Well, it’s good for you, because people will be needing those traps…
Maybe all the horseflies is the seal judgment from Revelations or something…
Warm season.
You might go bankrupt if relying on taiwans horsefly problem. They just aren’t numerous enough. But they still suck when they bite. More importantly, they spread disease. Which is where the real money is, parasites haha. But not joking. Taiwan is ripe with parasites. Also ripe with chemicals to kill/control/cure them. So it’s a saturated field I guess?
Horseflies, if you can help ot Canada, you are a millionaire. Killing them all might just cause an ecological catastrophe, might want to do your research on that…their quantities there are legitimately massive lol.
If you are truly interested I can keep a few I kill when they bite me and get you pictures…or send you preserved ones I you could find them useful for microscopy purposes (ie flight, mouth peices etc). I see more in the east than the west. More in the south than the north. I don’t know the species, but specimens could be taken to government facilities to identify, especially if you are a company 
they are often around water sources, near not in. For example around rivers irritation trenches etc. I see them mostly about 1 hour before dark. Dusk is prime time.
I’ve trapped thousands of Tabanidae in Japan the last three years and studied them extensively. This book has everything you need to know about Tabanidae in Taiwan.
The males are pollinators and the females the blood suckers and my trap only catches blood suckers. If you want, you can use the trap as a catch and release tool by not filling the bottom of the bucket with water and emptying it daily in another location.
The mode I’m in now is setting up demonstrations for potential distributors and customers so they can see how it works.
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Uhm—
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Trapping horseflies is more effective than repelling them, especially when protecting pets, livestock, people in hot springs or swimming pools, or anyone who forgets to keep moving constantly while outdoors. My trap will eradicate all horseflies in a two acre zone during horsefly season and once they’re gone they’re gone for the season. Next season’s horsefly population will also be reduced due to trapping.
Why can’t the herd just wear a snap on dragonfly collar?
Why murder the horse flies? Do they not deserve to live? 
I find that unless you’re a restaurant, or maybe scooter manufacturer, relying on domestic markets in Taiwan is a recipe for failure. Market is too small, demand far too concentrated for any niche items to make it. Every successful businesses in Taiwan all has to do with export. It’s easy to manufacture stuff here, but it’s not easy to sell it here. I definitely wouldn’t spend too much resource marketing in Taiwan, unless you make something most Taiwanese would want.
That looks like a fantastic read, cheers! Look forward to looking that one up when I get back home.
Out of curiosity- what will be the first invasive species IN SPACE? Actually living in a space capsule- flies? Cockroaches? Rats?
Humans?
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I would have thought there are already some mites and stuff up there. Not sure about bigger things.
Tartagrades? Those things could survive in the vacuum of space so blowing them out the airlock won’t kill them.
I was actually thinking about those as well but couldn’t remember the name. (Like you, but you got far closer: Tardigrade)
Looks like they’re already on the moon:
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Yea sorry I couldn’t spell those words right and autocorrect was providing zero help.
That’s my guess as well, or at least species humans have spread and introduced to other places. This is assuming we are actually insanely special and the whole universe only created our own singular special rock and no other life exists.
I do worry about our track record of not being diligent in the slightest about nearly everything we touch. I would say that goes for import, as well as export, from our sphericalish mass.
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New tardigrade species discovered in Taiwan. Someone was raising pet tardigrades from a pound in Xinzhuang park, and shared videos on social media. Some scientist from Italy saw the post and immediately noticed the egg of this type of tardigrade is different from all the other tardigrades. After SEM microscope analysis as well as genome analysis, it is now officially named Dactylobiotus taiwanensis.
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That is pretty cool. Taiwans millions of micro climates have a bounty diversity and new species. Pretty amazing considering how densely populated the country is!
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