fungus gnats

Paul Burkhardt (burkhard@aries.scs.uiuc.edu)
Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:59:52 -0500 (CDT)

Hello to everyone. I seem to have an infestation of fungus gnats due to
all the extra water-loving plants I have accrued in this hobby. I have
read that the larvae usually eat decaying organic matter in the soil, but
they will also chew on young juicy roots. I am assuming that these are
opportunistic little buggers and therefore have no preference over dead
and decaying sphagnum peat to nice delicious robust cp roots. The
treatment that was proposed in one literature was watering the soil with
malathion. Are there any suggestions out there?

Thanks.

Paul