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[Anonymous]

Hi – Have any of you noticed an infestation of what appear to be fruit flies in your house? I’ve never seen these flies at this time of year — end of summer into fall, yes; but not in May/June… Where are they coming from? They’re NOT on the fruit bowl or in the kitchen trash, as one would expect — just flying all over the house… Does anyone have an exterminator they can recommend?

Thanks – Mimi

[Bob Medeiros]

Hi Mimi,
If you have house plants, they could be fungus gnats. Check the dirt that the plants are in.
I can recommend Modern Pest Services as an exterminator.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, Bob — I’ll check out the plant pots (& the exterminator)…

Meanwhile, I haven’t seen ANY of them in the past couple of days — I wonder if the colder weather has something to do with it??

-MLS

[Gisele]

Mimi,

Sorry for the delay however I just read your post. I am not sure if you found the source of your gnats, but when Norm and I lived in FL we had a similar problem and I was able to find the source was the master bath due to the large master tub with a glass tile window that they were attracted due to the hot sun where most of them would just die from the heat. The rest would wander around the house. A plumber gave us an easy solution, pour lemon juice down all our drains for several days and it would resolve the issue.

We had some type of bugs I don’t remember what they are called and he said it was common everywhere not only in FL and his solution worked.

I wish you luck, and by now you must have gotten rid of these nasty annoying pests, so anyone else who might come across this problem, try lemon juice.

Thanks, Gisele

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