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Posted by dudleydorite z8Tx (My Page) on Fri, Dec 24, 04 at 2:00
| this may be the place to post this. seem to have an infestaton of black gnats. they may be from a bunch of bananas i peeled to dehydrate or with plants i brought in my kitchen to avoid the iminent freeze.
anyway, finally attached the hose to my vacuum and kept getting the tip near the little buzzards. took a while but as my aim and technique got better, sucked them all up. woohoo.
regards, dick. |
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RE: gNATS
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There are gnats, that usually come from moist potting soil, and there are "fruit flies", actually vinegar flies, that appear when overripe fruit is left out, and then there are grain moths that appear when flour, cereal, and other grain products are not properly stored.
Of course the best way to combat these is to prevent their appearance at all by properly storing your fruit and grain products and allowing the pots to dry between waterings. If you do get them blue and yellow sticky traps help control them as well as some few other things such as diamoataceous earth (food grade), in the pots and grain products and insecticidal soap sprays. But the vacuum works well too. |
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