Anyone have trouble with gnats, not fruit flies

geegerbee · ‎03-09-2010

I got rid of an old plant, put out a dish of soda with dishwasher soap in it (got 4 gnats), put out vaseline on a yellow post-it (supposed to attract them, but not one got caught.) Meanwhile I have seen them fly past my computer screen, 2 in the toilet bowl, one or 2 while I am read ing the paper, a few on the windows trying to get out, but last night 1 actually woke me crawling on my forehead. I don't know what else to do. I don't eat in the bedroom, sheets are changed weekly, but they just never go away.

Anyone else solve this problem?

software · ‎06-08-2016

I didn't have any problem this year but last year they were brutal. I purchase fly paper just for gnats either at Walmart or Lowe's. Not attractive but did the job. They were pretty cheap,.

@geegerbee wrote:
I got rid of an old plant, put out a dish of soda with dishwasher soap in it (got 4 gnats), put out vaseline on a yellow post-it (supposed to attract them, but not one got caught.) Meanwhile I have seen them fly past my computer screen, 2 in the toilet bowl, one or 2 while I am read ing the paper, a few on the windows trying to get out, but last night 1 actually woke me crawling on my forehead. I don't know what else to do. I don't eat in the bedroom, sheets are changed weekly, but they just never go away.

Anyone else solve this problem?

eyeron · ‎01-11-2015

YES....It's called GROWSTONE INC GNAT NIX!!!

Last year we had these gnats in our house...for months!!! Very embarrassing. It started when my husband changed the soil and repotted a few plants. We tried all the suggesstions we found on line... sprays, tape etc....and nothing worked at all. Finally, my husband asked a guy at the garden store and he sold us a product that is actually crushed glass that you put on top of the soil. What it does is it stops the fungus gnats from getting out (traps them in the soil) and it doesn't let the ones that are out and about get back in and they die off. This is fairly new. In just a few days ....no more gnats!!! This was last year and I had to google the name of it. It did not hurt the plants at all. We had to put it on all the plants in the house.

geegerbee · ‎03-09-2010

Thanks for that tip. I will order it tomorrow. Can't wait to get rid of these pests.

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

@geegerbee, In the house they come in on produce. Washing produce ahead of useage isn't recommended, so an option is lost!

This, however works and I've used it for years.

Take a small bottle with a narrow mouth (Coke, water bottle).

Put about half an ounce of wine to cover the bottom and just slightly warm it in the microwave, around 6 seconds).

Sit the bottle where the produce is several days. They will go in the bottle and drown!

Works like a charm. After a week, you need to start over but you can use the same bottle.

ID2 · ‎06-25-2012

Gnats, fruit flies, whatever you want to call them mine are back. I had a horrible problem last end of summer. Just this past week I noticed more and more in the house. I set up my traps (got off of Amazon) and have caught all that have entered my house so far. Here we go again.

"Pure Michigan"

moejoe · ‎10-05-2010

FYI, a layer of sand will do the same thing as the crushed glass, only cheaper and more readily available.

Hooty · ‎03-09-2010

@geegerbee, Yes, but they are not as bad as they were earlier in the summer!

dreamieLil · ‎01-02-2014

@BeccaLou wrote:
Yes I have been tomented also with these little creatures, They love spoiling Potato's and Bannanas. I quit Buying potato's in large quanities and only a few bannan's that I will consume today. I had problems in the winter also. I was making cranberrie sauce and a cranberrie got under the frig and they were crazy in my kitchen until I went hunting around, and like you they were in my toilet bowl and Keurig. I think they are in fruit and hatch when they get warm, and they surely love the heat wave that we were plagued with this summer.But why in the toilet bowl is beyond Me. And it must be universal because Year Around they sell Gnat liquid traps, and the homemade traps don't work in the breed of knats that is out the last few years.But as soon as I find the problem with potato's and bannan's they disappear at once.

@BeccaLou, which commercial products did you find that worked?