Houseplant hacks: can butterworts control fungus gnats?

This pretty little plant is carnivorous, so when placed next to plants affected by the insect pest it can be an effective living flypaper The problem The fungus gnat is the pest that just keeps coming. You dry out the soil, set up sticky traps, maybe even reach for the hydrogen peroxide, and just when you think you’ve have won, they’re back. The adults are harmless but maddening, drifting around your face and laying the next generation in any damp compost they can find. And most controls o...

By Gynelle Leon