2007-06-10 09:25:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Fly strips work well, especially if you hang one under a light.
2007-06-10 09:33:00 · answer #1 · answered by Deidre W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I tried various pesticides to no avail (and I wasn't comfortable using them either, as the problem was in the kitchen). The one solution that did work was a home remedy I found.
Get a jar and put some apple cider vinegar in it (maybe a quarter of the way up the jar) and a drop of dishwashing liquid. Make a paper funnel and place it on top of the opening of the jar - make sure that the hole at the bottom of the funnel is very small. Tape the funnel to the jar, so you effectively have the paper funnel acting as a lid to your jar. Make sure that the funnel isn't touching the vinegar.
The gnats will go into the jar as they are attracted to the smell of the vinegar, but then can't get out as they find it difficult to work their way back up the funnel and through the hole (and the dishwashing liquid makes it hard for them to try and get out too).
If you don't have apple cider vinegar, rice wine vinegar works too - or a combination of both.
We had a bad problem with them a few years ago when we came back from holidays and discovered a potato had gone rotten! We made a few jars of this solution, placing them around the areas they seemed to be worst and within half an hour we had collected over a 100 gnats. We left the jars there for a week, just in case any eggs hatched but we found that the worst of the problem was fixed fairly quickly.
Another variation of the above is to cover the bottom of a bowl with apple cider vinegar. Cover the top with plastic wrap and punch the top with a half dozen holes placed at least 1/2" in from the edge of the bowl. As with the funnel the gnats enter but cannot find their way back out. I personally haven't used this variation but the logic is the same.
Good luck!
2007-06-10 16:55:19 · answer #2 · answered by redmonkeymadness 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pour a 1/2" of cider vinegar in a bowl. Add a couple drops of unscented dishsoap. In a few hours you will have plenty of drowned gnats.
2007-06-10 16:42:03 · answer #3 · answered by sensible_man 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Vinegar.
2007-06-10 16:27:55 · answer #4 · answered by k-ma; <3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
below freezing weather-
or any bug sprays, there are some that are scented and do not smell so awful
2007-06-10 16:29:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
raid
2007-06-10 16:28:08 · answer #6 · answered by OR 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
catnip oil, if you want to keep them away that is...
2007-06-10 16:27:33 · answer #7 · answered by heart o' gold 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋