--- title: "Hey guys! Can you all help me identify this bug? I’ve noticed it on…" description: "Hey guys! Can you all help me identify this bug? I’ve noticed it on my new plants as well that have moist soil. They are everywhere and they are so annoying !…" url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lKxUkhzRR_aIJD7o1QvtwQ/1b6B045tRuyp290Rkuu-lg?language=ko" community: "Pests, diseases and problems" author: "adilene🪴" published: "2024-05-29T03:35:21.688287Z" language: "en" image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/SN2bVoGnhfuRUQzeYbiHhjyiFEfioJ1M1NUnc43Ffnk/I5cWpSV-TS6vPfIsWZSFDQ.webp?size=large" --- [커뮤니티](https://getplanta.com/community.md?language=ko) / [Pests, diseases and problems](https://getplanta.com/community/lKxUkhzRR_aIJD7o1QvtwQ.md?language=ko) # Hey guys! Can you all help me identify this bug? I’ve noticed it on… _adilene🪴님이 2024-05-29에 게시함_ Hey guys! Can you all help me identify this bug? I’ve noticed it on my new plants as well that have moist soil. They are everywhere and they are so annoying ! 😔 Any help will do thank you friends! ![3개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/SN2bVoGnhfuRUQzeYbiHhjyiFEfioJ1M1NUnc43Ffnk/I5cWpSV-TS6vPfIsWZSFDQ.webp?size=large) ![3개 중 2번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/SN2bVoGnhfuRUQzeYbiHhjyiFEfioJ1M1NUnc43Ffnk/UWIOnlXZTh2CE7rmd0ztPg.webp?size=large) ![3개 중 3번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/SN2bVoGnhfuRUQzeYbiHhjyiFEfioJ1M1NUnc43Ffnk/YQW3niaJSG2QNVH1OVcGVg.webp?size=large) ## 13개의 댓글 ### Vexed님이 2024-05-29에 댓글을 남겼어요. It’s hard to see from the picture looks like a fungus gnat. If you see it flying around ur plant then that is exactly what it is. If it doesn’t fly and has a longer body with a pointy ish but it may be thrips. #### adilene🪴님이 2024-05-29에 답변했습니다. It like crawls really fast and it is so easy to squish too. It kind of flys but not really and yes it is longer and flatter. #### Vexed님이 2024-05-29에 답변했습니다. Then it may be thrips as they are longer and flat ish ### 9s님이 2024-05-29에 댓글을 남겼어요. Fungus gnat. Too big for thrips ### eatyacarbs님이 2024-05-29에 댓글을 남겼어요. 100% fungus gnat. Get some mosquito bits. Safe for pets/plants/kiddos, just mix into water and it treats the eggs/larvae #### adilene🪴님이 2024-05-29에 답변했습니다. Thank you tons :)! ### send\_nodes님이 2024-05-29에 댓글을 남겼어요. Yep it’s fungus gnats. They’re not harmful to your plants, but they’re super annoying. For gnats, there isn’t a treatment that will target them at all stages of their life cycle (eggs, larvae, adults) so you have to use multiple things to get rid of them. Like another comment suggested, mosquito bits are great. Add 2 tbsp per gallon of water that you water your plants with. Let the mosquito bits soak in the water for at least 30 minutes. Just don’t let the bits actually go into the plant soil or else it can cause mold. Then you can re-use the same mosquito bits for about a month. Mosquito bits will target the larvae, but then you have to target the adult gnats. To do this, you can use sticky traps. Add them to the soil of all or most of your plants. Gnat eggs can stay in the soil for a very long time, so make sure to keep using the mosquito bits even after the gnats seem to be gone. People say to let the soil dry out as much as possible to get rid of gnats, which definitely helps, but those eggs can survive for such a long time, so letting the soil dry will not get rid of them completely. #### adilene🪴님이 2024-05-29에 답변했습니다. Thank you so much!!!!! #### eatyacarbs님이 2024-05-29에 답변했습니다. The adult gnats don’t live very long so their life cycle will take care of that. As long as you’re treating the eggs/larvae, the gnats themselves will diminish over time #### send\_nodes님이 2024-05-29에 답변했습니다. Good to know! ### Meowmy님이 2024-05-29에 댓글을 남겼어요. Everthing everyone have said is right but I'd like to add, fungus gnats are actually harmful for your plants because their larvae eats roots of the plants. Good luck on getting rid of them, lots of good advices here! ### Krista님이 2024-05-29에 댓글을 남겼어요. The fungus gnats also make great food for smaller carnivorous plants, mainly drosera and pinguicula and small pitcher plants. That makes the gnats a good excuse to get a couple of those plants 😉. Of course, they only target the adults and can’t get them all. I also use a Katchy indoor insect trap as well. That fills up pretty quick with gnats. I am about to add the pot sticky traps too to try and catch them as they emerge. Finally, for the larvae, I am using Mosquito Bits, but I am also trying to switch to bottom watering and I want to try Nematodes. #### adilene🪴님이 2024-05-29에 답변했습니다. I have been wanting a carnivorous plant..😏🫣 haha but I think I am going to start bottom watering too and get some mosquito bits! \- thank you :) --- _Planta 커뮤니티 (https://getplanta.com). 누구나 읽을 수 있습니다. 게시물을 올리고, 댓글을 달고, 좋아요를 누르려면 Planta 앱을 다운로드하세요: https://getplanta.com/download_