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How to Remove Gnats from Your Home

These little black beasts can be infuriating, but luckily it's not terribly hard to evict them from your home. Here's how.
Nothing can interrupt an outdoor party quite like a swarm of gnats. Not to be confused with fruit flies or mosquitos, these tiny flying insects have slender bodies, long legs, and wings that ...
The warmer months often bring beautiful flowers and bundles of ripe, delicious fruit. Unfortunately, this also means it’s time for the gnats and fruit flies to emerge and attempt to take up residence ...
Make a DIY trap: Fill a jar halfway with vinegar, sugar water, or beer, add a few drops of dish soap, and leave it out. Try essential oils: Many gnats dislike the smell of certain essential oils, such ...
Gnats are attracted to the color yellow, making it the natural choice for adhesive cards used to trap the plant pests. Dima Berlin If you’ve noticed hordes of tiny insects flying around your home — ...
Fungus gnats are a common pest among houseplants. These small flies tend to go unnoticed at first, slowly building their populations by laying eggs on the soil of our container plants. Their larvae ...
The bane of my existence is the fungus gnat (Bradysia spp.). This insidious little creature’s larva love to inhabit overly wet soils. Their larval feeding habits can damage plant roots, even stunting ...
Gnats just don’t have a problem with getting all up in your personal space. “They do have a haphazard way of flying,” said Taylor Jones, the consumer horticulture agent at the Guilford County Center ...