"Carol Russell" wrote in
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"Martin & Anna Sykes" wrote in message
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Any ideas about small black flies that have gone on some plants on
the kitchen window (thought they were 'bar' flies but then they
are now all
over
the room I moved them to)? There seems to me loads of them.

They may be Sciarid fly (fungus gnat), maggots feed on roots, if so a
soil drench may be needed.

I think that's what these are.

Giving the compost a mulch of fine gravel over the top works for me. They
only live in the top few millimeters of soil, and if they can't get to
that, they can't breed.

Victoria