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[INDOOR-GARDENING:100] Re: Fruit Flies??

Most of the time, the little black annoying insects we see around our plants
are fungus gnats. (I think it's impossible to keep many plants without
having the gnats.)The larvae consume decaying matter and live in the potting
media. If there are massive numbers of larvae, they can eat at the plant
roots, but generally don't do any harm other than annoy the indoor gardener.

One way to help control them is to put up yellow sticky cards. These cards
are yellow and coated with a sticky substance. When an insect lands (they're
attracted to the color yellow), they stick to the card and die there. That
means the gnats can't reproduce. Yellow sticky cards should be available
from your local garden center.

--Justin Hancock
Gardening How-To magazine

-----Original Message-----
From: Piabinha@aol.com [P*@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 9:19 AM
To: indoor-gardening@prairienet.org
Subject: [INDOOR-GARDENING:99] Re: Fruit Flies??


hi donna, it's not the humidity that attracts them but rotting vegetable
matter, hence the name fruit flies, like fruit peels, etc.  once you
eliminate
their source of food, they should go away.  and i don't think they harm your
plants or people in anyway, except that they can be a nuisance.

tsuh yang
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