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Help!! I am having a problem in my home with miniature flys, not fruit flys. What is a frugal way to get rid of them?

Don’t know where they came from.

I clean regularly, but they keep coming back, and it’s starting to get frustrating.

I’m looking for cheap and effective ways to get rid of them. I’d prefer home remedies or low-cost solutions rather than expensive store-bought traps or sprays, if possible.

Does anyone have any tips or tricks that have worked for them? Are there certain things I should avoid doing that might be making the problem worse?

Also, how can I prevent them from coming back once they’re gone?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can share!

[Marsha]

Do you have plants that have a white fungus on the dirt? If so, you can make a mixture of peroxide and water (google to find ratio) and squirt several times a day.

This might just clear up the problem.

It did for me.

[Susan]

Yep. Apple cider vinegar. Put in small cups with a drop or 2 of dish liquid. One by each sink.

If they go to other rooms, put more in those places also

[Sonja]

Get one of then fruit fly looked like cheese hang in house all gone for a few month

[Debra]

I get those if I don’t treat the outdoor plants before bringing them inside for the winter.

The yellow sticky traps work great and are really cheap

[Sumer]

Those could also be sewer gnats. Pour bleach or another cleaner in your drains AND overflow holes.

[Teresa]

I had these tiny flies coming from my freshly potted plants. Sprinkle a tiny bit of cinnamon on top of the dirt and lightly spread it.

This prevents the flies and spider mites, and works very well!

[Claudette]

Rubbing alcohol in a spray to. Doesn’t harm the plant and kills not just the flu but it’s eggs too

[Laura]

Home Depot sells a product called Green Gobbler that works very well. You put it in the drains.

Just follow directions on the bottle

[Kathryn]

They breed and lay eggs in pot plants and drains that dont get used (second bathroom, floor drains). No point in catching them with vinegar or using flyspray.

Pour very hot water or diluted bleach in to drains x3 a week to start.

When controlled do it once a weeks or less as prevention.

POTS do not water from the top, they breed in the moist soil at the top.

Various soil treatments to start with. Dilute peroxide soak, neem oil, diamaticious earth, google fungus gnat treatment.

Keep up treatement until all gone. A layer of sand and diameticious earth on top as an ongoing preventative. ONLY WATER FROM BELOW and not very often.

[Chanell]

Make a bug trap.
Lots of bait options from fruit juice to beer.

Best container is something like a bottle that has a narrow opening.

[Shirley]

Could be sewer flies. They come up from drains. Pour hot water and a bit of bleach down drains and cover w paper towel or plastic lid from recyled containers.

If you have new plants, could be fungus gnats. Spray plants.

[Glass]

They are called fungus gnats. Harmless but super annoying. Yellow sticky shapes are sold at any garden center or farm store…

I like the ones that are shaped like butterflies or suns.

Just be sure to peel the protective film off the sticky parts….

[Marsha]

Also, I had sewer flies for a couple of years, and couldn’t seem to get rid of them.

Finally, a plumber found that a seal was broken on our basement toilet and that was letting them get in.

He fixed it and that problem went away.

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