Fungus Gnats in worm compost
The easiest way I just found, is to just let the worms eat all the food, then the fungus gnats have no food and can not breed.
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Thank you Guest. I …
Thank you Guest. I am going to try this today .Its actually for plants but your idea should work fine. I’ll let you know. TIP; if you have a problem with Fruit Flies ,try growing some Basil nearby, this worked incredibly well in a few minutes. Thanks again
Also, I have found …
Also, I have found it best to bury the food at the very bottom, that way it is the hest from the top, which helps keep it moist and other creatures are less likely to reach it. If you are using a bin, I recommend numbering the 4 corners like this:
1 4
3 2
This will keep them moving throughout the bin and also allow them to go to cooler spots on the bin and other reasons that were recommended to me.
If indoors, I found …
If indoors, I found newspaper or a mix with cardboard is good for a top layer and even the entire bin. If you use leaves you collect from outside and peat, that is fine for outdoors, but you can end up with spiders and earwigs and many other creatures which can escape and live outside of the bin (including widow spiders).
Not many things can eat paper, so shredded black and white standard newspaper and shredded cardboard which has only black ink or no ink and not waxy or oiled or for produce.
what material do …
what material do you use for the top2″? what do you do to add add more compost ? just dig a hole ,add the food and replace the top? curious . thanks
The problem with …
The problem with fungus gnats is, it seems their eggs can go dormant and come back when conditions are right. In the past I have tried:
2″ of sand (checking on the compost becomes difficult and I have no bottom air holes),
vinegar (can spill, and ironically, my current ones seem to like regular more than apple cider)
mosquito dunks (idk?)
venus fly traps (fungus gnats are too small)
My favorite is fly paper for slowing their numbers, it gets the adults, it’s cheap and annoys them back!
Glad you enjoyed it …
Glad you enjoyed it. I really hate them with a passion. I still have a problem with fungus gnats. The bin in the video is no longer in use and fungus gnats are not as bad as they used to be. I have made newer videos of my worm composting also.
LOL.. watch it …
LOL.. watch it dance for us… hahahaha.. that part cracked me off
um y r u killin …
um y r u killin them? well if u doo BURN THE BOX BURN IT BURN IT WMAAHAHAHA!
If the problem gets …
If the problem gets worse put a small dish of wine or apple cider vinegar they’ll be attracted to it and drown.
I would put about 2″ of sand on top so they can’t breed…. they thrive in warm, moist places.
lol, i could do an …
lol, i could do an update, i took that stuff out, but i found how to solve the problem, all i need is bigger bins, their too shallow, because fungus gnats live in up the the top 2 inches of the medium, therefore, if the home is only 2 inches deep total, they can live in 100% of it, however, if it is say, 12″ deep, than they cant get to the 10″ at the bottom, so you just dont put any food in the top 2-4 inches (to be safe) and the gnats have no food and can not live.
All of your videos …
All of your videos are cool except for this one WTF get rid of that in the box!
I am doing this to …
I am doing this to learn.
I am constantly …
I am constantly changing it, improving, i have 3 separate composting boxes now. I took out that jar of stuff. planted birdseed and cut it down.
wtf man why u have …
wtf man why u have a box with that ?