http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ Daily Kitten Chat Forum Topic: For Ron – horse flies in NZ? Kinda gross en Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:07:08 +0000 http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/13367#post-318058 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:59:37 +0000 Moonshadow_NZ 318058@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>EEEEEeeewwwwww.<br /> And I've unstuck plenty of lambs tails and cleaned off the maggots but those horse flies, yuk yuk yuk. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/13367#post-317972 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:51:09 +0000 jcat 317972@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Oh, that's horrible too TKN. They would probably kill all our ground-nesting birds too then, and everything would become extinct in very short order. Our Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), bless them, try very hard to keep all those nasties out. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/13367#post-317955 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:16:47 +0000 TheKnittingNinja 317955@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>be glad you dont have fire ants, they are an introduced species here and they will kill kittens and puppies born outside. I havent seen them in Lubbock (i think it is too dry here) but they are a big problem in austin </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/13367#post-317943 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:01:43 +0000 jcat 317943@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Oh how horrible, PJ. No, I'm sure we don't have any of those, I've never heard of that happening to cats and dogs in NZ.</p> <p>Thanks Ron, it was really kind of you to suggest that as a cause for Shadz's abcess. I think it's probably that she got into an argument with another cat. When my Max used to have abcesses (all the time) it was because he fought with other cats all the time (and yes, he was neutered but he was a real boy, all the same, hunting and fighting...) </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/13367#post-317925 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:33:16 +0000 AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew 317925@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Ewwwww, ok at least we are now educated on flies...what nasty little critters they can be plus annoying :( </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/13367#post-317910 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:00:32 +0000 paulajeanne 317910@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I hate horseflies! When I was little our dog had a litter of puppies under the barn foundation and my dad dug them out too late. Their poor little bodies had been taken over by the maggots, so I know what you're talking about, Ron. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/13367#post-317907 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:57:39 +0000 Renee in Arkansas 317907@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>hi<br /> as I said it is kind a gross but thought I would share the knowlage of a possible cause of the abcess </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/13367#post-317856 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:51:38 +0000 jcat 317856@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Hi, Ron, gee, you sure know how to ask a question. I had to ask my dad (he's a farm boy as well as a biologist so that was handy) and he had to go away and look it up and we almost rang the National Museum!</p> <p>Yes, we have what WE call horse flies but they are not what you call horse flies (from what I can make out). We have botflies, which attack horses (they don't lay eggs in wounds, they lay them on the horse's skin and then the horse licks the skin and they go inside the mouth or intestine and the grubs come out when they're hatched). We have two species of these that attack horses and one species that attacks sheep and goats.</p> <p>They're all introduced cause originally there were no horses or sheep or goats here for them to live on!</p> <p>We don't have your horse flies (tabanids). Thank goodness, they sound totally ick.</p> <p>Our greatest problem is fly strike on sheep but that's caused by the common house fly (also introduced).</p> <p>Sorry about the long post but having found all that out I was determined to get it all down, tee hee. I am now very well educated on flies. I'm so glad there are no kittycat flies. </p>