help me with flying bugS...+++ for all help

ok so for the last 3 days i have saw these little bitty black flying insects in my small room. first night, i sprayed neem oil all around. 2 nights later i saw them again so i got some vegtable friendly insectacide and mixed it up and sprayed down everything good. today i go down and see like 2 more flying around. damnit man i hate this. its 10 new babes and i dont wanna lose them. what can i do, i have bleached solutioned everything before they went in.?????????????????

nobody? come on riu where mygirl at?

sounds like knats or fruit flies

sounds like aphids. try and find a grow shop in the area that carries safergro products. they are all organic and have worked wonders for me.

so your sugg. is go buy anothey kind of product?

If they are fungus gnats, which are flying black tiny bugs, then I highly recommend finding some 'beneficial nematodes'
I've used the sprays and shit, which work temporarily, but once I used the nematodes it was done for good.
They are fairly cheap, easy to use, you just put them in your water. And no chemicals, they are biological control.

does your soil remain wet? If so I would dry it out.
Also try some of these glue strips

hey RUDIGER , is there any certain brand that you used with such good results?

those l@@k dangerous man, geeeezzz,lol i showed my wife the namatode close up and she said no way im putting those in the car or the house. i told her they cant be seen but she didnt care. how anyways does those things catch flying insects???????

spray the whole room with neem and put up some of those sticky traps. just had that situation and it cleared them out.

if you read my first few post, it states that i did do that, followed by a chemical spray 2 days later, but thanks. and i do have sticky traps

They arent dangerous man, they're safer than chemicals. If your worried about these bugs somehow taking over your house, you shouldnt be. You already have microscopic bugs everywhere in your house anyway. If you do some research on them, other than looking at google images, you'll see how amazing these things are and how widely used they are. Every single person that uses or has used them will speak nothing but praise. Versus some chemical treatment, or some 'trick' that somebody uses that might work for you as well.
Show her a picture of fungus gnat larvae and mention that those are 100 times bigger than nematodes. And if you have adult gnats, then you have those larvae in your soil.

word i am going to try them tomorrow. how many did you get of what kind and where did you get them at?

Sounds like gnats. I will assume that you are growing in your place of residence...
Here is what I recommend:
1) REPOT! Get some new sterile soil if you can, if not you could always cook it yourself in your oven.
2) Make a solution of 1 part liquid dish-detergent and 3 parts clean/filtered water. Spray that on your plants weekly.
3) Clean your grow room out, sweep, mop, vaccum..whatever you have to do. Also, pour some clorox down your drains to kill any eggs. Make sure you take garbage out every night and don't leave dirty dishes in your sink.
4) Consider purchasing an organic fungicide/insecticide. I use GardenDust, it's pretty cheap and you can get it at home depot.
EXTRA CREDIT: Go get some friends for your gnats to play with, like ladybugs or spiders!

If you want to keep your wife happy, and try something organic that's beneficial to your soil/plants, and kills about everything I've come across including mites (which are real hard to get rid of) and gnats, and also works on fleas and ticks and can be applied to cats and dogs, and there's a food grade variety for humans to consume to get rid of parasites/worms, try diatemaceous earth. I found it at the first nursery I went to. Ask,.. it may not be plainly labeled but it's usually in the pest control section. It's also pretty cheap,.. about $10 to $11 per 5 pound bag, which will probably last most of your grow life. It doesn't go bad either.

Wear a dust mask when applying or mix into water and spray onto your soil and allow it to dry, can irritate the lungs if you inhale too much (applying every day for weeks?). It kills by two methods,.. one dries out the pest when it coats them, also it has razor sharp edges and cuts up their exoskeleton causing them to loose water quicker. One application will probably do you. But instructions say use multiple of necessary.

It's actually micro-organisms that are based on silicates. It's almost like once-alive powdered glass except much more hygroscopic and much sharper, plus silicates can be broken down to a degree in soil, glass can't. They contain trace elements which are good for your soil. Don't buy the stuff used for filtration,.. it's chemically and heat treated and not good for killing pests.

http://www.dirtworks.net/Diatomaceous-Earth.html

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NEEM OIL
SAND IN POT
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Personally ladybugs did the most for me.

If they are gnats just put about an inch of sand ontop of your soil gnat babies cant dig though thus ending your problem, assuming their gnats. Might work of fungus flies or whatever if they live in the soil.

first off you need to repot em...get some pro mix . or get seedling starter soil and add perlite, vermaculite, sphagnom pete moss, and wormcastings....then water only every 5 days. let the top of the soil dry out completely to 2 inches down...they love damp soil....i had them and just the repoting, by the way i was using yard dirt...i changed to promix. also if you have a fan blowing across the top of the soils then they cant fester...another 2 things that help , i went out and got cobra lillys and venus fly traps......i put an inch of soil on top....sand a fan, new soil. less water = no gnatts...also place a bowl of fruit punch or beer around the growe and all the straglers will commit suicide...good luck...neem oil is just messty and didnt work for me...let us know how it goes.

Just use a glass of sweet ass kool aid and wait... They will drown themselves

ok so im going to go put in a bowl of beer and a glass full of sweet ass red punch kool-aid today. but i am ordering the 1200 pack of lady bugs off ebay also. the nematodes will come after thats stuff IF it doesnt work. sand idea may be good also. lets see and i will report back soon(within a couple days)