucking pests—they also carry infectious diseases that can incapacitate or kill your horses.
While fall armyworm is a pest of cattle and horse pastures, it should not affect horses.
An integrated pest management program can help insects, such as flies and mosquitoes, from bugging you and your horses. Here are a few inexpensive tips.
Horse owners in many parts of the United States already deal with concerns of blister beetles in alfalfa hay as part of their everyday regimen.
Is your horse a noisy and uncomfortable breather? Does he struggle to breathe when you’re riding? Is his performance suffering because of it?
According to a recent study, a coat pattern with numerous narrow stripes deteres horseflies from landing.
Reduce your horse farm’s fly and mosquito populations by eliminating insect breeding areas and using pest control strategies, such as insecticides, biological controls, and good hygiene.
As rain continues across the state, insects might find their way into people’s waterlogged backyards, homes,
By providing swallows with nest boxes, you can help their populations increase and make a huge dent in the numbers of insects around your property this summer.
The crooked little bacterium that causes Lyme disease is causing quite a stir in the equine community.
Lyme disease is caused by a spiral-shaped bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi that is spread to some mammals via the bite of specific hard-bodied ticks. Also known as borreliosis, it is widely considered the most important insect-borne bacterial infection in North America. But it is unknown whether ticks transmit the bacterium to horses and cause disease or because the two coexist.
How well a fly spray kills certain insects depends on the species of the insect and length of application.
In the world of blood-sucking tabanid flies, a white horse is not nearly as attractive as a brown or black horse, noted a group of researchers from Hungary, Spain, and Sweden.
This interesting tabanid tidbit is likely to be welcomed
About 980 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “What mosquito control measures do you utilize?”
A California equestrian was attacked by a swarm of aggressive Africanized honeybees–also known as “killer bees”–while riding on a public trail in Rolling Hills, Calif., last week.,
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