Fleas and then Maggots! How??

[Downthemedow]

Came home from holiday to find the house infested with fleas. Cat is duly deflead and the house is scrubbed within an inch of its life, flea spray applied everywhere. Not seen a flea for 10 days. House very tidy, as clean as it can be.

BUT! This morning, came down to find maggots all over the kitchen floor! How? Where can they have come from? Haven’t seen any flies recently, the kitchen bin is emptied regularly, have checked drains for anything rotting. House has never been cleaner.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to where the maggots can have come from, because I really don’t want this happening again! Can then have somehow come in on the cat?

Is there something dead under kickboards/ fridge?
Although I would have thought you woukd smell something rotting.

There's a dead something somewhere - under the cabinets or floor. Cat probably brought it in alive.

fleas are fleas. Live on your skin (or an animal) and suck blood. maggots are flies as larvae. Flies lay their eggs on rotting food, flesh etc and the maggots eat that. Somewhere something has provided food for the maggots and the flies have laid their eggs

Agree with the above comment^ something was brought in alive and has probably died

We once came home from holiday to find a room completely filled with hundreds of big blue bottle type flies. Dead ones, alive ones, we could see them all over the windows as we drove up the drive, and could hear them as soon as we opened the front door.

Luckily the door to that room was shut so that they (mostly) hadn't infested the whole house.

Turned out a bird had died in the chimney, and they were making their way down through the fireplace.

We opened all the windows in that room, killed the ones that failed to leave, and had to cover the fireplace with some bits of cardboard. You could hear them thudding against the cardboard for a good two months afterwards, until whatever had died decomposed enough that it wasn't tasty any more.

So yeah, I reckon you've got a dead thing somewhere.

Oh god. Ok, will hunt around for a possible dead thing. Thanks all.

Btw I wasn’t suggesting there was a connection between the fleas and the maggots, more than because the house had been so thoroughly cleaned it seemed an odd time for maggots to appear

Maybe the cat brought in something maggoty and then took it out again (leaving the maggots behind)?

Cats are just so giving aren't they? It's a good job they have winsome personalities or they'd never set paw indoors!

There will be a dead thing somewhere.

One summer we had cluster flies all over a windowsill. Apparently they come in through the bricks. It only ever happened once.

@VimesandhisCardboardBoots I’m not usually squeamish over flies/ bugs/rodents but that is the stuff of nightmares.
OP if you’re still worried about fleas buy the bombs off Amazon. Follow the instructions and they’re very effective.

@Allthehorsesintheworld i think (touch wood) the fleas are gone. It’s just so grim that we have this new problem!

@unsync yep, I frequently tell her if she wasn’t so beautiful she’d be out on the streets. Even her personality is pretty unpleasant but I love her anyway!