Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Ok. I usually buy Black Gold Cactus Soil but being that Christmas is right around the corner, i went to Home Depot and got some Miracle Grow Cactus, Palm & Citrus soil for pshh.. like a quarter of the price! BIG MISTAKE. Within 2 days my apartment was swarming with what I thought was fruit flies! So I went around my apartment looking for the source, searched my fridge and couldn't find a ding-dongin' thing! Then i realized these flies were all around my plants! So my google searching began. The Miracle Grow was infested with some Miracle Fungus Gnats larvae! Not cool! So at first I did the apple cider vinegar trick.. worked ok but the second they came out of the soil they were determined to scatter throughout my apartment looking for a better place to lay eggs. So I needed another solution.. My inner-engineer came up with a quick solution for the time being, I put a window fan in the window next to my plants on high power, and a fan behind the plants. So basically a fan in the front and a fan in the back, both blowing towards the window. So the second the gnats took flight, they would get sucked out the window. And it worked! One problem: it's FRIGGIN DECEMBER IN NEW YORK so I'm freezing my fingers off! I needed one more solution to rid myself of the few remaining gnats and I decided to go with these sticky traps. They work. They work good. I took the advice of another reviewer and put some on sticks and some laying on the soil. On one of the sticks (I believe picture 2) there are like 6 gnats stuck at the very bottom of the trap. It looks like a big glob of soil lol but it's a bunch of bugs stuck together If I had these sticky traps at the time of the initial infestation, they would be loaded. but a lot of them got sucked out the window. I get about one or two a day but I haven't actually seen one flying around in a few days. I have been calling it the Great Gnat Watch of 2016. I constantly look and count to see how many have gotten stuck. I mean, I feel bad because they are living beings too.. but yo.. if you think you're going to land on the rim of my morning coffee and live to tell the tale, you are dead wrong. Literally. The traps are hideous looking but I really don't think my plants mind too much lol.