Play-on ~ New Product!
Our new product is an outdoor fragrance, Play-on based on a similar natural organic formula as ByeByeDeerFly but emphasizing a pleasant scent of cloves and rosemary. Unlike soaps, perfumes and cosmetics which may attract biting insects, we can guarantee Play-on will not attract ticks, black flies, deer flies or mosquitoes.
Play-on is $10 +$3 sh as an introductory offer.
If you order 3 bottles, you get a forth free. [$30 + $4sh]
Visit our Play-on Facebook site for full details: PLAY-ON FACEBOOK LINK
I am also arranging with Norris's Bait on highway 42, Westport Ontario, to carry Play-on: Norris Bait Shop Link
- Ian
Update ~ Summer 2010
Bye Bye Deer Fly will not be available until it has completed registering with Health Canada. Unfortunately that has turned out to be an expensive multi-year process.
We had a successful year of testing at Guelph. ByeBye DeerFly was shown to be 99.5% protective for mosquitoes and 86% for deer flies.
The feedback we have received has been very positive.
- Ian
Health Canada Certification
Bye Bye Deer Fly currently undergoing Health Canada Certification.
In order to bring a repellant to market in Canada, it requires a certification
by Pest Management Regulatory Agency, a division of Health Canada, in Canada.
Based upon the research (see below) we have submitted it for approval and anticipate that it will
be granted early in the Spring of 2009.
We ask that you check back here at that time, when we expect to have Bye Bye Deer Fly available for sale.
- Ian
SAY BYE BYE
TO THOSE ANNOYING DEER FLIES!
FINALLY, AN EFFECTIVE, NATURAL, DEET-FREE, 100% ESSENTIAL OIL SOLUTION TO WARD OFF THOSE PESTS.
In a recently completed formal test by Mr. Jamie Heal of the University of Guelph's Department of Environmental Biology and though his company Arcturus Testing, he states "Repellents are not effective against these deer and large biting flies" ....until now! "In terms of biting, the product performed extremely well. Circling behaviour was also reduced."
Prior to testing he said "If you have a product that repels deer flies, that would be remarkable. DEET-based products will repel deer flies for about 10 minutes after which re-application is needed. That is far too large a dose and inconvenient."
Jamie spent ten years at the University of Guelph involved with medical and veterinary entomology, conducting research on the efficacy of insecticides and repellents. He has tested hundreds of products and is currently Canada's only repellent tester according to the PMRA (Pest Management Regulatory Agency, a division of Health Canada).
- Geoff Iwamoto
Summer Torment
Deer Flies and Horse Flies are usually just annoying to humans. We can swat at them and run around looking like we are possessed to get away from them, but in the end they usually bite us once.
However, for horses, dogs and cats, cows and other livestock they can cause a very high degree of stress and anxiety in the animal. Horse will often drop to their sides and roll around trying to get these flies off them, since they tend to go for the eyes or testicals. Experienced riders can probably recognize this behavour and dismount quickly, but imagine the danger to a child rider if a horse was to roll on them.
Aside from danger to riders these flies also cause damage to livestock of all kinds. Estimates of blood loss from Horse flies is about 100ml of blood per day, which weakens the animals and will often stop them from feeding.
While deer and horse flies are not believed to transmit viruses between humans this could change at any time. Deer and Horse flies can transmit diseases like anthrax, ananaplasmosis, bovine leukemia and trypanosomiasis between animals.
Since there has not been effective deer fly and horse fly controls until our product ByeBye DeerFly, the economic tole these flies have on agriculture has not been well studied. Most experts agree however, that the treatment of individual animals is superior to the use of chemicals like pytheroids on ecologically sensitive wetlands in an attempt to break the fly's reproductive cycle.
Reference: Encyclopedia of Pest Management pp. 117-118