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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.
Your description sounds like you have an ongoing healthy infestation of fungus gnats. They are a common pest of plants grown ...
Set traps with vinegar and dish soap to catch gnats and make sure to keep your drains clean, dispose of overripe fruit, and ...
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 — ...
Q. We have had lovely houseplants that have really grown and been beautiful. However, when it comes time to transplant them to bigger pots, the dirt that we have tried for repotting always has little ...
It’s a problem University of Kentucky entomologist and assistant professor Jonathan Larson knows well: fungus gnat infestations that seem to get out of control and take over homes this time of year.
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 ...
You expect pests outdoors, but it’s exasperating when gnats flit around your face or end up in your beverage when you’re indoors. “’Gnat’ is a general term for a type of small fly,” says Matt Bertone.
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 ...