What the fuck?!!! Maggots

[Soubriquet]

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!!

Well…it gets a bit weirder. Woken up this morning to find them………..

all gone! Just disappeared. Apart from the few who manages to get into the house but died in the salt traps, they are all gone!! How freaky is that? These pictures show what I mean about the pond that’s being built. The square bit there is also where the rubbish goes. Just to show you how it all works. Dh has not been over taken and join the maggots which I’m glad.

I saw a Reddit post about a similar situation also last night, Nottingham area I think.

Thank you. This actually makes a lot of sense and explains why they suddenly just appeared and now disappeared.

There will be loads of fat, happy birds in your area!

Best post I've seen on this board for a while 👏

The heavy rain, both the waterlogging and the percussive effect on the ground drives them out in massive numbers

Fabulous image!

Percussive makes me think of instruments & them sort of dancing their way along!

"You scumbags, you maggots..." 🎵🎶

I knew there was a reason maggots are nicknamed Disco Rice!

Disco RIce? 🤣🤢

🤣🤣🤣

@CleopatrasBeautifulNose I can't take the credit, it was @LokiDoki75 I'd never heard it till today 🤣

Do your neighbours go fishing? Could they have gone fishing but dropped their bucket of maggots on the driveway? My brother goes fishing so buys huge buckets of maggots when he goes

"You scumbags, you maggots..." 🎵🎶

Brilliant!

I knew there was a reason maggots are nicknamed Disco Rice!

They are??

Not sure if this has been mentioned but for anyone with a maggot problem possibly in the future, use ant powder, it kills them off, whenever I've had maggots in the wheelie bin usually during once or twice during the summer, I jet wash the bin, shake ant powder inside the bin and it kills them.

The ones I had have mainly gone from the path but there are still some hiding in the bin. I think they are trying to stay dry. 😳 They don’t look like the type from house flies. They are much bigger. Still pouring hot water in hope they run away. I’ve seen the odd one on other streets nearby but not as many as last night! Phew 😰!

Omg

@WiddlinDiddlin thanks for your very interesting and informative post.

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!

Helpfully @Soubriquet s DH has a hoovered up sample! See what they pupate into!!!

They will not pupate! He’s emptied the chamber and then made sure they are dead

This happened on another new.estate.cant remember where I saw it may have been on Facebook news pages but turned out they'd built on top of a landfill. I'd defo get someone to check the drains and they will disappear when it dries up towards morning because they'll go back down to find food. Your hoover will ndefo.need thrown because they'll have laid eggs in the filter by now. We defo need an update to what the council think it is

Are you on one of the new estates in Lytham St Ann's just near Blackpool op?

No, no we really don’t.

Neighbour put a chicken carcass in our shared compost bin, back when you could put food waste in them. Then we got maggots, so many mindless wriggling white things. I poured boiling water over them but they kept on coming 😱😱

Fortunately he realised and cleaned the bin. Still gives me the heebie jeebies.

If you are a new build is it possible they are leather jackets? Brought out with the wet weather?

Many years ago in the summer, I was on the phone to a friend.. I saw a bag on the floor which had a packed lunch box in from the previous week.
I was chatting away to friend and opened lunchbox... It was full of maggots... I screamed "EWWWW MAGGOTS" and dropped the phone which disconnected.. Friend was very concerned and rang me back.
Three years ago, again during a hot summer our bin ended up full of maggots after a bbq. That was horrendous.. We had to empty the bin get the maggots out and kill them and double bag the bags.

Just to say and to manage expectations, that’s a SUDs basin and I imagine it is complete. It is built like that to prevent flooding and slow surface water entering the ground from the estates roads. They sometimes have reed beds to filter the water too.

so when it’s wet they fill up, in the summer they are likely to remain dry. They are measured to accommodate more water than they need so will only get full on occasion.

this isn’t a great explanation of a SUD but gives some info - give it a google! But you’re not likely to get a lovely filled pond with ducks!