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No-see-ums in NYC rooftop garden

windowsilly
13 years ago

I live in NYC, in a brownstone, with a roof garden where neighbors have everything growing in pots including roses, vegetables, corn, pine trees, you name it. Well, the tenants on the top floor of the building have been attacked by an infestation of no-see-ums, or midges, or punkies or sand flies. It's a tiny gnat that bites ferociously and leaves with you a nasty, itchy welt.

For beginners, I've ordered new screens for my apartment to keep them out, but I worry about what to do with the plants in their soil pots, where, no doubt, these bugs are laying their larvae. I'm thinking of getting a good broad-based pesticide and spraying the surface of the soil all over plants on this roof.

Any one out there have experience with this problem? Could you recommend a pesticide to kill the larvae or any other measure?

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