Maggot horror - is it just me?

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I went to take the kitchen bin out earlier and as I tried to double bag it before taking it out the bag broke and I saw a fly come out, then some maggots fell on the floor! shivers
I am so scared of maggots it was my worst nightmare, one even landed on my foot! I was sweating, shaking and hyperventilating, I am honestly traumatised!
I always stay on top of housework and never leave any food out, and this bin is brand new with a tightly shut lid, I just can't believe it!
I feel like I am a disgusting person with an unhygienic house :( has this happened to anyone before?

If there are flies there will be maggots especially in this hot weather. The flies may have laid the eggs on the item before it got to the bin.
We have a separate food waste bin and that can be grim at times. I would avoid throwing food waste in the inside bin if you can.

I hear you, they seem to pop up randomly sometimes! I was staying at an ex bf’s place years ago, clean enough. Woke up on the Saturday morning to maggots on the floor EVERYWHERE!!! Crawling on the tiles in the kitchen, lounge and hallway. I freaked out, couldn’t understand where they’d come from, and so many!! My bf hadn’t taken the rubbish out the night before, but for them to spread everywhere like that... 20 yrs on and it still freaks me out 🤢

I once went to clean out the hoover - the bag was full of rice.

IT WASNT RICE AND IT WAS ALIVE!!!!!!!!!😱😱😱

(I cried like a banshee until DH came and disposed of the whole thing. We bought a new hoover and never mentioned it again)

Not in the inside bin, but the outside one.
A couple of years ago I didn't notice when I opened the lid and ended up with one touching my hand. I'm also terrified of them ( irrational I know, but I can't stand them) I scrubbed my hands bit couldn't stop thinking about it and in a panic used some bleach!
They will honestly lay eggs anywhere. I bought a bran new BBQ, set it up, didn't use it then about a week later I was out in the garden and there was bloody maggots in it.

Yes had them in my wheelie bin the other week, must have been careless.. i cleaned it and have been double wrapping the black bags and spraying with disinfectant and havent had them again.. thank god.. bloody awful

Oh, and again this year, around the end of April I reported a house plant and put the old put out in the garden. I thought I could use it for something out there. A few days later, maggots in the bottom. There was nothing but I little bit of soil and maggots 🤢

I'm amazed we haven't had our annual wheely bin maggot fest yet.

It's revolting. They somehow get up and crawl around the rim. The fact that the bins aren't emptied as often as they used to can't help.

Once a year i look up the number of the local wheely bin cleaner and once a year they're gone after the bins been emptied and i forget all about it again.

Aw, poor maggots, they don’t deserve such a bad press! Would you hate them less if you knew they were used in wound healing, to nibble off necrotic tissue? Think of them as little wriggling surgeons...
Or perhaps I’m not helping.

Omg I have got maggots in my bin for the first time in years. It’s driving me mad, I clean them out and then the fuckers are back. Even the kitchen bin!

I have this problem in my wheelie bin all the time. It gets emptied every two weeks and with the heat you can guarantee I'll have some by the time the bin gets emptied. I have no idea how. I double bag everything. So I end up bleaching and cleaning the bin out every two weeks. I don't know what else I can do but my god it's grim!!

Oh no!!

We have a food waste caddy with biodegradable bags which then go into a larger sealed bin and the bin men collect weekly, so fortunately we haven’t faced that particular horror in a while.

I do remember a few years ago my somewhat scatty father cleaned out his freezer and just chucked everything with freezer burn into a bin bag and put in the dustbin. Flies must’ve got in, which I discovered when I popped round and took out a bin bag - very upsetting to be faced with a wriggling dustbin!!

Jeyes fluid sorted it right out. But it’s always a horrible shock!!

We don't have an outside bin and seem to get blue bottle maggots every summer. It grossed me out. We are very fastidious but it seems to be an annual thing. Makes me want to vomit.

Our wheelie bin is crawling. I've refused to go anywhere near it since Monday.

Just. NO!!!!

Ah they hatch dead fast OP. There's not much you can do about it in the grand scheme.

We get our annual night of the living maggots as well. They crawl out of the bin and we do use the bin cleaners. It doesn't make any difference.

My parents used to make me shell peas as a child - there were always some with maggots in. I screamed with horror each time and they were pretty angry with me.

I still feel the same now, abject horror of maggots. When I was young adults and teenagers who went fishing would buy packets of maggots from the local newsagents and keep them in their mouths to warm them up and make them wiggle before using them.

I've never recovered from the horror of this.

I bought a fly trap to hang outside the kitchen door, its reduced the fly problem inside the house massively but OMG, empyting it is horrendous

My kitchen bin has needed changing every other day due to the smell I think it's the heat.
No maggots tho

My wheely bin
Now that's a different matter, there's always maggots in the bottom.
I disinfectant it every time it is emptied ( round here it is emptied every other week)
In this hot weather I think it need emptying every week 😳

Euw @Snog that's just wrong.

I spent some time this week combing fly eggs off a rabbit. Thankfully none had hatched. I inwardly retched genteelly (I like to think) as the eggs flicked onto my socks and my trousers. I then washed them at 90. They didn't shrink. Hurrah.
If it was possible, I'd have then washed myself at 90.

I obtained anti flystrike spray as soon as I was able (and actually said "GRIM" and "VOM" to the pet shop owner).
No eggs found today, blessed relief.

Oh yes I had similar in my kitchen bin a couple of years ago and it’s still very vivid in my memory. Made me heave 🤢. Still makes me shudder thinking of it. Previously had them in the wheelie bin once too. I was so embarrassed putting it out as they were all over it 🤢🤢 I absolutely hate flies, if one is in the house it better get out quick or it’s dead, and I am an ace swotter now!

Keep bin lid closed

Top tip from Aussie relatives. Put waste food caddy bags in the freezer until bin day. Simples.

We are just not used to this heat are we? But YANBU I hate maggots too.

I had a load of maggots in my wheelie bin recently. Left the lid open and a few magpies got rid of them very quickly!!

Is it possible to put wrapped food waste in the freezer and then transfer it to the bin the evening before emptying? I did this at my last house as we had special food waste bins - not the case at present in the new house.

It's difficult to avoid them completely in the heat no matter how clean you keep the bin but I believe that washing it out with lavender scented cleaning fluid may help as they dislike the smell.

I can remember as a child my dad kept his fishing maggots in our household fridge ( they need to be kept cool).
My mum threatened to divorce him over it so he had to buy a second hand fridge to use in the garage.
I remember my dad taking me fishing a few times as a child and seeing his friends warming up live maggots in their mouths before attaching them to the hook.
I had nightmares for ages.

Absolutely revolting things, I opened the wheelie bin after it had been emptied yesterday and nearly died, ughhh they really make me so ill just thinking about them! This heat doesn't help and the fact the bins aren't emptied for two weeks!