How To Kill No-See-Ums Indoors and Repel No-See-Ums from Yards and Gardens

If you’ve ever camped along the river or lived near a body of water, you’re probably no stranger to noseeums, barely visible blood sucking gnats that thrive along lakes, ponds and marshlands. Also known as black gnats, biting midges or sand flies, these tiny invaders can inflict surprisingly painful bites that produce swollen bumps or rashes.

Although noseeums tend to be most abundant in coastal regions, they can move inland when populations explode. They will often be found in grassy areas such as parks or golf courses. Worse yet, they are small enough to invade window screens and tenacious enough to multiply inside homes where potted plants provide adequate soil for larva to grow and develop. We have also received accounts of noseeums multiplying near the runoff associated with air conditioning units.

If you find the interior of your home infested, treatment with our organic fogging system is highly recommended to correct the problem without introducing chemicals into personal living spaces. Our indoor fogging solution may also be applied directly to skin and clothing as an organic repellent. Potted plants may be treated with our organic outdoor concentrate, which is designed to control crop pests without chemicals that could harm vegetation.

To banish noseeums from your yard, apply our outdoor concentrate with a hose end sprayer. One gallon makes 32 gallons of solution which can be applied to lawns, mulch beds, vegetable gardens and foundations. Since larva grow and develop within the soil, it’s best to treat at the source to dissolve eggs and choke out larva. It’s particularly important to soak flower beds, as adults often feed upon nectar. A blood meal is only required for females to reproduce.

Noseeums generally hatch in the spring. Adult females waste no time in searching for live hosts. The complete life cycle from egg to adult may take up to two years, depending on species and environmental factors within a given region.

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