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What the fuck?!!! Maggots

208 replies

Soubriquet · 22/09/2024 21:48

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!!

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Bogginsthe3rd · 23/09/2024 00:34

What do they taste like? If feasting off a dead human they will have a distinctive taste OP.

SnowFrogJelly · 23/09/2024 00:39

Eeeeeeeewwwwwww 😳

Sleepydoor · 23/09/2024 02:06

Soubriquet · 22/09/2024 22:40

Dh has gone out to get photos for you curious people

Well done! Thanks to your DH!

Clueless2024 · 23/09/2024 02:09

We moved into a new house once & for some unknown reason just had maggots appear in our garage - we had a 2nd fridge in the garage, but it was properly cleaned and stored, prior to the move, so not like any rotting stuff was attached.... it was actually fucking gross & I freaked out somewhat.... Still don't know how/where they came from... shudders

AtomHeartMotherOfGod · 23/09/2024 02:16

I'll bet someone's said but I reckon this is an updraft issue. This weather is oomphy and it's sucked up maggots from somewhere and dumped them all out in your rain.

I've read in an 'Extreme Weather' book several tales of it raining frogs, fish etc. due to this. It's got to be a contender if they're all over the street.

Mumoftwochildrenand6furkids · 23/09/2024 02:16

Sorry but that would be in an cab to an hotel for the night for me, Anything like that what squirms is my worse nightmare, Maggots, Worms, Slugs and snails they make me feel sick. Hate to say it but if theres that many im thinking there is something/one dead around that way attracting them.

BiscottiToffee · 23/09/2024 02:56

Hope it gets sorted.

Azure6 · 23/09/2024 03:02

I remember this happened once at my mums front path. The neighbour had put out her bin (which she placed closer to my mums gate than her own for some reason) and it had a chicken carcass inside, unbagged. It took lots of boiling water and bleach to kill them all. Was grim.

dunBle · 23/09/2024 03:36

LastNight1Dreamt1WentToManderleyAgain · 22/09/2024 22:46

Is a nice helpful serial killer neighbour about to be exposed

Yes, wasn't it a manhole cover issue that led to Dennis Nielsen being caught?

Threewheeler1 · 23/09/2024 04:49

Noodlehen · 22/09/2024 23:39

Omg what the hell, those pictures are the thing of nightmares

I know! I don't understand how this could happen😮😮😮
I feel like things are crawling on me...
OP, can't offer any advice, only commiserations!
I'm off to check my door seals 😬

Threewheeler1 · 23/09/2024 04:52

SqueezeItOut · 22/09/2024 23:46

Please tell me your new build estate isn’t just outside Sheffield? <peers nervously out the window>

Hands up how many of us have just looked outside?👀😬

WiddlinDiddlin · 23/09/2024 06:10

They are unlikely to be the type of maggots from houseflies/bluebottles, that feed on dead meat/rotting food.

These will be the larval form of some fly or beetle (yes, thats what maggots are, lots of creatures have a rather maggoty larval form), that lives just under the soil and feeds on roots or crawls out at night to feed.

The heavy rain, both the waterlogging and the percussive effect on the ground drives them out in massive numbers particularly if that rainfall coincides with them being ready to pupate (which a lot of species will be right about now).

They're seeming to try to come up the path, up your door etc as they're desperate to get out of the water or they'll drown. So they seek higher ground, dryer ground etc.

The type of maggots that eat rotting meat etc will never be far from a corpse or other food source, they can't survive. If the food source is all gone they pupate or just die, they don't leave en masse to look for more, so you can rule out that sort of maggot.

As lots of species have very similar looking larval forms the only way to find out truly what they are would be to keep some, feed them til they pupate and then wait for them to emerge. I assume you won't be bothering!

CleopatrasBeautifulNose · 23/09/2024 06:18

@WiddlinDiddlin 👌👍

Threewheeler1 · 23/09/2024 06:23

@WiddlinDiddlin
I always learn something from your posts! You're like the MN encyclopedia 😁👏

TerfTalking · 23/09/2024 06:30

WrigglyDonCat · 22/09/2024 22:16

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

Get them out of the house and brush them away from the threshold. Salt the threshold. Then leave those outside.

the birds will have a field day and they will all be gone in a day or two.

HallidayJones6779 · 23/09/2024 06:31

Thanks to DH for the photos! Here for the updates later today!

Cryingatthegym · 23/09/2024 06:52

StiffyByngsDogBartholomew · 22/09/2024 22:21

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

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

👏👏👏

snowlady4 · 23/09/2024 06:57

Oh how traumatic. I had never heard of a maggot infestation until recently- actually someone on here who had them in the carpets.
I'm no expert but I imagine clearing away as many as you can is the way to go (or surely you will have a fly problem soon too,) and ring pest control immediately. Don't wait on the council, pay privately if you can. Do exactly what they say.
Good luck

isthismylifenow · 23/09/2024 07:01

Just checking in to see if you are still both here OP.

@WiddlinDiddlin I enjoyed reading your post. As odd as that sounds. I feel prepared for anything now.

isthismylifenow · 23/09/2024 07:06

Do exactly what they say.
Good luck

This made me laugh.

It could be a maggot hostage note for the house.

Globules · 23/09/2024 07:17

Note to self to not go on MN late at night.

What with this thread and the man breaking into the flat without provocation, I did not sleep at all well last night.

JustEatTheOneInTheBallPit · 23/09/2024 07:37

Not maggots but my street once had a blue bottle swarm that must have been into the millions, like you describe.

It was my neighbour and… um… well, they didn’t get many visitors so their situation went unnoticed for a week or so. It was sad and disgusting in equal measure.

6pence · 23/09/2024 07:48

How’s life this morning op? If you’ve survived?

Mirabai · 23/09/2024 08:31

It’s very obviously a biblical plague.

drowninginsick · 23/09/2024 08:42

Never wanted to hear an update from an op more Grin

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