We have a chile plant what's been living outside in the day and in the kitchen on a night time.
As it's not so warm now we've bought it indoors permanently.
This seems to have led to bringing a load of midge in with it.
I know they won't harm the plant but they are annoying and don't want them to spread to other nearby house plants.
So how do I get rid of the annoying little ****ers without harming the plant?
Fungus gnats? Just get some sticky things.
Let the plant dry out - those fly things will thrive in moist conditions , and get a sundew sticky fly trap type plant. Don’t bother with chemicals. Personal experience.
Spray with a mixture of water and washing up liquid.
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This means nothing to me.
This means nothing to me
You're joking?
If they're in fact fruit flies, you can make an effective trap which will catch them all in a few days.
A bit of cider vinegar and a few drops of washing up liquid in a jar. Cling film tight across the top and a few small holes stabbed into the film using a bamboo skewer or similar.
Fungus gnats as above. Sticky things and a layer of grit on the top of the compost can help as you break the cycle.
Tried the Cider vinegar and washing up liquid yesterday
This morning there are approximately zero flying bastards in it.😂
It's back outside and some yellow sticky things have been ordered.
Was this the B side to Rat in mi kitchen?
It was a remix that wasn't done by UB40.
No need for traps or any thing like that - Gnats have a very short life cycle so just prevent them from breeding. Once its indoors all the time let the top of the soil in the pot dry out, water from the bottom only - ie pour water into whatever tray/trough the pot is sitting in. The gnats breed in the top inch or so of the soil, but can't if its dry.
If the sticky traps don’t work ( they didn’t in my case) then gave a look at getting some nematodes into the soil - I got mine from Amazon, just search for fungus gnat nematodes.
This means nothing to me
You're joking
Ha! Ha! Ha!
If they’re in fact fruit flies, you can make an effective trap which will catch them all in a few days.
few days....ha ha ha.......ah ah ah 😠😠😡😡
Wife brought home a pineapple from asda that was infested, since then no food/fruit left out in kitchen and it has been cleaned top to bottom. Almost 3 weeks later and the little ****ers keep appearing.
This means nothing to me.
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(In an interview I read years ago, I seem to remember that he was actually thinking about Venice when he wrote the lyrics. He hadn't been to Vienna at that point. 😀 )
This is no help to the OP, sorry...
Read this thread yesterday, and seeing the bit about the washing up liquid/vinegar fruit fly trap, I thought it sounded like an old wives' tale, but the fruit flies in the kitchen have been annoying me all summer - only a few, but a constant presence - so I gave it a go. Came back an hour later and at least a dozen dead fruit flies in it. Evening: no fruit flies, even when I opened the compost caddy which is when they tend to appear. So thanks for that.
