Luci Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 For the past couple of weeks, I have been making mostly candles with food scents. I have done next to NO cooking of food and have no food on any counters. Any snacks, etc. are in the refrigerator. The trash is taken out daily but very seldom has any food scraps. Every time I go into the kitchen there are little flying gnats or something like that everywhere. I have cleaned the counters with bleach, sprayed the trash can with Raid, and taken other above average precautions. Could they be attracted to the fragrance oils? I know bugs are stupid, but I would think they would figure it out. Has anyone else ever heard of this? It is really "bugging" me!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crowded House Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Do you have houseplants? They can live and breed in those, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonrose64 Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Also, Would you by any chance have any fruit out? 1 piece of stinking fruit on a counter brings in millions of those pesty boogers.As soon as I bring fruit in my house I swear they have radar and find it.I am fighting em now. grrrrrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sab Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Are they fruit flies? We get them this time of year if we leave any fruit out. As soon as the fruit starts to break down they appear in droves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon in KY Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 I have trouble every time I open my windows in the Spring and Summer. These itsy bitsy bugs, smaller than a gnat land in my tarts and even the unscented wax, what a pain. I have to leave the windows closed and turn on every fan I own. Gets Hot..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topofmurrayhill Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Are you a banana? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luci Posted July 8, 2006 Author Share Posted July 8, 2006 There is NOTHING edible in there. I've been using the kitchen for strictly candles and soap this week. Been eating out. Have a couple of snacks in the fridge. I've cleaned all countertops with Clorox Kleanup and also kept the trash can sprayed with bug spray. No windows open. I live in an old house and none of them will open anyway. Don't want to. Hot as hell here. I started thinking it is the candles because I have left a couple of pots not washed out. I also noticed them in a room where I was test burning a cherry scented soy candle. I just went in the kitchen for some water and it looked like a swarm of gnats. I'm not smelling but candle scents. Otherwise I'd think maybe another one of those damn gators crawled up in the yard with something. Maybe I am a banana? Or am I having a blonde week? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGCAT Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 gnats can thrive and live is small amounts of water, like in drains and open pipes and any water that has sat still for awhile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MommaD Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 OMG, I have those friggin things too, and cannot get rid of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tess Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 They could be living in your drain. Especially if you have a garbage disposal or dishwasher. Pour bleach down your drains! HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelaVA Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 I get them everytime I bring home bananas from the grocery store. Can't stand those little bugs, but my cat goes crazy trying to chase them. :rolleyes2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luci Posted July 8, 2006 Author Share Posted July 8, 2006 Well, folks, I put bleach down the drains last night. This a.m. when I went in to make coffee they were there! Hovering around a pour pot that had chocolate scent in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollyberry Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 I have the same problem too..... drives me nuts.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon in KY Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 I'm no where my sink so I must have something else. Air is on now so don't have to dig those suckers out of my tarts but there is always next year. "The only good bug is a dead bug" just not in my wax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snow Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Just another reason why I hate summer! I am a winter person when all the pesky, icky creatures are asleep. I don't think there is anything you can do about gnats, they are attracted to sugar and sweet stuff. I am a bartender and every summer we have to cover the whiskey bottles because they go after the sugar in the whiskey, or they are just looking to party! I HATE BUGS !!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accents Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 I'm thinking you just have some realistic-smelling FOs. That's kind of a good thing. You just need a little bitty gnat swatter now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewOrleansLady Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Put a saucer out with honey in it..they'll be attracted and get stuck in it. After Katrina we had these like crazy cause of all the rotten food in 10's of 1,000's of refrigerators that were unopened for over 2 weeks with no electricity. Mitch had come to town after a week and cleaned out our fridge and filled it with charcoal and baking soda so I didn't have the horrid smell but the bugs got in there and it took forever to get rid of them.I used an ante bellum trick of the wasp catcher. It's a bell jar with a hole in the center and a plug in top. You fell the donut around the hole with honey or sugar water and the wasp or bees or any kind of bug crawls in from the bottom and then can't figure how to get out since the top is plugged up. They usually just drown in the honey/sugar water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luci Posted July 9, 2006 Author Share Posted July 9, 2006 I'm thinking about drastic measures now. They kept diving in my wine glass last night! However, the suckers did drown, but I had to keep pouring out so much that I barely got a buzz myself! Time for action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aspencreek Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 GNATS!!!!! The reason I LOVE, Colorado..........It is just to dry for them here...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang67 Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 Hello, in Cherry country, Western Michigan, I have heard for the major bug problems there, they put out saucers of vinegar and cover them with Saran wrap. You then poke a hole in the top so they can enter where they drown. It's worth a try! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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