I've noticed an increasing number of nats in my house. I know they tend to come around ripe bananas, but that's not the case here. My house is clean and I just don't know what's up. Just now I was in dd bathroom and there were about 6 of them. They seem to be in just the bathrooms and kitchen. Anyone had this problem before? How did you get rid of them????????

By Mrse on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 - 10:28 pm:

nats? are you talking fruit flys? I have them too, not sure what is up with that either.

By Nancy on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 - 10:34 pm:

I think so. They are the tinys ones that are almost impossible to kill. I'm thinking they are attracted to water. We recently moved to the northwest so I don't know if that's the norm here. All the rain and all. I don't know?? It's just driving me crazy.

By Shellyg on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 - 11:40 pm:

Oh my gosh, I was going to ask this same question today. We have nats also. They seem to hang around my houseplants and sugar bowl. Yuck! How do you get rid of them?

By Annie2 on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 - 11:48 pm:

We have "lovebugs" here this time of year. They are two bugs "doing it" while flying around everywhere. Great for them, ugly for us.

I put away bananas, apples, grapes when gnats start to be a problem. I also hate this time of year because of the SSLLLOOOWWWW flying flies that come into the house. Yuck!

By Imamommyx4 on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 - 12:16 am:

I had my potatoes in a drawer and some apparently went bad before I realized it. I opened the drawer and was swarmed by the gnats. I cleaned the drawer to start with. Then I cleaned off all my counters, dishes, etc and set off bug bombs all through my house. No more gnats for a while. Until I caught the kitchen on fire and we had to take down the wall paper. At a few places in the corners above the cabinets the wall paper was loose and there were gnat nests. And when we took down the cabinets to replace them due to fire damage, guess what we found. There were gaps between cabinets in the corners and behind the cabinets and more gnat nests. That needs professional bug treatment. I was so grossed out.

By Luv2fly on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 - 12:43 am:

Somestimes live flowers can be the source. Had to throw out a bouquet just the other day.

By Cocoabutter on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 - 06:53 am:

I have them too and I haven't had any fruit or flowers sitting out. It had been very moist at night. I can "smell" the mold in the air at night- it just didn't smell like fresh night air usually does- even in the city. We just had our first freeze, so hopefully the bugs are gone.

By Kellyj on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 - 08:02 am:

I used to work in a lab where we used fruitflys. To kill the escaped flies we put out flasks filled with apple cider vinegar. The flies would be attracted to the sweet smell, crawl inside and fall into the vinegar and drown. When we had the same problem in my apartment we tried it and it worked.

What I did was took a small tapered vase and filled it partially full with vinegar. Then I took a piece of paper and made it into a cone that would fit inside of the vase opening (gives them a better surface to crawl inside the vase) and put the paper cone inside of the vase so it looked like a funnel on top. Liquid should not contact the paper. It takes some time but eventually we got them all. You have to put away all of your fruit still.

If they aren't fruit flies, I don't know if it will work. I hate fruitflies!

By Nancy on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 - 10:37 am:

Kelly I'm going to try that suggestion tonight.

I don't know if mine are fruitflys or not but it's worth a try. All I have out is apples and nothing else. Something I did notice is when I ran the water this morning to make coffee there were some that flew out of the garbage disposal???? Gross. I run it often????

If I can't get rid of them it's nice to know I'm not the only one. Thanks for all the responses.

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