I have no idea what to do!! I have made the vinegar traps and they only have a few gnats in them, the rest are still on walls, drains, toilets, everywhere I look the whole house is full of gnats!! I tried spraying them with hairspray and then vacuuming them but I cant keep ahead of the problem!! I dont know what to do!!! HELP!!!

First of all, gnats don’t necessarily mean you have a filty home. You have to kill the source. Rotten fruit, vegetable, leaky drain. Find and destroy (literally) the source and gnats will be gone.

I’m on the hunt for vinegar and jars right now. Excellent article.

For those of you not in the know, mixing ammonia and bleach creates a chemical reaction the inhalant of which is chlorine gas. This is more than just a simple lung irritant, it is potentially lethal. Charlotte was lucky that their “gf” only had to leave a Christian concert early.

Every year I use vinegar and 2 tablespoons of sugar in a jar with small holes in the lid, in two days my jar is black with dead gnats.

Well currently I am using the white vinegar mixed with baking soda and dawn dish washer liquid bottle it is working good right when i mixed the baking soda ( slowly) the gnats were attracted very very quickly

I have a word of warning for you all. DO NOT MIX AMMONIA AND BLEACH! It can get into your lungs and kill you! It says right on a bleach bottle not to mix them. I had a gf once that was cleaning her toilets, mixed the two together and several hours later she was so sick and her lungs hurt so bad we had to leave a Christian Concert we went to. There’s a chemical reaction when you mix the two and really, it can make you very sick or mess your lungs up. Stick with Ammonia down the drain with nothing else….if you have to use that.
I was watching an infomercial and some guy wrote a book 1001 ways to get rid of bugs in a natural way….can’t remember the name of the book, but he had some great tips on how to get rid of flies, spiders, etc. in your house for good, animals in your garden, and much more. Unfortunately, I was broke and couldn’t order the book, but would have if I had the money (only 19.99…) for two sets…what a deal. He said some animals hate organic peppermint oil…there was a lot of info on natural ways to get rid of unwanted pests…look it up if you want to have the info at your fingertips….:) Good luck. (I have a million gnats right now in my kitchen, and they did find their way into my dish soap when I didn’t have the top on…Guess I will be trying the vinegar and dish soap in a jar myself!

OMG!! Every time we go to the grocery store, we always buy fruits for the little ones.. which we put in a fruit bowl on the dining table..By day 1, there are a swarm of gnats everywhere!!…so much that my two year old is now saying” flys get on my nerves”!!..To hear that they lay 200-300 eggs a year discusses me!… Ive tried Raid, and they just wont die… I have even tried different chemicals… but obviously did not work! They should make a spray that kills them little demons… Anyone have any ideas? Plllease let me know! Thank you <3

DANGER! I read a post above about using bleach and ammonia. DANGER!

Help, my daughter is in Iraq so before she left she and rented out her apartment. When the renter left,( not telling anyone) food was left in the fridge for 3 months(yeeek)I cleaned out everything, but now I have millions…yes…millions of gnats. I go over to her apartment to clean the empty fridge every day, but I still have millions. How do I get rid of them? Do I have to throw out the fridge? I hate to do that because it is only 3 yrs. old. Help Please

Okay, here goes! These gnats are driving me insane. I have set the vingar in bottles with small holes and the little cups of dawn and vingar. I hope and pray one of these ideas work.

Alabama gnat killer! THANK YOU!!!!!!

I have had a gnat problem for almost 3 weeks!! >:( the little F@%ks are irrating as hell and i cant get rid of them completely. the only thing i have found that realy works is i bought an iced coffee drank it so only a little was left and put it in my kitchen then a day later it was full of dead gnats and it keeps filling i recomend doing that for a temporary solution otherwise get gnat strips they are like fly strips for gnats.

I have no tips! sorry! I have been two days straight. debugging the heck out of my kitchen. I think wow I got em. come back in an hour, hundreds more. There in my walls! yep! Everywhere the wall meets the flooring. There coming out from behind the walls! Under my stove. refrigerator. dishwasher. I’m doing everything everyone has said on here! As of Do It Yourself!
Now I’m even using Raid for Fleas. I don’t even have a cat or dog! Our back yard has em. It’s a rental. The owner never does anything around here!I had. Yes had house plants. I used Schultz insect spray. I guess it works directly on the plants. The problem is horrible! I haven’t eatten anything in the kitchen for two days. I have no clue to why all of a sudden there soo bad!
Here I sit telling you, knowing the problem is still growing in my kitchen.
This is just down right wrong!
I hate bugs of any kind!
My house is clean!
OMG!!!!!
So yeah I believe there are no tips! You just have too be on top of the problem until they’re all gone!

This one is going to sound so odd, but if you have live plants near windows, and you have soil gnats, put window decorative clings up (cheap ones work best).

The gnats fly to the windows, and get stuck on the clings. We noticed some black things on them and looked closer — gnats, all right. Not sure if it’s okay to put the clings in the actual dirt, but they don’t fly to the clings when placed on the rim of the plant. Just the ones in the window.

Once they’re a little full, toss the clings and try again.

I had a real gnat problem, I had to leave town for two week and when I came back the gnats were nesting in the potato basket in my kitchen. They had also taken over other damp areas in my house. I was going crazy. I tried the vinegar and dawn as recommended. I made my own twists to the method and then watched them die. Here is what I did. I used a cup of vinegar, 2 tablespoons blue dawn, 6 oz solo cups cut to a 1 and half inches tall and a coaster from a bar to protect from spills. I got a quart jar and mixed the solution up, shake it up for a little foam, set the coasters around the house in the problem areas, placed the cup on the coaster and filled the cup to the rim with the solution. I sat back and watched, the gnats are attracted to it and it was only a few minutes before I had the first one, it drank and drown. I watched others take a sip and could fly only to die soon. I was getting off watching the annoying SOB’s die. Try this method You will see results immediatly.

HELP! THEIR FLYING ALL AROUND & THEY WON’T STOP!!!
STUPID BLIND (_!_) THINGS! I TRIED FLY TRAPS BUT THE LAST TRAP CAUGHT ONLY ONE & THAT ONE WAS CAUSE I GOT MAD & HIT THE GNAT AT IT, CAUSING IT TO STICK TO IT! GRRRRR!
I DON’T HAVE HOUSE PLANTS, SO THEY CAN’T BE THOSE KIND…RIGHT?
REALLY GROSS IS THE FACT THAT THEY ARE IN MY FREEZER! EW! AND BECAUSE OF THAT, THE LAST OUTBURST OF GNATS THAT WE HAD, SOMEONE CLEANED OUT THE DRAIN THINGIE UNDER THE FRIDGE. THIS WORKED, BUT GUESS WHAT…THEIIRRR BAACCKKKKK!
I SHALL TRY THE VINEGAR THING THIS TIME. PLEASE PRAY FOR ME. DON’T PRAY FOR THE GNATS, JUST FOR ME & ME BABIES, OK? TY

WE ONCE HAD A HORRIBLE ATTACK OF…MOTHS! FOR LIKE 1 YEAR, WE COULDN’T RID OURSELVES OF THOSE ANNOYING DISGUSTING THINGS. (THEY CAME IN VIA CEREAL, RICE, PASTA BOXES)
I WOUND UP LYING IN MY BED, TRIPLE HOSE ATTACHMENT ON MY VACUUM IN TACT FASTENED WITH DUCT TAPE (FOR STRENGTH UNDERSTAND) & TOE ON THE ON/OFF SWITCH. SOON AS ONE OF THOSE BAD BOYS HAD THE BALLS TO COME~A~FLYING NEAR ME…~POINT, FLIP, SUCK, GONE!~ UGH!
HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

I heard that spraying the soil with a mixture of ammonia and water will kill the live ones, has anyone tried this??

We had similar problems with gnats although not as many swarms. I was following the tips and trying the vinegar traps with no success. Then, we tried the bleach and amonia down the drains to clean the gnats out of the traps, but that didn’t get rid of them. We had checked all the house plants, but never saw them there. One day, we looked at the plants and saw several on a pot. We immediately went to a nursery looking for some insect plant spray and came home with granular systemic houseplant insect control product, Bonide, that we put in the plant soil. Almost immediately, they went away. It took a little more than a week before we did not see any! And, we didn’t have to repot the plants. Unbelieveable! I hope this helps someone else because we are gnat free.

OMG!!! I NEED HELP NOW THESE DAMN GNATS ARE KILLING ME I AM SO SICK OF THEM I RATHER HAVE ANTS I CANT LEAVE NOTHING OUT THEY GET ALL IN THE REFRIGERATOR AND IN MY FOOD I NEED IMMEDIATE HELP TOMMROW IM GOOIN OUT TO GET THE AMMONIA AND VINEGAR AND I WILL B BACK IN ABOUT A WK OR SO TO LET U GUYS KNOW HOW MY EXPERIMENT WENT… PLZ PRAY FOR ME…

Here’s a crazy find. I had a problem with gnats and I tried the vinegar trick but for some reason didn’t have a lot of luck. But by chance one day my wife was cooking dinner and opened a small can of whole kernel del-monte corn and only had to use a small portion of the corn. She had left the remaining contents in the open can on the counter and got busy and forgot about it. Maybe an hour later she realized the can was still out and when she went to throw it out she noticed that a number of gnats had been attracted to the corn juice and had died in the can. Well, nothing else had wotked so I figured we’d just leave it out and see how many we could get. We got alot of them and would you believe we don’t have anymore gnats flying around. It looks like we got them all with the corn juice. It worked for us, you may want to try it too.