How to get rid of midges in the kitchen quickly and effectively?

Where do midges come from?

Before you start fighting gnats in your kitchen, you need to understand what causes gnats in the kitchen in general. Main reasons 3:

1. They arrived through an open window from the street or through a ventilation shaft from neighbors, from the basement of an apartment / cellar of a private house.
2. Emerged from eggs laid on purchased fruits / vegetables (fruit gnats).
3. Appeared from eggs laid in soil for indoor plants.

It is important to find out the reason for their appearance, if only because a pair of flower and fruit midges have different habitats and food preferences, which means that they are excreted in different ways.

How to remove midges at home?

So, you found out where they come from, now you can start the operation to remove midges in the apartment.

Traditional methods

Craftsmen have long come up with a lot of ways to get midges out of the kitchen. TOP-3 recipes from fruit flies:

1. Horseradish. The strong smell of this root scares away fruit flies - you can keep a few pieces on the table, in cabinets, in the refrigerator.
2. Smoke. All insects do not like him, which will help you in the fight against them. Put a few twigs of juniper, incense, spruce cones in an iron bowl, set fire, open the window and close the doors to the kitchen. Unwanted guests will fly out the window.
3. Geranium. Black and red gnats will not start in an apartment with this smell - they are simply afraid of it.

They get rid of flower aphids differently:

1. Black pepper. Just sprinkle it on the soil and water the flowers as usual. Charcoal, garlic, citrus peel have the same effect.
2. Matches. Insert them with their heads down - after a while the sulfur will dissolve and kill midges without harming the plant.
3. Citramon. Tablet for 6 liters of water. After a few waterings, you will forget about your problem.
4. Potassium permanganate. Watering with a mild solution helps kill the eggs and larvae that live in the soil.
5. Laundry soap. One is not dangerous for flowers, but it is considered one of the main helpers from pests. Water, spray with soapy water. Or simply grate the block and spread it over the potting soil.

Store funds

If you do not trust folk wisdom or do not want to bother, buy special tools in the store that will help you catch and destroy reptiles. These can be: insect aerosols; adhesive tapes.

Insecticides are sprayed away from children and animals, so empty the kitchen before handling. Then follow the instructions:

1. Close the windows.
2. Spray the product all over the area.
3. Exit the room, close the door.
4. Open windows and doors after an hour, thoroughly ventilate the room.

This method kills any midges, so if there were a lot of them, the kitchen will need to be thoroughly washed. Poisoning gnats with chemicals is an effective option, but it only works for adults. After a while, new ones will hatch and the procedure will have to be repeated.

The Velcro tape is hung where children and animals cannot reach, and adults should not touch it with their hands or head.

Advice! If the kitchen is large or the gnats have proliferated on an incredible scale, hang some stickies.

Instead of a tape, you can make a homemade device:

1. Cut a small piece of cardboard.
2. Make a comfortable suspension from any thread, rope.
3. Spread honey on the surface (to attract insects).
4. Hang anywhere you like.

Moshkara is lightweight and sticks to honey no worse than to the sticky layer on purchased gadgets.

Store-bought remedies for flower gnats can be in the form of:

• liquid solutions for irrigation and spraying;
• dry granules acting on the surface;
• sticks that stick into the ground.

The most active are "Mukhoed", "Aktara", "Thunder-2", "Bazudin".

Traps

The most effective trap for midges in the kitchen works like a fishing "muzzle" - that is, midges fly into it and can no longer get out. The main conditions for efficiency:

• bait in the form of sweet fruit, honey, fragrant moisture;
• a small hole that is not easy to get into.

You can make a trap for fruit midges yourself using the available tools:

1. Take a vessel with high walls (jar, glass, bottle).
2. Place or pour on the bottom of a favorite midge treat - a fruit slice, jam, honey, apple cider vinegar or wine vinegar.
3. Twist the paper bag with a narrow hole, tightly secure it in the container.
4. After a few hours of work, when the midges have already accumulated in the jar, fill them with soap and water (directly through a paper funnel).
5. Wait 15-20 minutes for the insects to die and flush it down the toilet. Repeat the procedure if necessary.

Advice! The trap will work best if the paper is not white, but yellow or orange.

Traps made of other materials will have approximately the same action:

• cling film with several small holes on top of the can / glass;
• a plastic bottle cut in half with the neck inserted inside like a funnel.

How to get rid of it quickly?

Ethyl alcohol of 70% or more is considered an effective and almost instant way to get rid of midges in any kitchen. Pour it into a sprayer and treat the room, trying to get on the fruit flies themselves.

Adults, their larvae and even eggs die instantly - after such a reception, you will only have to wash the kitchen.

The main advantage of alcohol is comparative safety for humans and animals, such treatment is much less harmful than chemical aerosols, while effective when urgent action is needed.

Prevention of the appearance

Getting rid of gnats is definitely more difficult than preventing them from breeding in your kitchen. To prevent little flies from torturing you in the future, follow our recommendations:

• Empty the trash can regularly, especially if it contains a variety of fruit or vegetable waste.
• Wash your trash can every time you discard the bag. Especially if the bag is torn and leaked - do not leave the culture medium open for fruit gnats. Wash, then put a new one. The cabinet under the sink also needs regular preventive cleaning.
• Check and close bottles of aromatic liquids: vinegar, wine, juice, compote, beer.
• Cover leftover food with a lid and put it in the refrigerator or cabinet, do not leave open plates on the table. Keep closed not only fruits, but also cereals, dairy products.

Advice! Instead of cling film, you can use reusable silicone soft lids or eco-friendly wax wipes - they keep food fresh and reliably protect against attacks of midges.

• Remove dishes from the table and wash them immediately after eating. Get rid of the blockage in the sink if you have such a problem - insects can live, feed and reproduce in plastic pipes.

Important! To make sure that midges live in the drain pipes, glue a film coated with honey on the inside to the outlet. If after 1-2 hours they saw midges on the trap, then the matter is in the sewage system. To remove midges in this part of the apartment, simply boil soapy water and pour it into the pipe.

• Dry kitchen sponges, rags well, do not leave them stale.
• Clean up or throw away immediately if you find rotten, spoiled food - rotting garbage is a real paradise for pests.Ditto for liquid spills.

Keep your dining table, countertop, and sink clean every day, so you know the best ways to get rid of small gnats in your kitchen once or twice. Good luck!