How to get rid of gnats?

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[Post New]09/15/2014 14:17
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Anonymous
We have a fruit fly/gnat problem. I read one way to get rid of them is to put some red wine in a shot glass, add a squirt of dish-soap soap and sit out. Left 3 shot glasses of the concoction out last night and nothing. Maybe the scent of the dish soap deterred them, cause I know they do hover around red wine. Anyone have any remedies that work? Maybe I should just leave out a glass of red wine, minus the dish-soap?
[Post New]09/15/2014 14:24
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Anonymous
call mosquito squad
[Post New]09/15/2014 14:36
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Anonymous
Fly paper. Yes, unsightly and gross, but effective. Just the old fashioned roll-out-of-small tube fly ribbon/paper.

Hang it over old fruit or a glass of old wine. Once in a while, shoo the flies away and they will land back on the paper.

For added effect, leave a light on the strip at night while the whole house is dark.

But most of all remove all fruit/ move to fridge (the die in the fridge).
[Post New]09/15/2014 14:38
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krokodil
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They are AWFUL! We have them too. Only thing that works are those long rolls of flypaper that you pull out and hang somewhere they congregate.
[Post New]09/15/2014 14:48
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Anonymous
Also clean your drains with enzymatic drain cleaner. They like to lay eggs in the slime that goes down your disposal.
[Post New]09/15/2014 14:49
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Anonymous
We put apple cider vinegar in a cup with a baggie rubber banded around it. Cut a hole in one of the corners and push the hole in towards the vinegar. The gnats are are attracted to the vinegar but then they get trapped by the plastic bag. I found this on the Internet and it seems to have worked.
[Post New]09/15/2014 15:33
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Anonymous wrote:We put apple cider vinegar in a cup with a baggie rubber banded around it. Cut a hole in one of the corners and push the hole in towards the vinegar. The gnats are are attracted to the vinegar but then they get trapped by the plastic bag. I found this on the Internet and it seems to have worked.


+1. We had to leave ours out several days to really get rid of them, but it did work.

--about 1/2 inch of vinegar (I think I used balsamic b/c I had no cider vinegar) in the bottom of the bottle
--just a single drop of dish soap (to break the surface tension of the vinegar)
--baggie as PP describes it
[Post New]09/15/2014 15:35
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For indoor plants, it likely means you're overwatering. So get an indoor irrigation system. Go on amazon and look up HydroSpike. Then, to get rid of them in the meantime, Gnat Stix. They go right into the plant soil and traps them. They don't come back if you water correctly.
[Post New]09/15/2014 15:39
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We put apple cider vinegar in a cup with a baggie rubber banded around it. Cut a hole in one of the corners and push the hole in towards the vinegar. The gnats are are attracted to the vinegar but then they get trapped by the plastic bag. I found this on the Internet and it seems to have worked.


+1. We had to leave ours out several days to really get rid of them, but it did work.

--about 1/2 inch of vinegar (I think I used balsamic b/c I had no cider vinegar) in the bottom of the bottle
--just a single drop of dish soap (to break the surface tension of the vinegar)
--baggie as PP describes it


This is what I do as well. those little EF'ers fly right into that bowl of soapy vinegar and its bye bye...
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