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Scales on plants

Scale insects have more than 1000 types in their family. A big part these looking dirty insects family is agricultural pest. Therefore as a plant lovers they are one of the our big enemies. The one of biggest feature of these insects is playing its big role about spreading plant diseases. This means if you don't provide against these insects in time, there is a high risk to lost your plants. Even if your plants have been placed at indoor. Read the full article

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How to get rid of fungus gnat?

How to get rid of fungus gnat actually there are many ways to rid of them. One of most known is intervening the plant with a mixture that is including some soap and water. This method works in generally. But it's important to applying and checking day by day. If it doesn't work, you can try the other solutions that we will have mention below. The ways to get rid of fungus gnat The first thing you need to know that is the fungus gnats love moist soil. This is an important information for us that we can use to against them. Namely; adding some sand or gravel on the soil that is ground of the plant will work. Because there's no way to live for them on the sand or gravel. They are familiar with moist soil and their living sources comes from soil. Therefore making some barrier between of they and soil, is one of the most easiest ways to get rid of fungus gnats. Since it will be impossible to breed they won't want to live there. Thanks to this method you can also get a chance to show your plant more beautiful by using some decorative gravels. What are the other ways to get rid of fungus gnats? The another solution is renewing the soil. But doing this a little bit troublesome. If you are sure to do this, it will enough to renewing the upper part of the soil. Don't try to renewing all of the soil. Lastly; you need to be attention about watering frequency. Notice that the gnats love moist soil. So providing stay moist of the soil for a long time won't be true. Read the full article

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Fungus Gnats - What is a fungus gnat?

  Outside of its scientific definition, with more easier definition; the little black gnats that are benefiting from your house plants are named as "fungus gnats". The fungus gnats are noticed while watering plants in generally. It's easy to see those by looking closer to the soil of the plants. In generally; the main reason of seeing a fungus gnat in a house plant is has been placed that plant in outside. Even if it has been placed outside for a short time only, the risk possibility is high. Why fungus gnats are harmful for plants? Actually, the harmful effects of them are related to strength level of the plant that have been haunted by them. If we are mentioning about a plant that has no strength roots, the being affected  possibility is high. But the stronger plants are always stronger. But even if your plants so strong enough to resist, you need to do something to rescue your plants from these gnats. Otherwise the result is gonna be bad and in every watering process you will have get the problem like flying of these gnats to on your face. How to get rid of fungus gnats? Luckily it is not impossible or difficult to get rid of these gnats. One of the most easiest ways to do it is mixing some soap to some water and spraying the mixture to on soil everyday regularly. Out of this solve method there are also many other ways to get rid of fungus gnats. But if you don’t get a noticeable result, we recommend to you trying other ways. Read the full article