HOW do you get rid of Knats ????
PLEASE HELP. They are everywhere!!!

First, you need to make sure that what you have are gnats and not fruit flies, drain flies or midges. Then you need to look for the place they are breeding or feeding and try to eliminate the problem.

Here are some places to look:

Identifying Insect Pests

Fungus Gnats

Getting Rid of Gnats

Natural Pest Controls

I stop gnats breeding in my potted plants by using Gnatrol, a form of Bt

Get a cereal bowl and place about 1 1/2 inches of wine in the bowl. Cover the top with plastic wrap. Take a toothpick and make holes slightly larger than the circumference of the toothpick and leave it.

Fruit flies will get in, but not out. Put bowls in kitchen and bathrooms. It takes a few days.

DONT CRITICIZE NOAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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WHY DID NOAH BRING YOU TO THE ARK!!

DONT CRITICIZE NOAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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WHY DID NOAH BRING YOU TO THE ARK!!

YOU KILL THE POOR BUG !!! THEY HAVE FEELINGS!

what kind of a sick place do you live in
with groundhogs and gophers in yer house sickk
disapointed in you people get a better house and making them live in yer house is suffer enough

Having a problem with unwanted visitors and looking for any help you can offer:)

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Picture this an immaculate home, I mean seriously I am too clean for my own good. Fruit NEVER stays out of the fridge, dishes get done before they hit the sink, trash and garbage are in airtight containers and taken out daily, toilet lid stays down and drains get cleaned all the time with bleach. We insulated all the windows for winter. We don't have any pets.

We have one house plant that was over-watered by a plan sitter when we were away for a week back in September. That is when my GNAT problem started. We let the plant dry out completely, which took a month. Since then we have been back to our regular watering cycle. I sprayed and have continued to spray a garden safe insect spray on the plant. Mind you I have never seen so much as one gnat crawling on or around this plant. I have no idea where they are coming from. But they are coming I see about 50 a day.

I have been all over our apartment with a fine tooth comb. Vacuuming, moving things, looking behind things to try to find some other food source for these pests. It's been 4 months and I am at the end of my rope. Guests come for dinner and see these things flying around and it makes us look dirty, even though our home is anything but.

I heard to put up fly strips, but that is not an option as it would lead to me throwing-up. Does anyone else have any other suggestions to get rid of them and keep them gone for good?

Thanks,

Theresa

I can't tell, but we only have bananas out (and eat them before they are ripe). My boyfriend eats a LOT of eggwhites, we dump the yolk down the drain -- could they be drain flies? I tried the bleach down the drain. I tried the orange juice in a cup. It is really awful having them land on me, fly toward my face and know they are crawling on me when I sleep! I live in the desert, in Palm Springs. We got rid of our plants thinking this could be the problem when they started. Didn't help, as the problem is getting progressively worse. It has gotten to the point where I don't even want to come home anymore. I have read all 8 pages of posts, but nothing seems to be a remedy for getting rid of them for good -- or even for a season. Someone told me that if we had fans going on all the time they couldn't fly and would go away. Is that possibly the answer?

Any help would be appreciated. I'm going crazy!

Genevieve

I live in coastal Georgia and all spring and summer the area is plagued with these bugs. People call them gnats, sand-fleas, or noseeums.But I don't know which name (if any) is actually correct.
They make people itch. Some say they bite like mosquitos, others claim there is a chemical or someting on the bug that makes you itch if it lands on you.
The weather is so nice here, but because of the bugs, we can't enjoy being outside.I get swarmed just walking to the mailbox.
Some of the commercial bug sprays work to keep the bugs off, but they can't work on what you can't spray.If I use the spray, they just go after my face and head.The absolute worst is when they get in your hair.
Does anyone have any ideas to get these bugs to stay away?A plant or scent that repells them, maybe? Since we're talking outdoors, there is really no hope of killing ALL of them. I'd settle for just keeping them away.
Please help! I miss my patio!

I have struggled with fruit flies for YEARS and this year I just had enough. I've tried different kinds of vinegars, juice, etc. in bowls with funnels, holes cut in tops of jars, etc. Nothing ever worked.

So I decided to get crafty. I opened two bottles of wine - one Charles Shaw (Two Buck Chuck from Trader Joes) Cab and the other a little more expensive cab that I didn't really like. After noticing that the little buggers were extremely attracted to my nightly glass of wine... VOILA! Next to the two open bottles I put a bowl of apple cider vinegar with holes in the top of a plastic top. Guess which one attracted ALL of the flies in my house? They did not like the other wine, nor the vinegar.

The cool thing about the wine bottle is you can just leave it open in your kitchen and I think that the top acts as a funnel to trap them - must be hard to get out. I have not had a SINGLE fruit fly since having the open bottle in my kitchen.

Utterly amazing.

Hello, Just wanted to say thanks about those pesky fruit flies, Weve had them at work for about 4 months and they are a pain - silent but annoying. The orange juice in a cup has just about eliminated the little blighters.

they are going to drive me crazy. I'm going to try the homemade traps. I bought a glass jar type trap for hornets. It's pretty. I wonder if this will work in the kitchen using the vinegar solution???

I need help!!!! We are having so many problems with flies on our back porch around my dogs food bowls. We have tried everything it seems... We put cups with Vinagar around, we have fly traps, bug zappers, bags of tap water and even corn meal but they still seem to come around, 100 at a time... SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!! Any suggestions??

Ok we have a whole mess of flies in our house I have no idea how they are getting in. I am getting rid of them. Here is what I have done. I bought a $1 bottle of Glass cleaner with Ammonia at the dollar store, this kills them usually in the first shot definitely the second. I would use caution using the Ammonia around animal feces or urine, or in animals that are being kept in the room I would remove them when spraying the flies. After you get done spraying I would make sure you clean with dish soap, DO NOT USE BLEACH or anything that has bleach in it that instant reaction between Ammonia and bleach will definitely make you drop dead. Feces and urine combined with Ammonia create a toxic gas that can make you sick if not fatal if you breathe it in so do not use directly where animals have used the bathroom, But this is fine to use, as long as you use it safely and clean where you sprayed. Ammonia itself is potent so be careful in breathing it in. Secondly I use the water bags over doors or midway nailed above the door with a penny, with a lil bit of vinegar. Hang them in the light, and above windows. I also use baited fly traps made out of a milk jug. Bait the inside of it with a little bit of honey,syrup,tuna or canned cat food, the stinker the better..... mixed with a small amount of Ammonia. Mixture should be not runny but more of a thick glaze. Pour that mixture in and make sure the jug is coated use knife or a puncture device and round the holes out You make holes in the gallon jug about the size of a nickel or dime. Make about 10 holes random on the jug so the flies can get in.. tie a piece of string around the top of the milk jug you can use fishing line or something that is sturdy and will hold it up there shouldn’t be that heavy, if you want to hang it up, i found it effective leaving it on the floor or on a table, of course if you have animals that get into trash I wouldnt do that. The files get in eat the stuff and die, and no clean up required just throw it in the trash. Make sure to wash your hands after doing anything with Ammonia and do not touch eyes , use rubber gloves if you want to.

hey i am the manager of a little coffee shop inside of a retail store, and we have a horrible time with flies, outdoor flies and fruit flies. we clean like mad people but cant seem to get rid of them. we have alot of syrups that are sweet and pastries that attract them. however we are limited by the health department with what we can use to get rid of them, (ie: traps). any ideas?

Fruit fly/Vinegar fly (Drosophila Melanogasta) are quite amazing creatures for one reason i know of. I had half a fruit crumble left and put it to cool, then covered it with a plate but forgot to put it in the fridge, so it stayed unnoticed for several days, then when I spotted it and lifted the plate, there were dozens of fruit flies in there. Not wanting to release them in the house, I put the casserole dish in the microwave thinking "a few seconds and zappo, gone", but after 10 seconds, nothing, no effect, after 30, still nothing, 1 minute, no, 2 and a half, Ah-ha, the heat in the container was killing them off, but nearly 5 minutes in a microwave did nothing to them. Unbelievable.

Anyway, Get a container/jar, put an an inch of stale beer, fruit juice or rotting fruit in it and add a couple of drops of vinegar if you have any, chop the corner off a plastic bag, big enough to easily cover the jar, fix it over the jar with an elastic band, pointing in to the jar and poke a small hole in the point of the plastic using two matches or something a similar size, after removing the matches, poke the plastic back into the jar and leave near fruit or a rubbish bin.

Sorry, that should read Drosophila Melanogaster

get rid of fruit flies

get a small plate and fill with apple cider vinegar - add a little water (more vinegar than water - till it comes to the edge of the plate - then add a few drops of dish washing liquid - it attracts the fruit flies - they dive right in to the death!!! let the plate sit over night - change it ever couple days - you dont want to llok at dead bugs floating! yuck!