Maggots in my wheelie bin :(

[Boredsillyathome]

I woke up this morning to find maggots in our wheelie bin!! It's totally freaked me out they are just vile!! Our rubbish gets picked up every 2 weeks so I'm guessing with the hot weather flies have found there way in there, does anyone know how to get rid of them? Honestly it makes me feel disgusted and so dirty!! Thank you!!!

[turnthebiglightoff]

Leave the bin open near to some birds. Problem will go pretty soon! Then give it a hose and disenfectant.

[Deux]

Pour a kettle or 2 of boiling water in there and then tip the bin on its side to get the water out or upside down if you can manage it.

I’ve kept an old mop and use that to clean out the bin if needed. Bucket of soapy water in there and mop down the sides and bottom

[WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat]

Sell them to fishermen?

[Boredsillyathome]

Thank you I will give the boiling water a go and see if that gets rid of the little buggers!

[Boredsillyathome]

@WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat ironically my husband does go fishing!!! Lol!!

[Chasingsquirrels]

I put mine on its side in the hen area, that gets rid of them.

I'd imagine leaving the lid open after it's been emptied to let birds get at them would do the same job.

[speakball]

You don't need to worry about them. They're not going to hurt you just leave bin open for birds to eat. Do you pour boiling water over your garden when you see ants, worms, grubs?

[gingergiraffe]

A cringing story. A few years ago one evening, my friend put her bin out for collection the next morning. It was dark and the maggots in her bin were attracted by the lights from her house and were making their way down the path towards the lights. A lot of kettles of boiling water sorted them out! Ugh. My worst nightmare.

[Boredsillyathome]

@gingergiraffe that is horrific thank god mine weren't that bad!!

[Boredsillyathome]

The boiling water has worked got rid of them all, gave the bin a proper wash out so I really hope I don't get them again!

[Minesateaorthree]

Ewww mine too. We have a food waste caddy. Council haven't collected in three weeks. The lid locks but still they've appeared.... I'd have shoved it all into the landfill bin had I known they'd not collect the caddy again last wk. Plenty of hot water and jeyes fluid. Yuk

[Holothane]

We used boiling water and loads of bleach, this was a few years ago now.

[SoosanCarter]

Sounds odd, but in the summer I freeze my food scraps, double bagged, in the bottom drawer of the freezer until food caddy collection day.
Had maggots one year, before I started freezing stuff.

[Ifailed]

you should be grateful to them, they are cleaning up the mess in the bin.

[OnlyFoolsnMothers]

Boiling water + bleach = then clean your bin.

My husband thinks I’m crazy when I’m
On the drive cleaning the bin and food caddy but one year we had maggots and I was so disgusted. Same reason I sprinkle salt up and down my drive every spring before I risk ants! Don’t care if I’m the mad woman of the neighbourhood

[schnubbins]

@SoosanCarter I do the same thing with my meat scraps.I had one incidence of maggots and never ever want experience it again.Everyone thinks I'm loopy when I tell them.Im separating my rubbish anyway so for me its just one thing more and saves a lot of hassle.

[Fluffycloudland77]

I’d have left them to the birds. You poured boiling water over something with a nervous system.

[GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER]

The flies that lay the eggs can literally smell dead meat from about a mile away.
Any scraps of meat or fish here, or e.g. a chicken carcass, go in a food waste bag in the freezer - and we only have a small, under-the-fridge one - until the night before the bin men come. Especially necessary in warm weather, though I do it all year round now.