Fungus gnats or shore flies, please help

shannon1 5/17/2011, 5:19 am

I have fungus gnats or shore flies in my box. Thought the little Evil or Very Mad

s were just in one pot. I see on the web that one shoud let the top of "soil" dry out between waterings. Does any one know how long it should be dry? If I don't water daily my peppers wilt in the after noon.
Have you had a problem with these guys?

Tbites 6/13/2011, 7:15 am

Good morning,

I see no one responded. Did you find a solution to this problem ? I have either fungus gnats or black aphids... apparently they'll both dig into the soil and fly onto the plant.

I found some info online on killing fungus gnat larvae (not the adults) with a BTi soil drench. (Not BTK) But don't know if that's SFG "allowed".

Cheers

shannon1 6/13/2011, 11:58 pm

Thanks they turned out to be shore flies just a bother when they buzz me but don't harm plants.

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