When Is Blowfly Season?

Pizzle strike - prepuce of wethers or rams. Foot strike – from untreated footrot lesions. If left untreated blowfly strike is often fatal. Traditionally, the blowfly strike risk period is between May and September.

How long is the blowfly life cycle?

Eggs are laid typically during the winter. Larvae develop through a second and third stage before pupating and then later emerging as adults. The full blow fly life cycle can take two to three weeks from egg to adult to complete, and most adults live from two weeks to a month.

Will click kill maggots?

Critical to using these products is that they are applied BEFORE there is any strike. They products do not kill maggots that have already hatched.