{"id":2974,"date":"2012-08-01T10:51:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T17:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2012-08-01T10:51:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T17:51:25","slug":"gnat-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2012\/08\/gnat-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnat Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8288\/7518990350_5cdb163eb9_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><em><span style=\"text-align: center; color: #888888;\">Pinguicula &#8216;John Rizzi&#8217; doing it&#8217;s thang.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fungus_gnat\" target=\"blank\">Fungus gnats<\/a> are effin&#8217; irritating. Plain and simple. Earlier this year I started to germinate my 2011 Sarracenia crosses (read up about how I started that <a href=\"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/starting-seeds-2012-the-next-generation\/\" target=\"blank\">here<\/a>), and all the seedlings are doing awesome! One thing though that irritated the bajeebiez out of me were these freaking fungus gnats. I don&#8217;t think they posed any harm to the plants. In fact, the baby Sarracenia were already munching on these\u00a0irritating\u00a0creatures. (You can read about that <a href=\"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/hungry-youngsters\/\" target=\"blank\">here<\/a>.) To help with some of that gnat control, I placed a few Pinguicula in the tray alongside the seedlings. <a href=\"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/11\/behind-glass\/\" target=\"blank\">I aslo did this last January too when starting my 2010 seeds behind glass<\/a>. Before you know it, pretty soon I didn&#8217;t notice any more of these little pests flying around. Dude, if I could give my Pinguiculas a fist bump, I would. Good job, Pings. Good job.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinguicula &#8216;John Rizzi&#8217; doing it&#8217;s thang. Fungus gnats are effin&#8217; irritating. Plain and simple. Earlier this year I started to germinate my 2011 Sarracenia crosses (read up about how I started that here), and all the seedlings are doing awesome! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2012\/08\/gnat-control\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[680,682,681,679,655,683],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-gnat","tag-gnats-are-irritating","tag-gnats-suck","tag-john-rizzi","tag-pinguicula","tag-sarracenia-seedling-companions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}