Spalding Laboratories

The year was 1976 and there was a growing awareness of the dangers of pesticide use to both people and the environment. The Spalding`s were having an awful problem with flies around their Arabian horses and wanted to find a solution that would be safe for their horses, themselves, and the environment. At the time, researchers were exploring non-chemical methods of fly control and fly parasites were emerging as a promising form of biological control. The Spalding`s obtained a culture of the fly parasites from a researcher and began raising and releasing these little `bugs` on their farm. Within a few months of beginning their regular releases, their fly problem all but disappeared! That was their eureka moment that they were really onto something with this method.