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[INDOOR-GARDENING:103] Re: Fruit Flies??

Wow, thanks to all of you.  I appreciate all the info.

Donna

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Karen Fletcher [SMTP:kef@prairienet.org]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 02, 1999 10:36 AM
> To:	indoor-gardening@prairienet.org
> Subject:	[INDOOR-GARDENING:102] Re: Fruit Flies??
> 
> 
> >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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