QuestionHi, I'm a very amateur gardener. Over the last year I have periodically bought plants from IKEA. I have noticed that three out of five plants have fruit flies all over them. I have an aloe plant, two small tropicals, and a mystery plant. At first they were very bad on the aloe plant but that was the first one I bought and its seemed to get better over time. The two tropicals and mystery plant are more recent and I'm seeing the flies everywhere. Is there something I can do to get rid of the flies?
AnswerHi Allison, whatever kind of flies they are, they begin as maggots/larvae, so you can assume they are hatching from the soil; you will need to treat the soil with a systemic, this will enter the plants inner works and when the larvae feed they will die, thus ending the fly problem, I would wait about 3 days after applying the systemic and then repot them with new soil... (a systemic is an insecticide you mix with water and drench the soil with) good luck! Nick
