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Black flys!
Maxine Winter
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hiya
i have black flys on the top of the soil, is there anything we could use ( pet friendly ) that we could use to stop them.
Thanks guys ????
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pansyface
when planting they are just a nuiscance, from my research it looks like gnats! i cannot get near the soil for these pests.
Sticky fly paper and stop watering your pots from above, let the top soil dry out and only water into a dish under the pot
Not sure if I have this quite right, but are we taking 'soil' or compost here?
I suspect it's compost, in which case they will be fungus gnats.
Fungus gnats” (scientific name Sciaridae).....these live in potted plant compost. They can be very hard to get rid of, depending on how many infested pots you've got.
Nearly everyone who has potted plants has these flies in their homes but they sometimes become a nuisance.
Re-pot the plant completely with sterilised potting compost and spay the compost with BTi (available as 'Gnatrol' in the garden centre)
If they are in garden soil, disregard the above.
....if they are outside in garden soil, they could be ants or a host of other species.
we made a border and put compost on the top and they seem to just love it!
we are not watering from above we have a computerised watering system in place.
I meant automated watering system pansyface