Real World Gardener Podcasts

PLANT DOCTOR FUNGUS GNATS These tiny flying things can swarm around your indoor plants but other than annoyance, are they killing your plants? Those tiny little flies that hang around your fruit bowl or indoor plants aren’t always that same thing.  Sometimes they’re confused with fruit flies, or even ordinary house flies, but none of those two are correct. Inevitably they’re up to no good but how to tell them apart? There are fungus gnats and fermentation flies.they are attracted to different things. Fermentation or vinegar flies tend to hang around the fruit bowl, especially if you've got overripe fruit because vinegar flies are attracted to sugars. Fungus gnats are smaller, flitting around erratically: the adults of which are attracted to moisture.the adults are doing much if anything to your plants other than laying lots of eggs, although there is evidence that they can transmit plant diseases. The larvae can be the problem because the feed on the roots of your plants. Fungus gnats -magnifi