new gnats

[ritaxis]

We have teensy little fly things at night I have never seen before, inside the house.

Anybody else notice new insects?

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[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

We've never had mosquitos in my part of England before - I mean - we're a thousand feet up on the edge of the Pennines and the only English mozzies I've ever encountered before have been in the lowlying marshy Fens (East Anglia), but the last few years has brought biting insects up to us. Mozzies, I think, but maybe others as well.

My vegetable patch is infested and every time I go up there to weed or harvest I come back with a new crop of horrible itchy bites. (I react badly to mozzy-bites). The last couple of times I've put on a heavy winter coat and zipped it all the way up to the neck... so don't ask me how I managed to get a red, itchy bite on my belly. The blasted bugs just ain't playing fair.

Anyone got any ideas about how to de-infest a small veg patch without rendering the veg poisonous?

Now I've written this I'm going to post it to my journal as well - see if anyone out there can help.

The fruit fly infestation

[dragonet2.livejournal.com]

had smaller flies than usual, or so I thought (I didn't get a hand-lens and examine them). So they may have been a new insect.

It was due to what I think was once a potato in a bag in the cupboard. (Onions smell really horrible when they go to rot, moreso than potatos.)

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

No, just the regular cricket legs in the foyer.