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Title: Oh, gnats!
Post by: linderlizzie on August 06, 2018, 03:42:50 pm

Just a note to remind you that you can get rid of gnats if they're starting to come around now. Put some cider vinegar in a small dish and cover tightly with plastic wrap.

Poke some holes in the wrap and the gnats climb in to get to the vinegar but they can't crawl back out. Works like a charm. They do drown, of course, so . . .

. . . please don't report me to the insect violence police! :silly:

:fish:

Title: Re: Oh, gnats!
Post by: ancmetro on August 06, 2018, 05:08:36 pm

   Really!   ;)

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Post by: Nancy5 on August 06, 2018, 05:27:54 pm

Great idea, and I promise not to report you!  😃

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Post by: bigfoot951 on August 06, 2018, 06:10:27 pm

I use apple cider vinegar for gnats but I don't use the plastic wrap.  I just put out a cup of it and they go to it and end up floating in it.

Title: Re: Oh, gnats!
Post by: hitch0403 on August 06, 2018, 07:16:14 pm

I think down the road i just may try this.I work in a booth and we have shrubbery around it and if you open the door when its warm out just for a sec they fly in booth.Quite annoying.So if i take the advice and put the cup or dish on the counter away from me maybe i will see results.

Then again i may have a change of heart.

“GO TO the ant, you lazy one,” wrote King Solomon, “see its ways and become wise.” What can a lazy person​—or any person for that matter—​learn from an ant? Solomon continued: “Although it has no commander, officer or ruler, it prepares its food even in the summer; it has gathered its food supplies even in the harvest.”​—Proverbs 6:6-8.


I wonder if they go to heaven when they die?

Title: Re: Oh, gnats!
Post by: pkrahmer on August 06, 2018, 07:27:22 pm

 Very interesting tip. I will have to try it. Thanks for sharing  :rainbow: :rose: :peace: :wave:

Title: Re: Oh, gnats!
Post by: jenniferhoder on August 07, 2018, 03:26:25 am

I Have heard that same thing, but i heard to put dish soap in it b/c they can't get out ..... and i didn't know you were supposed to cover it... if you dont' cover it, they can't get out anyhow. I hate gnats!

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Post by: braggin on August 07, 2018, 03:47:13 am

I love tips like this. Thanks very much!

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Post by: vg7405 on August 07, 2018, 04:24:40 am

To the OP: nice recommendation. I recently moved to the South, and the number of gnats around here are absolutely astounding (and frustrating). I am going to use your recommendation immediately!

Title: Re: Oh, gnats!
Post by: nannycoe1 on August 07, 2018, 05:17:38 am

I hate gnats

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Post by: gwilson31 on August 07, 2018, 05:49:17 am

Quote from: jenniferhoder on August 07, 2018, 03:26:25 am

I Have heard that same thing, but i heard to put dish soap in it b/c they can't get out ..... and i didn't know you were supposed to cover it... if you dont' cover it, they can't get out anyhow. I hate gnats!

A bowl of water with dish soap and a light over it works on fleas too.

Title: Re: Oh, gnats!
Post by: bretay on August 07, 2018, 05:50:17 am

havent had a problem lately...we had a problem a few months ago..irritating little things

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Post by: ccandpam on August 07, 2018, 06:08:58 am

Thanks for the tip. I'll give that a try. The gnats are bad at my house because we live in the Country. :)

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Post by: catchow on August 07, 2018, 07:37:06 am

Ive tried this before and it doesnt work, for me anyways :(

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Post by: BEENICE on August 07, 2018, 08:08:13 am

This sounds simple! So economical. The smell of vinegar? Will get rid of gnats? O.K. Will pass this along. No additional way expensive measures are needed, like an exterminator. This is something that person should be able to afford.

Unless the gnats are in a position or location that a dish of vinegar might not align with very well.