So, dealing with gnats

[Aerozord]

They have infested my house and nothing we do seems to work. Tried being tidier but they bug us even as we are eating. The vinegar (both plain and apple) didn't attract them and thats the most common solution I can find online.

[Flarecobra]

Canned air, and fans.

Don't ask me why, but those killed gnats by the dozen in Iraq.

[Aerozord]

canned air, how?

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

likely the bitterent additive to deter people from huffing or making narcotics from it has an added benefit as a deterrent.

[Flarecobra]

No idea, probably froze them or something. Fan was far more effective to be honest.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Time.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

time kills all. or do you mean thyme?

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

The first one.

[Aerozord]

yea I kind of need a method that kills them faster then they can reproduce

[tacticslion]

When it happened to us, it turned out that they were mostly attracted to our garbage (we didn't have garbage service, and we'd missed the only guy who knew where our local legal dumpster was for a while).

After we finally got rid of it all, vacuumed the whole house (all of it) and wiped down the tile they died out over a couple of days with nothing too fancy.

I think, however, at least in part it's because where we live gnats aren't that big a deal normally. I know in Georgia (when I was a kid) they used to be a serious problem.

I'm sorry I don't have better advice. :/

[mauve]

Would fly paper work?

[Krylo]

Burn the house down and rebuild.

[Aerozord]

Would fly paper work?

kinda, I got some up but while it does catch some its not enough to keep them from multiplying.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Improve the gnat's standard of living through technological and social development to the point where their birth rate naturally begins to drop as mirrored in human societies in the first world.

Be warned, this may result in the gnats producing tiny talk show pundits who will go on to rant about increased immigration from the daddy longlegs.

[Satan's Onion]

Improve the gnat's standard of living through technological and social development to the point where their birth rate naturally begins to drop as mirrored in human societies in the first world.

On top of this, increase the gnats' caloric intake while reducing their need for physical exertion thanks to a complete, all-encompassing technological revolution. Watch them all slowly ruin their health as they waste their days on the intergnat internet!

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Gnats

this might be of help.

[McTahr]

Fire. Fire fire and more fire. Homes can be rebuilt. Gnats cannot.

[Nique]

Burn the house down and rebuild.

'das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten'

[Krylo]

'das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten'

Das kind muss für sein eigenes wohl sterben

Gnats have arteries to clog, right?


Actually, no!

Insects have what is called an open circulatory system, which means no veins or arteries. Their blood just kinda. . . sloshes around in thar.

[Nique]

Das kind muss für sein eigenes wohl sterben

Haha...

Aw :(

[Magus]

It hasn't been too wet this year where I live so haven't had much trouble with gnats. We grow tomatoes so we have a lot of fruit flies inside sometimes but that's simply a matter of cleaning countertops and getting rid of garbage, I've found, since they like to feed on the juice after you've gotten done cutting up some or have thrown some away.

That said those fly strips you hang from the ceiling seem to catch lots of gnats as well as flies and mosquitoes, so...

Really don't gnats need the same kind of environment as mosquitoes? Like puddles of stagnant water or something? Humidity and moisture? Do you have a lot of that kind of environment?

[tacticslion]

It hasn't been too wet this year where I live so haven't had much trouble with gnats. We grow tomatoes so we have a lot of fruit flies inside sometimes but that's simply a matter of cleaning countertops and getting rid of garbage, I've found, since they like to feed on the juice after you've gotten done cutting up some or have thrown some away.

That said those fly strips you hang from the ceiling seem to catch lots of gnats as well as flies and mosquitoes, so...

Really don't gnats need the same kind of environment as mosquitoes? Like puddles of stagnant water or something? Humidity and moisture? Do you have a lot of that kind of environment?

When we had a problem it seemed exclusively rot-related. Specifically, trash. We didn't have any other standing water or anything like that.

[Aerozord]

part of the issue is, I mean even if I scrub the kitchen, I'm not the only one living here and I doubt they'd be as cleanly

[tacticslion]

part of the issue is, I mean even if I scrub the kitchen, I'm not the only one living here and I doubt they'd be as cleanly

Ugh. Had one of those situations in college. I hated it.

I used to scrub the heck out of our shared bathroom. Daily.
*shudders from the memories of t3h h0r0rx*

Do you store your trash somewhere outside, but still near the house? (For us, it was the garage, then in front of the garage, then around the side.)

Though it didn't seem to be that way for us, what about what Magus said: do you have pools of standing liquid nearby? If so, you might want to make a huge "dry" run (hahah - it's a pun, see... well, okay, it's a lousy pun, because it doesn't really make sense given the context and oh, well, I should just shut up now).

Have you vacuumed all of the carpeted areas thoroughly? They might be finding food and/or laying eggs in those regions. (I'm not entirely sure how that works for gnats.)

Do you have tall grass near your property? Often when running into swarms of gnats in the past it's near tall, wet grasses, which actually makes me think Magus may be onto something. Anyway, a keep-it-short yard mow might help (though in displacing the gnats, you might have the problem for a few more days until they die off).

Also, here's this (https://www.google.com/#q=dealing+with+gnats+in+the+home) that might help.