annoying black flies

[rainbowbrite]

i've got loads of tiny flies in my house, i'm getting all paranoid that my house is not clean and i'm scrubbing like a crazy woman, anyone know where they could have come from and why they are in my house?

please help

[SlugLobber]

Sounds like fruit flies. Check your compost caddy, if you have one, racks of veg (you may have a rotter in there!) , fruit bowl and even your bin if you've thrown something fruity away from a plate or something. Oh and also herb pots on windowsills. Mine like to breed (get me, I've a bloody fly farmer!) in the basil pot and also the spider-plant pot.

[amandaandherveg]

Rainbow, I have the same thing at the moment - tiny flee type creatures. They appear to lurking on top of the compost in the chilli and pepper plants I took in from the greenhouse last week. Anyone know how best to get rid of our little pests?

update: Just Googled - do they sound like Fungus Gnats?

[Bren In Pots]

I've got them as well they seem to be attracted to my monitor just now.

[rustylady]

Definitely sounds like fruit flies - harmless but really annoying (specially when they land in your drink). Make sure no fruit or veg standing in your kitchen. Try hanging lavender which is supposed to keep all sorts of flies out.

[tamsin]

Yellow sticky papers proped up next to the flower pots worked for me

[rainbowbrite]

i'm glad i'm not the only one with the problem, i was starting to think i was a mucky cow!!! i've got quite a few house plants, i'm wondering if they are coming from there - eeck i might have to banish them out of the house!!

[selfraising]

me too! Definitely fruit flies and very very annoying. I opened the wormery the other day and a whole swarm flew out! Must have been ideal breeding conditions for them this year as I'm sure they weren't this bad last year

[Florence Fennel]

Me too - they hover near the chillies on the windowsill.

[janeyo]

I hoover them up as they gather on the windows

[Jeanied]

Mine are all over the cherry toms I'm still picking and ripening indoors-(when will that darn dehydrator arrive?) - they go after the ones that have split. Definitely after either compost or fruit of some sort.

[Seamus]

thats funny,they are around my chilli plants as well and i am hoovering them up every evening, was thinking this evening, what if some one sees me hoovering the window every day,enter men in white coats, he he he!!!!

[Jeanied]

Yay! Dehydrator arrived - neighbour noticed I was in and brought it round as I missed the postie!!! Now I'm going to be dehydrating and hoovering as well as Seamus!

[Jax]

I have them too!! I seem to be attracting all of the bloody wildlife at the moment teehee

[Glutton4...]

I still use the good old-fashioned sticky 'Fly Papers' they're fab!


Yes we've got them too - as Rustylady said, they do like to drown in your drink!