I have an annoying problem going on.  I’ve been using this wonderful product exclusively for a long time (I only use unscented clay litter mixed w/ pine when training new rescues to use it)
Recently though I have had fruit flies invading my litter boxes.  I try to scoop the solids as soon as I find them and it helps a little and I change the litter completely a bit sooner than I used to. This has helped a bit but not much.  I am now seeing an occasional gnat in my kitchen too which really grosses me out since I know where they’ve been.  I don’t know how the problem started but I’d really like a non-toxic solution.  I’m going to try paper painted w/ honey or maybe a little dish of beer but I don’t know if the cats will mess w/ that or not or if it will even work.  Any suggestions?

Honey doesn’t work AT ALL. I was too afraid the beer would make them thrive so I didn’t even try it. I am now trying fly paper roll with a little bit of old banana stuffed in roll at bottom, hung up high enough so the cats don’t mess w/it.  A few gnats are stuck there now but nothing impressive.  And OF COURSE I walked into it….just lovely.
Today I snuck up on a freshly “used” litter box (tons of gnats feasting uuuuuuggggggghhhhh) and dumped a bunch of regular litter on top of them and rushed it all outside to be bagged.
I made a significant dent in the number that way but its a huge waste of my pine litter.

It makes me so mad to see my poor cats and kittens trying to do their business and gnats flying all around them!
Someone out there has to know how I can get rid of these bastards safely!
I’m wondering if I give some of the cats Ivermectin (NOT SAFE)will that kill the gnats when they eat the poop?
I HATE ivermectin but it IS approved **(by our vet—-PLEASE DON’T even think about using it w/out a vets approval and dosing instructions b/c it is potentially lethal at the wrong dose.)**  for use as a dewormer—although I doubt any of my cats have worms and I don’t use it on kittens.  I’m not quite ready to do that yet, but its very tempting.  Ivermectin is such toxic nasty stuff and takes forever to break down in the environment.

So far they are only in 2 rooms of my house—my walk-in BR closet and the spare kitten room but they are finding their way to my kitchen and I’m sure will eventually find the boxes in the other cat rooms.
Also I’m keeping recycles in the garage now even tho I wash them (saw a couple of them in an empty yogurt cup)and garbage goes immediately into garage and kitchen/compost scraps go into the freezer until I can run them out back to the pile and no fruit or veggies on counter—ruining my tomatoes and peaches putting them in fridge!