{"id":322731,"date":"2021-09-25T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inform.com.de\/?p=322731"},"modified":"2021-05-01T18:00:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T15:00:45","slug":"how-to-get-rid-of-midges-in-an-apartment-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inform.com.de\/en\/how-to-get-rid-of-midges-in-an-apartment-house\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get rid of midges in an apartment \/ house?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small fruit gnats are called fruit flies and appear in places where vegetables and fruits begin to rot.<\/p>\n<p>These insects can drive housewives to a real frenzy. Not only do they appear in the hottest season &#8211; the time of processing vegetables and fruits, but it is also quite difficult to get rid of them as they are extremely prolific and multiply very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Let's try to figure out how to quickly get these small, extremely annoying insects out of an apartment or house.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>First you need to find the source in which the fruit flies reproduce. This could be: a basket or bag of vegetables or fruits, a trash can, or some kind of cleaning and crumb left on the table or dropped on the floor. Destroy the hearth, do not hesitate!<\/li>\n<li>Then go around the apartment. If the midges have multiplied, then they have found a breeding center for themselves. Inspect everything: open cereals, containers for dirty linen, sewers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Wash the linen and dry it thoroughly, add acids or a special pipe cleaner to destroy the midges and their masonry, and sort the cereals and dry them in the oven.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>To get rid of adults, prepare the bait:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>In a glass, put a fruit that is starting to rot, a banana peel, and a cut tomato.<\/li>\n<li>Tighten the glass on top with cling film and make small holes in it.<\/li>\n<li>After the glass is full of insects, discard it along with the midges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Next, do a general cleaning.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>If fruit flies breed in flower pots, then water the flowers with a weak solution of potassium permanganate. Do not overdo it, because the roots of plants with potassium permanganate can be burned.<\/li>\n<li>It is also advised to arrange orange peels or peeled and chopped garlic cloves in flower pots.<\/li>\n<li>You can try to smoke midges with camphor. It is crushed and placed in a frying pan. Heat until steam comes out. Walk around all rooms with a steaming pan. Camphor is harmful to midges, but not harmful to humans.<\/li>\n<li>If you mix 3 tablespoons of vinegar with soapy water, pour this liquid into an open container and place it in a place where midges accumulate, then, seduced by the smell of vinegar, they will fall into the water and drown.<\/li>\n<li>Video &#8220;Trap for midges&#8221;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Horseradish root helps scare off midges. It is enough to clean a few roots and lay them out in open places.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of information can be taken from the video &#8220;How to get rid of midges in the kitchen&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ordinary indoor geranium helps very well. Grow it in pots in the kitchen, not only fruit flies, but also flies and mosquitoes do not like it.<\/li>\n<li>You can use special chemicals: Bazudin; Aktara; Thunder-2; Combat; Raid; Dichlorvos.<\/li>\n<li>The discovered insect colony can be removed with a vacuum cleaner.<\/li>\n<li>Midges also dislike the smell of tomato tops. You can sow tomatoes on the lawn under the window, or even in the room.<\/li>\n<li>Mix 10 cloves in a glass of water. Pour the mixture into a saucepan and simmer for two hours. Open the window. The insects will fly away, they cannot stand the smell of spices.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"PostUnique_PostSource\" style=\"padding-top: 50px\">Post source:  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"\/\/lastici.ru\" class=\"external external_icon\">lastici.ru<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small fruit gnats are called fruit flies and appear in places where vegetables and fruits begin to rot. These insects can drive housewives to a real frenzy. Not only do they appear &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[328,318,151,251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-men","category-for-women","category-lifehacks","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inform.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}