# What do gnats eat?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 24, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-gnats-eat/6537 "2000-01-24T15:18:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-gnats-eat/6537/21 "2000-01-26T15:45:00Z")

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They eat smaller Gnats.

I remember summers in central Texas, and these little flies that looked like specks of soot; an apt analogy as when they bit it felt like a hot ember!

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VB

Remember, you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish!

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