Safer Brand 5026 Houseplant Sticky Stake Insect Traps for Indoor Plants - Controls Fungus Gnats, Whiteflies, Midges, Thrips, Fruit Flies, and Black Flies - 1 Pack, 7 Traps

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We live in Oklahoma and for some reason FUNGUS GNATS love it here. When we moved to Oklahoma from California I mistook them for smaller fruit flies, but upon further investigation through google pics I found out EXACTLY what the little annoying boogers were. If you have potted plants in your home you have to deal with these darn gnats! The key is to NOT over water your plants because they are attracted to water & watered soil. Once they have laid their eggs in the soil their larvae will eat at the roots of your plants and kill your plants sucking the life out of them. I had lost several plants before I caught onto what they were doing.....once again I found out via google! There is a method of killing the eggs & larvae using a mixture of 1 part peroxide to 3 parts water if you're having trouble with them killing your plants (Google for the info) but this only kills the eggs and larvae not the adults, for the adults I use the sticky traps. The peroxide & water mixture won't hurt your plants because after the peroxide is done fizzing it turns to harmless water. I like hearing the fizzing knowing it is killing those little monsters! Even if you don't have plants in your home they love any spots where there's water around such as bathrooms and kitchens. Lord knows how many of these stupid bugs we've swallowed in our sleep because they are also attracted to the carbon dioxide we exhale. Yum! Anyways, I didnt want to use pesticides in my home because the air quality inside homes is already poor enough as it is and I am sensitive to chemicals . I found these were rated pretty good with Amazon customers for being nontoxic traps. They do not have any attractant on them, but the fact that they are yellow attracts the gnats to them naturally. The gnats like to crawl and hop on the surface of the soil so I fold the tabs in half and put it down on soil like a tent and have also hung them over stems of my plants. I have also used the little spikes they come with. It works for me either way. When you see my pic you know why I rated them 5 stars. To all those in the fight against these evil menaces...I salute you!!!

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These work very well! I’ve used a few other methods to help get rid of these flies, and nothing has worked until these! My only issue was I didn’t have enough to catch all the flies! Haha. So I’m ordering more. Highly recommended!

These are working great! I like to rescue dead/dying plants from my local store. I'll bring them into my office and take care of them until they are rehabilitated then relocate them to other parts of our office or friends/family. Well, I brought in a miniature rose bush in a pot a few weeks ago and a couple of weeks later noticed I had gnats in the office. My first control attempt was to stop watering for about a month. That didn't solve the problem - the gnats had migrated over to some larger plants with bigger pots that retain moisture longer than the smaller ones do. My second control attempt was to hang a sticky fly ribbon from the ceiling over the weekend. When I returned that Monday there was easily 30 gnats stuck to the ribbon. That's when I knew the gnat issue was bigger than it looked like - I had only seen a few gnats but apparently, it was a full blown infestation. Since it's a bit unsightly to leave fly strips hanging from the ceiling ANYWHERE, especially an office, I opted to give these a try. They are more discreet and you can leave them staked in the back of your potted plants pretty much full time without anyone going "ew" when they see it. It's sort of like a little sticky flower! The first weekend after having these guys staked in all of my plants yielded massive results. They caught EASILY 100+ gnats. I had NO idea there was that many! I'd only ever seen maybe 2 at a time. I'm guessing it only takes a few to lay hundreds of eggs in the soil, so I am extremely glad I got these in when I did or I might have had a cloud of gnats flying around the office. Since some of the sheets filled up, I am re-ordering a few of these kits now. When the reproductive cycle breaks and I stop catching gnats on them, I intended to keep every other plant staked as a maintenance/prevention measure for future issues. Update: This completely resolved my gnat issue after a week or two. I still keep the plants staked with the strips and every so often I’ll see something stuck to it... having gone through that gnat explosion nightmare I’m extremely appreciative that these are preventing a repeat infestation.