What bug's you?

Money_saving_Diva_2

That is EXACTLY what they are!! You clever thing! Thank you so much for that, now I can do something about them... I had noticed there were fewer when I let the plants dry out but despite trying, I couldn't find out what they were. Now I can work out how to attack them!

My chilli pepper and my sweet pepper plants and of course my houseplants heartily thank you!!:T

mrbadexample

I was going to say fungus gnats too! (Honest! :rolleyes:)

If they're in a nice sunny spot, you might consider growing a pinguicula (butterwort) next to them. They're carnivorous and specialise in tiny prey. A plant named Pinguicula weser is commonly available from garden centres (although there is a belief that this is not the genuine P. weser).

Money_saving_Diva_2

Yes of course you were Mrbadexample, I believe you!!;) :rotfl:

My chilli and pepper plants are in pots actually - some outside and some indoors - I bought plants that were suitable for pots and indoor growing and these lil fungus gnats quite ruined it all for me!! Anyway, I am buying sand now to put on the soil (as the article told me to - stops the females laying anymore eggs apparently) and will buy something extremely poisonous and nasty to blitz the houseplants before they start flowering and producing chillis!!

Anyway, thank you for the help too and I will look out for the lil blighter you suggested and get him in a pot in the garden next to the other plants that this fungus creature seems to love to live in!