Fruit flies

Are they perhaps living in your houseplant compost? Take a look to see if there are any jumping about on the compost.

Why get rid of them? Live with them.

The ones in the house plant compost are usually the little black 'fungus flies'; rather smaller than the fatter, brown, big eyed, fruit fly proper. As noted in the earlier thread on the subject the fruit flies proper can often be trapped with fruity/yeasty stuff in jam jars (they are especially attracted to new baked bread). The soil based fungus flies (you will see their shiny transparent grubs in your houseplant soil) are more difficult to deal with. The best I managed was to cut circles of plastic bag to fit around the plants, and paint them with sunflower oil. The flies seem to be almost magnetically attracted to the sunflower oil, and it dries to quite a serious glue.

Once the *fruit* flies are under control, the organic veg delivery brings more each week, but I have learned to have Henry at the ready and soon mop them up quite satisfyingly.

Bring a few spiders into the house? ;-)