You think that you keep the apartment almost sterile clean, but here you find small insects that look a bit like miniature flies. These are the so-called fruit midges. In the apartment they find themselves with fruits bought in the market. You are unlikely to notice microscopic larvae that, once in heat, begin to develop rapidly. Adults fly around the house.
Sometimes unexpected guests fly in from neighbors or the sink in the kitchen becomes a hotbed of spread. Ignore aliens is not worth it. It is better to immediately think about how to destroy midges in the apartment.
Before you open the hunting season, you must determine the source of "infection". Make it a rule to store fruits and vegetables in special compartments of the refrigerator. So the products retain freshness longer, and the larvae will not have a chance to survive.
Keep the trash can closed, often free from food debris. Do not be lazy to disinfect it. Or at least wash with hot water, then wipe dry with a rag. This rule applies to the feeders of your furry pets.
If midges in the apartment appear from the sewer, then thoroughly clean the sink with a plunger. So you remove the remnants of food stuck in the corrugation and on the walls of the pipes. After that, it does not interfere with pouring a solution of potassium permanganate into the drain hole.
A weak solution of potassium permanganate is good to shed the earth in pots with indoor plants. By the way, they often become real colonies of annoying little things.
The fight against midges in the apartment includes the conduct of active "combat" operations. For example, you can make effective home traps. Take for this purpose a glass (you can have a plastic one), put a slice of juicy fruit on the bottom, as an enticing tasty treat. Ideal lures are an apple slice or a slice of an overripe banana. Then we tighten the top of the glass with cling film. In the latter, you need to make several small holes. Insects will make their way through them. But they can’t get outside anyway.
The second version of the trap involves the use of thick paper folded in the form of a funnel instead of a film. Such a bag is placed in a jar with bait at the bottom with a narrow end down. And the wide part of the funnel should fit snugly to the neck of the container. The principle of the trap is the same. Through the narrow hole of the paper funnel, midges penetrate the jar. In the apartment, the population of flying annoying people who are dying in a trap is slowly decreasing.
The mechanical destruction methods include the use of special adhesive tapes. True, they do not look too aesthetically pleasing. Therefore, some homeowners are more likely to use a vacuum cleaner. Flying individuals collected in this way should be immediately placed in a tight bag and discarded.
It has been proven that the smell of camphor is harmful to fruit midges. In the apartment you can carry out "fumigation". Buy camphor in a pharmacy, heat a frying pan on a stove and throw the purchased substance on it. Then walk around the rooms with a skillet. Vapors are absolutely harmless to the human body, but small pests will die.