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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / August 2005Gnats?
some kind of tiny fly-looking things won't leave the wet food alone...all other food and stuff they'd be interested in is put away, but you obviously can't put the cat food away or spray it with bug spray...how to get rid of them? >some kind of tiny fly-looking things won't leave the wet food alone...all >other food and stuff they'd be interested in is put away, but you obviously >can't put the cat food away or spray it with bug spray...how to get rid of >them? Why can't you put the Cat food away? I feed my Cats twice a day and when they are finished,it gets picked up and saved for later. Water is the only thing I leave out and exposed. Or do you mean they will not leave the food alone while the Cat is trying to eat? Ray WebElder I don't "Suffer" from Insanity..I rather enjoy it! CATTS http://members.tripod.com/~thewebster/catts.html Home Page http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/9826/meshead.html both...they've basically always had their food out all the time for years...wouldn't they freak if i changed that? >>some kind of tiny fly-looking things won't leave the wet food alone...all >>other food and stuff they'd be interested in is put away, but you [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Home Page > http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/9826/meshead.html > some kind of tiny fly-looking things won't leave the wet food alone...all > other food and stuff they'd be interested in is put away, but you > obviously can't put the cat food away or spray it with bug spray...how to > get rid of them? We call them garbage flies Don't leave wet food out. MLB >> some kind of tiny fly-looking things won't leave the wet food alone...all >> other food and stuff they'd be interested in is put away, but you >> obviously can't put the cat food away or spray it with bug spray...how to >> get rid of them? > > We call them garbage flies Don't leave wet food out. MLB Seeing as that "garbage flies" are similar to house flies, perhaps these tiny flies the OP describes are actually fruit flies? I doubt that they are gnats as these guys go for plants. a couple people have asked me if they're fruit flies...so i put out a bowl of honey all day yesterday and they didn't go anywhere near it...they much prefer cat food >>> some kind of tiny fly-looking things won't leave the wet food >>> alone...all [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > tiny flies the OP describes are actually fruit flies? I doubt that they > are gnats as these guys go for plants. same question...they're used to getting a can and having it out there for as long as they want and they do eat it little by little over the course of the day and night...one of them for almost 15 years...wouldn't that confuse them? (there's no food out right now, though, since i finally got frustrated and, since i couldn't find them anywhere else, figured maybe dousing the food dishes with bug spray would finish the little f.ckers off) >> some kind of tiny fly-looking things won't leave the wet food alone...all >> other food and stuff they'd be interested in is put away, but you >> obviously can't put the cat food away or spray it with bug spray...how to >> get rid of them? > > We call them garbage flies Don't leave wet food out. MLB > same question...they're used to getting a can and having it out there for as > long as they want and they do eat it little by little over the course of the > day and night...one of them for almost 15 years...wouldn't that confuse > them? (there's no food out right now, though, since i finally got > frustrated and, since i couldn't find them anywhere else, figured maybe > dousing the food dishes with bug spray would finish the little f.ckers off) Are these in your home? If so they are either coming in from some open space or breeding within the home. You have to find out where they are bredding and kill off the colony. Is this dry cat food that has possibly been damp and is fermenting? If so it could be fruit flies - tan with red eyes? They are attracted to fermenting foods/fruit/grains/etc. - but NOT meat. Otherwise it is a carnivorous fly and there are *tons* of species. -L. |
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