What the fuck?!!! Maggots

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We’ve just opened our front door to a load of maggots. They have dropped in into our hall way, there is an infestation on the front lawn and there’s no reason why!! There’s no food in that area and they literally just appeared cos it’s raining. Why!!

If they are around in the morning does that mean DH didn't make it? I think I've seen this film...

dh has whipped him self up into a frenzy maggot fighting. He will win.

What the fuck is he? A lizard?

not quite. He’s armed himself with salt and bleach

Maybe some dead carcas on the roof or in a gutter - like a rat that had been poisoned or a squirrel, infested with maggots on the roof and the rain has made it fall off the roof or float out and over the side of the gutter?

Can you keep us updated with all tools you are using to quell the horde, and what is most effective? Just in case this is the start of a horror film and they come for all of us.

Yours, in eager anticipation of aforementioned photographs.

Count Adhemar

Hmmm. I’ll get him to check tomorrow. I can’t smell anything rotting but that doesn’t mean anything really does it

Can I interest you in some Blush beautiful cosmetics, Madam ?

(rather proud of my memory or maybe I've watched too much Buffy...)

He’s armed himself with salt and bleach

Kettlefull of boiling water would be more effective and less messy.

I have the same issue but suspect it’s my bins. DH is out and I’ve already tried hot water and salt and vinegar but they won’t disappear. Hoping they’re gone in the morning otherwise I may cry if I have to leave the house with them. crawling everywhere 😥

They are only baby flies op, no need for germ warfare.

Don’t be surprised if there aren’t more tomorrow if something is rotting nearby it will take a few days for the lifecycle to complete.

Wait, two of you have the same thing? This is an invasion.

Not brilliant photos really but this shows our hallway where they came in, and then the hoover chamber where he hoovered up the first hoard before realising it was worse than what he thought

And if he doesn't win, you will find an even greater pile tomorrow morning where he once stood!

Well yes I get that, and I also know flies are important for the nature system, doesn’t mean I want them in my house!!

Mix roofing bitumen and petrol. Spread around liberally. Ignite with garden weed burner lance thingy. DIY Greek Fire. Doesn't even matter if it rains again - should just go right on burning, so a good night's sleep for all and no more maggots in the morning (possibly no more housing estate, but sometimes there has to be a little collateral damage).

I noticed something moving in one of my plant pots outside and when I put a trowel in it was a whole squiggling writhing nest of white maggoty things. Loads of them. Nothing dead in sight. No idea how they got in there. Or where they went as I just left them there. Couldn't face touching anything in the vicinity for weeks.. It was vile.

This happened to my friend last year. It was in the news. A freak weather / ecology combo.

Nah we’ve gone right for thermite. That will nuke the fuckers

Poor you & dh op this sounds awful

There's a food source, a corpse, pile of organic rubbish and the maggots from it are now ready to pupate, to turn into flies, they crawl away from the source and find somewhere to bury themselves. If there's millions it has to be a biggish food source, more than a mouse. Perhaps a dead duck, cat, fox or large fish. They're bloody difficult to kill too. Boiling water is your best bet, or hose them away. They'll keep coming though until the source is removed or the maggots have eaten it up.

I had them in my kitchen. Something small (fortunately) died under my washing machine. It happened when we were on holiday. When we got back there were lots of dead flies on the window sill and I found the pupae under the doormat. Ick! I shudder remembering it.

Who the fuck hoovers up maggots 🤣

I can't believe you've hoovered up maggots. What do you think they are going to do in the hoover compartment? Feed on all the bits of food and crap that's hoovered up!

https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/people/maggots-swarm-gardens-in-blackpool-cleveleys-and-fleetwood-4294887

Could they have been flying ant lavae? They like to bury themselves in plant pots. Then they all suddenly emerge at once.

I think he panicked. Cos they were suddenly just there!! And cos there was so many, he just got his hoover out. He’s gonna take them outside and pour boiling water on them