[INDOOR-GARDENING:102] Re: Fruit Flies??

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• Subject: [INDOOR-GARDENING:102] Re: Fruit Flies??
• From: K* F* <k*@prairienet.org>
• Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 09:36:25 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <1D54B7D14CADD111B6BF00805F31892E0467E31E@gsnb05e.et.gs.com>

>I'm not sure if anyone out there has been plagued with this problem:  I have
>dozens of little flies hovering all over my plants.  They are very small
>(maybe 1/8 of an inch long) and look a lot like the flies that gather around
>ripe fruit.  I looked in many plant books, and did not see anything about
>this pest (they are not aphids, not mealybugs, not red spider mites).  

Hi, Donna - chances are these little black guys are fungus gnats.  Fruit
flies can't survive without fruit ;-)   Fungus gnats breed and thrive in
moist soil and litter.  

Check out this factsheet for more info:
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/hyg-fact/2000/2114.html

Cheers!

-- Karen


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