Mort aux fungus gnats!

They burrow into the soil of my houseplants and lay eggs that grow up into larvae that chew on the plant roots. Which is not a big deal unless the gnats are spreading some kind of plant typhoid such as, say, hippeastrum mosaic virus.

So today I have declared war. Biological war, chemical war, and good old fashioned kinetic action. I drenched all the plants in my office suite with a solution of Bacillus thuringensis var. israelensis, the first of three weekly "heavy infestation" applications, which I will follow up with "light infestation" applications for a couple more weeks. I am spraying every morning with a pyrethrin-based knockdown agent until my yellow sticky traps arrive (fungus gnats love yellow sticky stuff, I understand). And, when I can, I crush them with my thumb.

Die, die, die.