Pests Archives - The Happy Houseplanter https://happyhouseplanter.com Houseplant Tutorials & Tips Tue, 16 Mar 2021 23:51:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9 https://i0.wp.com/happyhouseplanter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-happy-plant-icon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Pests Archives - The Happy Houseplanter https://happyhouseplanter.com 32 32 164018088 Fungus Gnats in Potted House Plants – Get rid of them! https://happyhouseplanter.com/fungus-gnats-in-potted-house-plants-get-rid-of-them/ Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:48:05 +0000 http://happyhouseplanter.com/?p=38 What is a fungus gnat you ask? A few weeks ago I was watering one of my plants and noticed that it was swarming with flying bugs. What the heck? Gross. Every time I moved a leaf, what seemed like dozens of bugs would fly up out of the plant. Fruit flies, I thought, and put out a dish of apple cider vinegar covered with plastic wrap poked with holes. Works every time. Except this time, I checked back the next day and there were no fruit flies. After some Googling I realized I wasn’t dealing with fruit flies, these bugs were fungus gnats. Do fungus gnats bite? Will fungus gnats kill my plant? Fungus gnats are bugs that resemble tiny flies. To me they look like fruit flies or miniature mosquitoes. They basically spot some moist soil, get busy with each other, lay their eggs in there and next thing you know – you’re living in a version of the Birds but in miniature. From my research, fungus gnats do NOT bite and they likely will NOT kill your plant. They are more of a nuisance. Their larvae may eat the roots of your plant, stunting it or causing […]

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