SOS there’s maggots in my bin! What the f do I do??

[Isitweekendyet]

Just taken the bins out for the first time after the weekend after being out most of the week and we have maggot EVERYWHERE.

Bin day isn’t until a week on Tuesday it’s bastarding recycling this week and we didn’t take the bins out this week because they were barely full —stupid us won’t be doing that again— can I buy something to spray on them/pour in the bin to kill them?

Or will I have to buy a fire blower and torch the entire thing before the reach the house 😂

Just don’t salt them and leave for the birds as they can’t eat salt and it will potentially kill the birds too.

I’ve not even looked in my bin I’m too chicken. Might send DH out in the morning. It’s 2 weeks before our food waste is collected again, this weeks collection must have been disgusting!

It's grim isn't it @Isitweekendyet ???

We had SHIT loads last year, and the only way to shift them WAS boiling water.

Seems cruel I thought, but as someone said to me, just think of them as a virus or bacteria, and the boiling water as the anti-biotic.

If you don't shift them, you'll have multiple 100s of FLIES everywhere (poss over a 1000!) So ditch that boiling water all over them NOW.

Haven't had them this year, as I double bagged everything.

I had this a couple of weeks ago.

I took all the rubbish out and rebagged it in black bin liners, then left the lid open and they were all gone the next day.

I don’t get the squeamishness - maggots are very clean in themselves!

It's the sheer volume and the all the tons of wriggliness @FamilyOfAliens !!!

Oddly, I can happily look at 1000s of maggots in fishermens pots/fishing tackle shops, but when they are in (rotten) food, or wheelie bins, they make me shudder and feel a bit 🤢 !!!

We had this last year and dh sprayed them to death with fly spray . Since then we’ve double bagged anything that goes out and we’ve not had any problems since

Birds.
Just open it early and leave them to it

I hate maggots too, they make my skin crawl 😖

I'm just thankful that the sparrows etc just gobbled them all up out of my wheelie bin 😊

We had this last summer! I just reached straight for a can of fly spray and unleashed chemical hell on the little bastards!

We moved house soon after so I don't know if 300ml of Raid works...

I advise moving house!

I’d much rather have harmless maggots in the bin than toxic insecticide spray, salt, or chemical bleach! Some councils use the contents of your bin to produce compost for sale to gardeners - they won’t want it contaminated by that little lot.
Leave the bin open for the birds to eat the maggots, or just let them hatch into bluebottles. The maggots are doing a useful job, digesting your waste meat products in the bin.
All part of the circle of life...!

Why would you rather have maggots in your bin than salt?

I went out to my green bin yesterday evening to put some grass and hedge cuttings in and some bugger, in the last couple of days, has put a bin bag, with god knows what in side, in my bin.
it's writhing with maggots.
Our collection is tomorrow so now I've got to clear some else crap And maggots out my bin... not happy.

This happens to my bin all the time because they only get emptied every 4th Monday. I'm terrified of worms and maggots aswell. Fist time I opened the bin a d put something in and one touched my hand. I had to bleach it (I know how crazy that sounds). Never used to happen, only started about 3 years ago and now it's every summer.

Just leave the bins open and nature will clean it up. I don't get people who kill maggots in their bin. It's like digging up your garden to kill the insects. I'd understand if it was in your kitchen but these bins are outside

The birds will eat them, just leave the lid open.

Putting poison on them risks killing the birds too.

Obviouspretzel, because salt kills plants, and the council uses the bin contents to make compost. If a large number of householders took the advice and lavishly salted their bins, the resulting compost could have a high salt content and be unusable. I wouldn’t want to use compost on my vegetable plot that was full of bleach and insecticide, either.

My bin is crawling with them because of the heat, gets collected this week. And I thought “oh yuk maggots” then did nothing!

It’s a bin, it’s outside, it’ll get emptied soon enough. Why can’t they be ignored?

Spray them with fly spray, kills them instantly. And in future use bags for your food waste. The flies only lay their eggs on food .

We had this a few summers ago. I washed about with boiling water and thoroughly bleached the bin, double bagged all waste. STILL got maggots again about a week later. Now pay to have the bin cleaned as I can't face that every week!

I womaned up, had a glass of wine and ran outside under the dead of night to open the lid. Did it on all the bins because i didn’t known if they were similarly infected.

Will buy bug spray later today to finish them off.

Our bin collections are 3 weekly now! I have 2 cats and a toddler in nappies so have 3 weeks worth of shit bagged up inside my bin 🤮. I opened my bin the other day and it was something out of Amityville Horror with all the flies that came out. Maggots and flies everywhere I just flung in a load of bleach and boiling water. There used to be a guy that came round and power washed them but he's disappeared.

BinBuddy is a faithful friend to bins.

Just let the bin men empty it, and then chuck some boiling water in once it's empty! They're used to it and they use that machine/hoist thing so it's not like they're touching them.

In future keep a food waste caddy in the kitchen and tie the biodegradable bags securely before putting in the big bin.
And keep all scraps of meat or fish (most likely to attract flies) separately in a bag in the freezer until the night before the bin men come.

So just to be clear - if they are on the bottom of a big wheelie bin the little birdies will still go in and scoff them?
Gotta live those little birdies