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A while back, some type of gnat (or something like it) managed to get into my home, and then into my computer room. Somewhere in here there's a nest of the damned things, I'm guessing in the air vent. Regardless, they've taken to killing themselves by diving into my drinks. Stop laughing. They literally land in my drinks and drown to death. After the seventh suicide, or so, you begin to get sick of taking a drink, only to see the floating carcass of a Kami-gnat.

Just thought I'd share that random annoyance with everyone. Now I'm off to pour out my coffee, again.

euw, coffee.

What you need is a cup for bait and another one to drink from.

Just gas the room.

We have some mice here sometimes, and do that all the ti-- oh... that kind of gas.

Take a glass, fill it with sugar water. Put plastic wrap over the cup, and poke a tiny hole in it. The bugs will fly in, find the hole, and drown in the cup. After a few days their numbers may decline. Works for me and fruit flies. Not sure about gnats, though.

Interesting dilemma. Though can't you just scoop the gnat out of the cup?

Well, that's the thing, I don't really know if they're gnats or not. I think they're too big to be gnats, but they're so damned annoying that I think I'll just keep calling them gnats. Regardless, they could be a disease carrying pest, which is why I don't just swallow them for their rich and juicy protein.

Paint a vertically-placed cup of whatever on the wall. Note that you will have to wash the wall after that.

I now have kamikaze insects. Although they've yet to dive into my morning coffee. I just wait for them to fly in front of my screen and clap my hands. Seems to get them.

My cat catches moths in the back garden and brings them to my bedroom to 'play'...

Flipside wrote:My cat catches moths in the back garden and brings them to my bedroom to 'play'...

Mine brought a pidgeon inside the place once. A live pidgeon. That was a nightmare...

Ours used to bring frogs in to play with. He'd never eat them, just play with them, usually they were alive or half dead. Sometimes we'd find frogs that had died from dehydration behind the furniture, no doubt from where they had been terrified and hiding.

Gross.

not sanitary.