Indoor flowers are the joy of every housewife. Thanks to them, comfort and harmony reign in the rooms. And the air is significantly enriched with oxygen. Even regular care of your “green friends” does not guarantee that pests will not infest them. Almost every amateur gardener in his life has encountered such a harmful insect as the flower midge - a small black insect with wings that always catches the eye and irritates with its intrusiveness. If you have midges in your indoor flowers, you will learn how to get rid of them and what products are best to use in this article.
What kind of midges live in indoor flowers?
Various insects can live in pots with plants. If you understand what pest you are facing, the fight will be more effective.
Black midges
These are sciarids, which are also called fungus gnats. They are very small in size, literally a few millimeters. The body is elongated, gray-black, the wings are transparent.
Adult insects are not at all dangerous. Plants are threatened by eggs that sciarids lay in moist soil.
The hatched larvae are approximately 3–5 mm long. They have a black head and a white body. They feed on organic matter rotting in the ground, but can also gnaw thin young roots of plants.
White midges
They are also called whiteflies or aleurods. Adults are approximately 2–3 mm long. Outwardly, they resemble a moth. They have two pairs of milky white wings covered with a flour-like coating.
Gary Chang
Insects lay light-colored and clearly visible eggs on the underside of leaves. With special pleasure - on the juicy ones. These are found, for example, in fuchsias, primroses, pelargoniums, poinsettias, hibiscus, and abutilons.
Hatched larvae, like adult whiteflies, suck juices from stems and leaves. Damaged areas are deformed, curled, and sticky dew appears on them. If measures are not taken, the plant will die.
Drosophila
These are fruit flies 2–3 mm long. Outwardly, they resemble ordinary flies, only very miniature.
Katja Schulz
Drosophila are not dangerous to the plant. They are more likely to annoy people, as they quickly multiply and scatter around the apartment.
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