My indoor plants are inundated with small flying bugs. Help!

They could be fungus gnats.Place bowls of apple cider vinegar covered with saran wrap,poke a few holes in it.You may have to re-pot them again with a new bag of soil.

I hate those pesky little things too! I got the following info from SF Gate Homeguide.

1

Fill about the bottom one-half of a deep bowl with apple cider vinegar. Adult gnats will be attracted to the apple cider vinegar's odor.

2

Add five drops of liquid dish soap to the apple cider vinegar. The soap breaks the surface tension of the vinegar and provides enough resistance so that gnats cannot escape the mixture.

3

Place the bowl near your houseplants. The fungus gnats will drown when they investigate the mixture. Empty the bowl and replenish it with a new batch of the mixture periodically.

Killing the Eggs

1

Remove all decaying plant material from the soil of your houseplants. You may need to remove some of the top layer of soil as well to get all of the decaying plant material.

2

Let the plants' soil dry to a depth of about 2 inches.

3

Mix 1 tablespoon of liquid dish soap and 1 teaspoon of white vinegar with the water you will use to water your houseplants.

4

Give your plants' soil the water containing liquid dish soap and white vinegar every other time you water the plants. Let the soil dry to a depth of 2 inches before you water the soil again. Eventually, the mixture will kill fungus gnat eggs and larvae.

Hope that helps

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You need to remove all of the old potting soil and replace it with new. The bugs may have laid eggs in the old soil and they feed off the dead decaying leave, so remove them asap.

Thank you Kim, I just printed these steps and will try this method.