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Please help! Gnats? Gotta go

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  • Started 5 months ago by latinstarlite
  • Latest reply from samoya22

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  • Bugs
  • gnats
  • fruit flies

  1. latinstarlite (Member)

    Hey everyone. My family recently moved into our first home.....you'd think we'd all be happy right? Wrong!! About 2 weeks or so after moving in we noticed little bugs flying around. We thought they were fruit flies and figured they would go away after tossing some potatoes and fruit that were starting to go bad. Wrong again! I kill at least 5 to 10 of these things every day. Some are teeny tiny little bugs and others are a bit bigger. The bigger ones must be on suicide missions or something cause they love to fly right up in your face. I've also noticed that I'm being bitten. Of course I'm the only one getting bitten. But this is a huge problem for me as my skin heals slow and I tend to scab and scar from the tiniest little scratch.

    I don't have any house plants, I have put them all on my patio. I can't imagine where they are coming from but I need some sort of idea of where they could be coming from and how I can get rid of them. Thanks for your help.

    Posted 5 months ago #
  2. samoya22 (Jonathan)

    Well, latinstarlite, let's get a couple of questions answered before anyone else tries to answer this:

    1. Where do you live, or where is your new home?
    2. Do you have screens on your windows and doors, or are you doors and windows open often?

    If I were going to take a wild guess, I would say fungus gnats are your problem. Here's a link to what I think might be an answer to your problem:
    http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7448.html

    Posted 5 months ago #

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