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The lantern-style device features a blue-violet light to attract gnats, mosquitos, wasps, moths, and more, while the plastic surrounding and 4200V voltage traps and zaps them for good.
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Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 9 July 2025
Add a layer of small gravel over the surface so gnats can’t reach the potting mix to eat the fungus that naturally develops in the mix, nor to lay their eggs.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025
Watch Goldberg kill a gnat live on the air in the video above.
—EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
As its name suggests, skunk cabbage flowers give off a musky odor that attracts carrion-eating flies and gnats.
—Skylar Knight, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
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Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 9 July 2025
Add a layer of small gravel over the surface so gnats can’t reach the potting mix to eat the fungus that naturally develops in the mix, nor to lay their eggs.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025
Watch Goldberg kill a gnat live on the air in the video above.
—EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
As its name suggests, skunk cabbage flowers give off a musky odor that attracts carrion-eating flies and gnats.
—Skylar Knight, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
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“Gnat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gnat. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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gnat
noun
: any of various small usually biting two-winged flies
Medical Definition
gnat
noun
: any of various small usually biting dipteran flies (as a midge or blackfly)
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