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!!

I hope he’s not been putting salt and bleach on your lawn 😳😳😳😳😳

Oh my good that’s grim. I hate maggots, this is my worst nightmare!

Only the adult insect can lay eggs, the larvae (maggots) aren't sexually mature, so OP's hoover will be egg free.

Maggots won't lay eggs, they need to vo through inswct puberty first!

Lol dancing maggots , like something out of jungle book

@Soubriquet this thread has got me squirming and laughing in measures.

Oh, dancing rice!

A neighbour fisherman must have posted them through your letterbox and scattered them on your lawn

I’m glad you find it amusing

Jesus Christ those photos are horrifying.

I was starting to think I was the only one calling them similar. I’m always hearing them called Disco Rice! This is what happens when you have family working in Environmental Health departments for years 😂

Gosh this is my idea of a nightmare! Glad they have retreated, looking at your photo (and I could be wrong) is your estate on an old strawberry picking field? I wonder if there’s something in the soil that encouraged the insect growth

Oh my gosh I could have written this. We had this problem on our bricked front
also coming up in hall between floor and skirting boards.
had it last year
had it twice this year.
no food no nothing
we are convinced there’s a body under our house as person who built it was a criminal lol
I did discover about daddy long legs lay on grass and wreck grass and look like maggots
I even did all the sand between pavement blocks again and filled in gaps but still they come up from between

Thanks!

Misspent youth or something!

Yep, just what I'd expect... rain gone, ground dried up, they've either made their way back home or been scoffed by some very very happy birds.

You'll not be missing much by not pupating and hatching a few, they're likely to be some sort of beetle at best and more likely a rather dull moth or fly (more like crane fly than housefly though). Not overly exciting and likely verging on the 'ugh no!' really.

It is disconcerting to think about, but the grass under our feet is teeming with life just under the surface - I watched a video recently of grizzly bears, tearing up a meadow in Canada, to get at the grubs. Grizzlies are big buggers, and digging up little grubs seems a lot of effort... but there are SO many and they are basically little fat and protein bombs, so it is worth the bears time!

And PlanningTowns is bang on as to what your 'unfinished pond' is - that ground, before the houses were built, would have soaked away a lot of water. Now it's covered in houses/drives/roads... it can't and the watter gotta go somewhere!

Cluster fly maggots are known to infest new build sites

I used to live on a new build estate this would happen on my driveway every time it rained still none the wiser either

Sorry forgot to add they would literally wiggle away from straight kettle water and straight bleach. Couldn’t kill them off at all

I had this happen to me a couple of weeks ago and this thread has been enlightening!

It was actually the night before bin day so all the bins were out. I only popped out to add some extra rubbish around 11pm ish, and it was raining heavy with severe wind warning in the coming hours. At first I thought it was lots of those little white slugs then realised it was maggots and they were all over the drive. I actually thought it must have been raining maggots or something as it was so bizarre (to me at the time) how scattered they were. I’m not sure how much further they spread because I ran as fast as I could back into my house in complete terror!!

Fortunately none had made it into the house but there were many on the doorstep so I was worried about what I would find in the morning. So I did a couple of pours of boiling water and splash of bleach and killed those ones off around the step which worked.

Next morning when I checked they had all gone!!! Apart from the dead ones!! But then an hour later the dead ones had gone too. Although I now feel bad I may have poisoned some birds with the bleach. If it happens again I’ll just use boiling water.

if I hadn’t taken the extra rubbish out then I would never have known. It makes me wonder how often it might have happened and I’ve never known. Because it was bin day I assumed that maybe someone’s bin was infested and they had been disturbed when the bins were moved?! Anyway I booked in a monthly wheelie bin wash to make sure it’s not my bins going forward although I’ve never seen it with mine.

but the posts about them being different flies/beetles coming up from wet ground is interesting and sounds more like what happened in my case too.

So we could expect this when heavy rains hit for a while then? Greeeeeeeeeeat. Not something we was told would happen. Bloody hell

We are all doomed I tell you!

Actually a pp mentioned cluster flies. That would make sense if the land was recently farmland. Cluster flies parasitise earthworms and if the land had a big population of worms it's likely to have a lot of the flies too. Cluster flies are harmless, unlikely to be disease vectors but can be a bit of a nuisance if they cluster (hence the name) in lofts and, occasionally, empty rooms to hibernate.

Maggot Mania made me die! 😂😂

Like mumsnet of old.

Where are all you funny buggers usually?

Ugh. Now I’m all paranoid that the disco rice is gonna appear every time we have heavy rain!

My poor dh will go nuts (even more so really I guess!)

Gonna have to build a maggot trench around the house and fill it with salt so the bastard melt upon contact… or maybe fill it with chickens. Don’t know yet

I had a friend post something about China having 20000 ducks ready to deploy when there was a locust plague. Clearly we need to build our arsenal of ducks too!

“Release the quacken”