I have birds, a turtle, and dogs, and yes, the occasional bug. I use a curly fly tape. It has no chemicals as far as i can smell and is very sticky. Recently, iacquired a new plant. She had been in the GH for the past 5 days. Yesterday, i noticed gnats in the pot. It's sitting outside right now A fly tape will be in the GH by the end of today to get any gnats that flew out of the pot!