Beyond economics, horn and face flies impact cattle comfort and health and cause:

• Agitation
• Itching
• Disease transmission
• Bunching to avoid flies instead of grazing.

These impacts can reduce weight gain and milk production, making fly control ear tags an important part of a target control point fly mitigation and management program.

Elanco offers customized parasite solutions to control flies and a product line that fits within the rotation portion of an integrated pest management (IPM) program

Key Product Benefits:

• Controls pyrethroid-resistant and chlorinated hydrocarbon-resistant and avermectin-resistant horn flies.
• Controls face flies, the mechanical vector of Moraxella bovis, the bacteria that cause pink eye in cattle for up to 5 months.
• Ear tags with FyberTek, which allows for maximum insecticide holding capacity and even dispersion of the insecticide.
• Can be used on beef and non-lactating dairy cattle.
• Contains 50% organophosphate insecticide.
• Utilizes the Allflex® Universal Total Tagger.

Package sizes

• One box contains two 10-tag pouches: 20 tags, 0.5 oz./tag.

Dosage

• 1 tag per ear (2 per animal)
• For calves, 1 tag per animal

Corathon® is an insecticide cattle ear tag with FyberTek® in the organophosphate class for the control of face and horn flies and Gulf Coast and Spinous ear ticks on both beef cattle and non-lactating dairy cattle. Horn flies and face flies are a season-long threat to cattle producers because they can significantly impact the well-being and economic value of the herd. These flies interrupt grazing and can reduce weight gain. In fact, horn flies can reduce yearlings' weights by up to 18%.¹ Up to $68/head can be lost due to under control of flies, and a total industry loss of $1 billion for the entire United States.² No producer wants to lose money, especially when there is a solution to the problem.²

1 Boxler, D. 2017. "Managing horn flies." University of Nebraska-Lincoln Beefwatch. Available at: http://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/beef/6527/37663. Accessed December 5, 2017.

2 Simmons, N. June 2018. "Fly control is important for cattle herds over the summer." University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension. Available at: https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/2018/06/08/fly-control-is-important-for-cattle-herds-over-the-summer/. Accessed October 1, 2019.