I have listed many techniques that will help any one of any or no budget to kill and exterminate fungus gnats indoor and outdoor, I think it is complete guide of all methods used world wide to getting rid of these annoying creatures, so if you find any way not listed here you can type that in your valuable comment or just PM me and I will list them here for you
Now Lets know what the fungus gnats is?
fungus gnats is called Larvae and it is a Predatory insect and may be called Sciarid Fly also, it is found in
- The soil around the foliage can infects the house plants, see hydrogen peroxide for gnats.
- Watered well in which a trail of slime appears on the topsoil once these small midges gather
- A larva is tiny but conspicuous. They have clear white or yellow bodies and black heads
They can be even worse than spider mites because they do their damage well hidden amongest the roots
Each Fungus Gnat female lays 200 eggs in warm conditions. The eggs hatch out into maggots which immediately start eating the plant’s roots. These maggots, although they are small, are eating machines. They munch their way through the root system quicker than the plant can grow new roots
Exposes the plant to infection to root diseases, then when the plant’s root system is wrecked, your crop will be vanished.
Maggots will become adults in two weeks and lay their own batch of 200 eggs per female. That’s 20,000 maggots eating roots in just 4 weeks or two generations.
Fungus gnats and their maggots are numerous wherever it is warm enough and wherever there is moisture and food
What fungus gnats cause to plants?
Severe nutrient deficiencies
Root diseases by fungus gnat’s maggots, such as Pythium
How to know that fungus gnats are found in your household plants?
- An abundance of small 3-5mm long flies on the surface of the root ball or medium in which the plants are growing, while you see this significance is then your plants are eliminated.
- appearance of small black flies walking around the surface of the soil then tend to fly when disturbed, suspected to be a fungus gnats
- identify existence of larvae by visual look for the larvae amongst the roots of plants