Midges in indoor colors - how to get rid of at home

Growing indoor flowers is an entertaining but painstaking task. Plants, like children, need care and attention. Lack of attention is fraught with unattractive consequences: from wilting to the death of a flower. Often, the plants that decorate the apartment and create coziness begin to hurt. If midges appear in indoor flowers, how to get rid of pests is of interest to many flower growers.

Types of midges

The softness and juiciness of foliage is preferable for midges that parasitize plants. Different types of midges can grow in flower pots.

Flowers in the house require care

Black and transparent (white) flies are dangerous for indoor crops.

Fruit flies

In red-headed fruit flies, resembling small flies, another name is fruit, or fruit midges.

Sciarids

Sciarids are black gnats that resemble gnats. They actively fly both near the plant and around the room. Small pests are dangerous for the flower and can destroy the plant in a short time. Moshkara gives rise to discomfort for people living in an apartment:

• years of insects indoors;
• getting into food;
• habitat: furniture, windows, tiles.

Sciarids love plants with dense leaves.

Thin translucent worms up to 5 mm with a black head are parasite larvae. They compact the soil, infect and make it difficult to aerate the roots. Adults are dangerous as carriers of fungal infections and larvae of other parasites when flying from flower to flower. For sciarids, flowers with dense foliage are preferable: ficuses, violets, azaleas.

Whiteflies

White midges, which outwardly resemble aphids, are called whiteflies, or scale insects. From potted plants, they like soft leaves of begonia, fuchsia and royal geranium.

This dangerous insect grows up to 2 mm long, is yellowish in color and has 2 pairs of white wings.

Whitefly on geranium

It is characterized by active reproduction throughout the year. Fight whitefly with chemicals.

Causes of damage to flowers by soil midges

Contaminated soil

One of the reasons why flowers are affected by midges is considered poor-quality soil. Using ordinary garden soil for transplanting plants is fraught with damage by parasites in the future.

In non-disinfected soil, larvae and eggs of pests can develop, which later move indoors and actively reproduce at home. They use a special soil to ensure the safety of flower crops from pests.

New indoor flowers

Preventive measures will help to protect yourself from diseases and pests, which begin with the purchase of a plant in a store. The flower is necessarily quarantined, despite its healthy appearance. A change of scenery leads to the activation and reproduction of harmful insects.

Waterlogging of the soil

Excessive watering provokes moisture stagnation. Waterlogging of the soil is a suitable environment for the development of parasites. Moshkara in flower pots is most common in the summer season. Watering crops is carried out more often.

Florists believe that the plant suffers from a lack of moisture. The flower needs irrigation if the soil in the pot is completely dry.

Watering pelargonium

The accumulation of water in the pan indicates an excess of moisture. The liquid is removed from the stand.

Organic fertilizers

The use of organic matter is responsible for the appearance of flies. With moderate watering, organic impurities are present that attract midges. They gladly settle on home flowers.

Overcrowding of plants

Placing a large number of plants on a windowsill or shelf complicates air circulation and leads to the appearance of earthen midges in flower dishes.

Growing up on an open balcony or window

If there is free access to the plants, the midge flies into the apartment through an open window. High humidity attracts parasites. To protect flowers from pests, mosquito nets are appropriate on the windows.

How to remove soil flies

In confronting the midges, establishing the cause of its appearance is valued. It is easy to spot small pests if you lightly shake the flowerpot or look closely at the soil - they are visible on the surface. When transplanting, light formations are noticeable, which are located closer to the roots.

Folk remedies

Traditional methods are in demand and are safe. It is important for users to be aware of how to get rid of midges in houseplant flowers.

Matches

Matches will help to get rid of flower gnats at home. 5 matches are stuck into the flower container with the heads of sulfur in the soil and lightly moisten the soil. The replacement of matches in flowers is carried out in a day due to the dissolution of sulfur in the ground.

Match treatment

Regular manipulation will remove midges. Sulfur, which is part of saltpeter, will kill adults along with the larvae within a week.

Potassium permanganate

If the flowers are moistened, a pink solution of potassium permanganate is used. Watering crops with a concentrated agent is prohibited, so as not to burn the root system and ruin the flower. Enough healing solution for 3-fold watering in 1 week increments to remove pests that parasitize in the ground.

Soap solution

Just right for fighting flies with soapy water. It is used once every 14 days. Make the composition at the rate of 30 g of laundry soap per 1 liter of water.

Wipe with soapy water

Citrus peel

Pierce the earth with peels of citrons: lemons, tangerines, oranges. Reception refers to effective preventive measures in the fight against harmful insects.

Garlic

Several garlic cloves are cut into pieces and laid out on the soil layer. This recipe is used in another variation - a garlic tincture is prepared: 3 cloves are chopped and poured in 0.5 liters of cold water. Leave the mixture for a day, then filtered. Sick plants are watered with infusion.

Tobacco

The fight against insects is carried out by tobacco. For tincture, dried raw materials (50 g) are required, which are poured into 1 liter of water. After 2 days, the resulting infusion is treated with flower leaves. The minus of the remedy is the detrimental effect only on adults, it does not affect the larvae.

Star

Earthen midges don't like the mint smell. The edges of the flowerpot are smeared with the famous Star, which will help resist harmful insects.

Celandine

Celandine helps to get rid of annoying bugs. To prepare the tincture, which is sprayed with leaves, it is necessary to take 100 g of herbs per 1 liter of boiling water.

Ammonia

The destruction of insects is not complete without ammonia. In addition, the growth of crops is intensifying. Preparation technology: 50 ml of the drug is diluted in 4 liters of liquid.

Ammonium - medicine and plant nutrition

When sulfur comes to the rescue

To prepare the composition, 5 g.colloidal sulfur is diluted with 1000 ml of water. The tool will also help out in the battle with spider mites, scale insects, mealybugs.

Chalk or ash from white midges

Sprinkle the surface of the soil with a layer of ash, loosen the soil. Moshkar will no longer appear - she is very afraid of ash. In addition, the remedy belongs to nutritional supplements that strengthen the plant. Sprinkle the soil in the pot with crumbled cockroach chalk. In addition, draw lines with chalk on the vessel.

Insecticides

Traditional methods are popular, but not always effective. Chemicals will allow a quick solution to the problem, get rid of pests for a long time:

1. Aerosol Dichlorvos: Raid, Raptor, Neo, Bona Forte. Universal drugs will instantly destroy black and white midges.
2. Solutions - Agravertin, Inta-vir, Confidor, Aktara, Fitoverm, Karbofos, Mospilan, Kinmiks. Follow the instructions when watering. After spraying, the plants refrain from watering the soil for 3 days. The course of treatment lasts 2 weeks, the plants are watered once a week with a liquid preparation.
3. Microgranules - Thunder-2, Bazudin, Mukhoed. The agent is mixed with the top layer of soil.

Sticky tape Muchoed for all types of flies

Prevention of the appearance of flower midges

Flower midges will not start if you adhere to simple rules in crop care:

• systematically loosen the soil in a flowerpot to saturate the roots with oxygen;
• remove wilted flowers and leaves from the container in a timely manner;
• do not overmoisten the soil, it is advisable to draw up a schedule for watering the plants;
• water the plants with soft settled water;
• constantly inspect the foliage, remove patients immediately;
• avoid experiments with watering liquid: tea, coffee, meat water - bait for flower gnats;
• constantly ventilate the room where the home green corner is located;
• before planting a flower, the soil is treated with steam or taken out into the cold, scalding with boiling water or treatment with potassium permanganate will not interfere with the dishes;
• the dusting of the earth from above with coarse sand or marble chips will prevent the appearance of larvae;
• when transplanting a culture, it is advisable to pour drainage on the bottom of the flowerpot: broken brick, expanded clay, in order to prevent moisture stagnation and the reproduction of midges;
• when a plant is infected, it is required to spray nearby neighbors.

Preventive measures, the use of folk methods and effective insecticides will tell you how to get midges out of indoor flowers. What method or means to choose to cure a favorite flower is the business of every grower.