The set up - I am paranoid about my wheelie bins smelling and attracting flies and other vermin.
My rubbish is always bagged, sometimes double bagged and waste food is frozen in a freezer bag and put out last thing on Tuesday evening.
The wheelie bin is washed out once a month. It currently smells of Zoflora Mandarin & Lime.
To be clear - there is no raw rubbish of any description in my wheelie bin.
My bins are emptied every other week, so twice in a month.
Two weeks ago, I moved my bins to put the rubbish out for the bin men and found nut shells (neighbours) and maggots in the corner under and around my rubbish bin.
I swept them up and away. Without fail, every maggot that survived the initial brushing and which ended up halfway to the kerb, did a 180 degree turn and headed back to the same corner I swept them from.
There was nothing to go back to - they were heading towards concrete and brick.
I swept them into the gutter.
The same thing happened today. I found cigarette ash (the neighbours chain smoke), nut shells (same scummy neighbours) and maggots in the same corner.
The maggots were huddling towards a spot by the doorstep - there was nothing there, but dust.
I checked under the bin, there is nothing there except dust and hair.
I swept the ash, shells and maggots towards the kerb and gutter - one of the neighbours was washing his car and the waste water swept the dust, shells and maggots away.
The same thing happened as a fortnight ago.
The few maggots that survived the initial sweep and only made it halfway to the kerb did a 180 degree turn and started back towards the now clean point by my doorstep.
Do they point towards magnetic north? Are they trying to eat my house?