Gnats

[Deleted]

We've had a bunch of gnats in the house for the past couple of weeks.

I don't know where they came from or why they stick around.

I wonder if all the rain may have something to do with the phenomenon.

Anybody else experiencing this delightful change of pace?

[joedog]

Got a fruit basket recently??

[Justin Thyme]

Yeah, I've had some in my house. One flew up my nose earlier today. I hate it when that happens.

[BlackFox]

The wife and I just spent dinner swatting gnats. I'm setting off a bug bomb when I leave for work in the morning.

[Deleted]

OK, but what are you going to do about the gnats?

[RuneDeer]

My li'l guests went away when I stopped throwing Pop Ice wrappers in the office wastebasket. And made use of the flyswatter for a few more days.

[JC]

Tons of those little buggers in my house too.
They I can deal with....its that damned silver dollar sized spider I killed this morning by the stove that has me upset :shutters:

[ohwell]

If you had left the spider alone, he or she would have trapped, killed and eaten your gnats. Try looking for a rotten potatoe.

[ackack]

Had to deal with them a while back. You have to find the spot where they're breeding or it'll take a while to get rid of them.

With our place, they appeared after a bag of bananas was left on the kitchen counter for a few days... we tried to get rid of them for a week using the sticky tape traps and bug spray, but no luck. The little buggers just kept multiplying.

Finally figured out that we had a leaky pipe under a bathroom sink and they had chosen the little puddle forming in a plastic storage bin under the pipe as a breeding spot. Once that was cleaned up and fixed, they died out within 24 hours.

[Deleted]

I *did* find a nasty potato, now gone. Thanks.

I also tried an Internet trick I found.

Cereal bowl of water.
Some vinegar to attract the varmints.
A couple drops of dish-washing detergent to break the water's surface tension.

Drowned gnats. It's working rather well. Not quickly, but the black dots on the bottom of the bowl are accumulating.

[BlackFox]

Another internet trick. Cut the top couple of inches off the top of a 2 liter plastic bottle. Put half a cup of sugar, half a cup of apple cider vinegar, and fill to the half way point with water, mix well. Replace the part of the bottle you cut off upside down. Traps those little bastards.

[ohwell]

What if they aren't bastards? What if they are bitches?

[Justin Thyme]

If they are bitches just call animal control. They know how to handle dogs.

[ohwell]

There is a Biblical difference between bastard and bitch. I might be female, but I am not a bastard nor a bitch. And you, Sir?

[JC]

I'm often called a son of a bitch....but thats another story

[ohwell]

That has nothing to do with you, but concern your mother.

[Justin Thyme]

Sept 29, 2009 19:07:36 GMT -5 ohwell said:

There is a Biblical difference between bastard and bitch. I might be female, but I am not a bastard nor a bitch. And you, Sir?

Show me where either term is used in the Bible. A bastard is a child who was born out of wedlock, male or female. A bitch is a female dog. The slang use for either of these terms developed long after the Bible was established.

"Bastard" has only been used as a vulgar term of abuse for a man since 1830¹ while the term "bitch" has been used as a derogatory word for a woman since around th 1400s. However, it's use to mean complain stems for the first half of the last century (1930)².

[Deleted]

I didn't realize just how many gnats were flying around, but the photo's collection of the little buggers over several days tells the story.

I noticed gnats flying around a doctor's office this morning, and to my knowledge, they have no funky potatoes (or is that potahtoes?) or fruit to draw them, so I still assume the rains had more to do with gnat infestations than any other factor.



I'm just glad the water/vinegar/soap trick works so well.





Side-note: those little critters really, REALLY like Asti Spumante.

[ohwell]

OMG, are those gnats or fleas?? I have noticed fleas in my baby's doctor's office. He gave me some Frontline.

[Tsavodiner]

Those are Tsetse flies. We aren't supposed to tell, but those came back in when the Delta Queen moored here, and they can't find a way to get a handle on them.

Watch for a rash, or unexplained cravings for grape juice.

[ohwell]

OMG Are they after my tsestses???

[goomba]

Oct 1, 2009 16:39:51 GMT -5 ohwell said:

OMG Are they after my tsestses???

yes

[ohwell]

Help, protect me ! ! !

[gridbug]

Tse here people, I've never known Yoda to have fleas nor does he tend to make rash decisions. These baseless accusations are gnat funny at all.

[Deleted]

Crabs and lobsters, of course, are a completely different story.

On the day I die, I'm going to put a live lobster in the bathtub.



Call it "Cause and effect."

[ohwell]

This is a true story. As a young child, we lived in rural New York State. Unlike what most people think, if my Dad didn't hunt and fish, we wouldn't have eaten. But, just picture this. You get up early on Sunday morning, try to beat everyone else to the bathroom to take a bath and get ready for church. I stopped, looked in the tub, and SCREAMED. Swimming lazily in our claw foot tub, filled with six inches of water, were three eels. Yeah, I refused to take a bath for the nest couple of days. So you put your live lobster in the tub.