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Sazechman
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Bugs!
#27060205 - 11/27/20 01:33 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Just checked on my subtrait. Shrooms flushing nicely. Then I noticed little flying bugs! Almost looks like fruit flies but smaller. And they run and hop as well as fly. Way to small and fast for a picture. Any ideas?
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spongegar
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fungus gnats, sadly theres pretty much nothing you can do about them.
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sh4d0ws
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Sticky traps (they're attracted to the colour yellow) will help to take care of some of the adults that escape the fruiting chamber.
Ditching the tubs after a couple flushes max will help keep them in check.
You can try a growing hiatus but myself and some others have recurring fungus gnat problems that just return even after a hiatus. For me, I think they find their way into the house when doors are opened or windows or whatever...cause they always come back
Peppermint essential oil, a couple drops into your spray bottle can help. I think they are attracted to the smell of mycelium/mushrooms and the peppermint oil deters them, but it may be something else entirely that does it. But don't go overkill like me. I spread a bad pseudomonas infection spraying way too much trying to get rid of gnats
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starbones
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Smaller than a fruit fly doesn't sound like your typical fungus gnat but then again there's 800 different species of the motherfuckers in the family Mycetophilidae and something like 1700 species in Sciaridae.
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spongegar said: fungus gnats, sadly theres pretty much nothing you can do about them.
Imagine being outsmarted by a bug.
OP there are plenty of things you can do to eliminate them.
Got houseplants? Want to keep them? Three options to treat the houseplants that might harbour them in between your grows. A layer of dematiaceous earth on top of the soil, 3% H2O2 soak or bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Sold as things like Mosquito Dunks, Skeeter Bitz, Aqua-Bac) It's lethal to their larvae, not to anything else. If you use dematiaceous earth you need to reapply it anytime it gets wet.
Check your drains, if they're living in there give them some foaming drain cleaner to drink. Secure your garbage with a decent bin.
In your substrate you have few options.
1) Live with them being there. 2) Pitch your subs after a single flush so larvae don't have time to become adults. 3) Prepare a solution of BTI (The stuff from the plants) and mist the subs.' 4) Stop cultivating for two weeks as all adults will be dead by then and without anywhere moist to lay they will die off.
Adults are sexually mature four hours after they leave the substrate and will then begin to lay eggs again. They live for eight days and can lay up to 200 eggs. Sticky strips and shit are fine for a few but all it takes is one to avoid them and you're right back with the Brady Bunch.
The way I handled my BAD infestation was two-pronged. I added BTI bacteria to my mist water and I fogged the air with pyrethrin based insecticide. I recommend Raid Max Flying Insect. Don't use it around cats or fish.


I went from a massive infestation to sweet fuck all.
Deal with it sooner rather than later and you won't be in the same boat. They're a pest, we have tools to deal with this stuff. You can outsmart the bug, I believe in you.
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