While their damage can be minor, nothing is ruder than an uninvited guest laying eggs in your favourite plant and eating its roots! If left untreated, these bugs can eventually lead to wilting, poor growth, and discoloured leaves. They lay their eggs in the top layer of damp soil and eat the hair roots of your plants. vinegar on top soil, epsom salt, lemon juice, gypsum, citric acid, vitamin c, dead tree parts, etc. Lower your soil pH, have a well growing plant and no fungus gnats. Fungus gnats have very little interest in the leaves of your plants, instead, they focus on the moist soil below the plant canopy. Most plants we are growing like acidic soil. They have long legs (for a super tiny fly), transparent wings, and affinity for nutrient-rich, moist soils. If you see a small winged insect that looks like a fruit fly hovering around the soil of your houseplant, chances are it’s a fungus gnat. The good news is that these plant flies are much less harmful than many other pests, and better yet, they’re pretty easy to get rid of. But we especially don’t want to see pests in our houseplants, because that brings the problem inside our homes-gross! Fungus gnats are little winged critters that resemble tiny mosquitoes (don’t worry, they don’t sting!) and are similar in size to fruit flies. As people who adore plants, we never want to see them suffer at the hand of pests.
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