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This is from a post below.

I found this guy in the egg with maggots eating a hole in his side. While I still think a good egg cannot get eating by a maggot I beleive this guy drowned in the egg first rather than being eaten alive.

Anyone have any tricks to getting rid of knats? I seem to have them in all my snake cages this year and everytime a snake deficates there they are.

Bummer, nice king/rat snake. I agree, normally the blasted pieces of carp flys, do not "normally" harm good eggs, but I have had it happen. Buts its not normal. Thanks FR

I raise bugs for lizards so must be very selective about pesticides. I hung a common sticky type fly paper roll, available at feed and grain stores recently. It works well, there are lots of gnats stuck on it, and works even better if I keep my hair out of it! It does not completely eliminate them, however. I hope someone suggests a cure, as these gnats get into my cricket cultures and also into reptile cages as you mentioned.

ive used fly paper rolls some success but no irradication and then i tried fly bait granuals w/ poor results .i say you had a dead in egg animal.
last year i had a hell of a time trying to hatch infertile eggs and blamming the "carian fruit fly"[according to me] (carnivorous drosophila)on my demise LOL. Chris

It can be an ongoing effort. First and fore most keep cages clean, clean, clean. Inspect for uneaten food ASAP. Remove refuse from room daily. I have also made a trap of sorts for them. I'll place an uneaten pink out in the open in a deli cup that has been sprayed with provent-a-mite. Any free flying flies don't last long after contacting permiethrins (sp?).