Give these pesky bugs the boot. If you have a gnat problem, you may have noticed them swarming around your house plants, ...

Placing the plant in a dish filled with water allows its roots to soak up the moisture and keep your plant hydrated, without wetting the soil up top, where gnat larvae tend to live. However, it’s ...

“These gnats come in on fruit that we purchase. The larvae is on the fruit, and when you have a piece of fruit that goes bad or rots, those hatch and make a colony.” The second most common ...

STICKY TRAPS You can purchase the sticky traps available at retail nurseries and garden centers. Yellow sticky traps can be cut into smaller squares and stuck ...

The larvae of fungus gnats live in the soil where they feed on fungi and organic matter, but they also eat plant roots. The larvae are thin maggots, with a shiny black head and long, whitish-to ...

Small black flies buzzing around your house plants can be bothersome and unsightly. Although they are generally harmless, fly flies can grow immensely in number in no time. Watering your plants less ...