--- title: "Hi everyone! I’m a new plant person but it’s been a long time goal of…" description: "Hi everyone! I’m a new plant person but it’s been a long time goal of mine and I’m beating my low expectations for keeping things alive 😄 I am struggling with…" url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lKxUkhzRR_aIJD7o1QvtwQ/eWmXF7aGBsRcN02Bx8JtP4?language=ko" community: "Pests, diseases and problems" author: "Emma" published: "2025-07-11T16:32:27.206223Z" language: "en" image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v2/cloudinary/global_data/communities/pestsDiseasesAndProblems.jpg" --- [커뮤니티](https://getplanta.com/community.md?language=ko) / [Pests, diseases and problems](https://getplanta.com/community/lKxUkhzRR_aIJD7o1QvtwQ.md?language=ko) # Hi everyone! I’m a new plant person but it’s been a long time goal of… _Emma님이 2025-07-11에 게시함_ Hi everyone! I’m a new plant person but it’s been a long time goal of mine and I’m beating my low expectations for keeping things alive 😄 I am struggling with a gnat problem. It appears I have fruit flies or gnats that love living in my plants and keep coming back after my efforts to get rid of them. Any suggestions?? ## 10개의 댓글 ### Chetan님이 2025-07-11에 댓글을 남겼어요. I had the same problem. I bought these on Amazon and works really amazing!! Brand: Stingmon 54 Pack Fruit Fly Trap for Indoor, Gnat Traps for House Indoor, Fungus Gnat Killer Sticky Traps for plants, Mosquitoes, Flying Insects Note: I tried Neem Oil spray, changed my potting mix, vinegar in a bowl- nothing worked!! ![2개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/hUkWwhdWpMdCnByygiuP_5Ll_ggMjYwSvisngl0Lt4s/XRl1FRZWR4au5bNFsYzxyg.webp?size=large) ![2개 중 2번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/hUkWwhdWpMdCnByygiuP_5Ll_ggMjYwSvisngl0Lt4s/CAdIPMEWR1uyhOle0z-kxA.webp?size=large) #### Emma님이 2025-07-11에 답변했습니다. Thanks for this! I’ve tried soaps and vinegar and separating the plants…giving them a good shower. It only worked temporarily. I’m going to try these!! ### Zay님이 2025-07-11에 댓글을 남겼어요. Essential oils like basil, peppermint, lavender, and lemongrass can act as natural repellents for fruit flies and gnats. ### Zay님이 2025-07-11에 댓글을 남겼어요. Try that but that might be the last resort 😭😂 ### LeafyGreenhouse님이 2025-07-11에 댓글을 남겼어요. Diatomaceous earth! Also sticky traps work nice too ### Josie's Jungle님이 2025-07-11에 댓글을 남겼어요. If you can, grab beneficial nemotodes and use as directed through your watering cycle in all your plants coupled with the yellow sticky traps and bottom watering where possible. Diatomaceous earth is good, but once you water your plant you'll need to reapply another layer and that starts to get expensive. Or, if you want to go whole hog, you can get chemical insecticides to treat your plants, but they're quite rough in the system. It took me about 2-3 months of cycling the nemotodes with the sticky traps and bottom watering to get the gnat level to a minimum. Good luck! ### Millieee님이 2025-07-11에 댓글을 남겼어요. Only way I got rid of them was letting all my plants dry out (unintentionally), obviously do not recommend, I had many casualties! 😂 ### Nunyabzwx님이 2025-07-11에 댓글을 남겼어요. Put some old fruit in a cup and seal it with plastic wrap with a rubber band. Poke holes with a toothpick in the plastic wrap and when it gets pretty full grab another piece of plastic wrap to put on top of the cup so they can't escape and make a mad dash to the dumpster or outside garbage can. Do this around your plants a few times and bottle water your plants so they don't lay eggs on the top inch of your soil. It worked so good for me. A grocer in the fruit section told me about this years ago. Thats how they get rid of gnats/fruit flies. ### Nunyabzwx님이 2025-07-11에 댓글을 남겼어요. I mean bottom water not "bottle" water lol #### Emma님이 2025-07-12에 답변했습니다. Thanks for the tip! --- _Planta 커뮤니티 (https://getplanta.com). 누구나 읽을 수 있습니다. 게시물을 올리고, 댓글을 달고, 좋아요를 누르려면 Planta 앱을 다운로드하세요: https://getplanta.com/download_