Yuck, yuck, yuck MAGGOTS

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Help!

We've just started food waste recycling and our outside bin is infested with teeny tiny little maggots.

Please can anybody tell me how to kill/get rid of them?

Thank you!

I wouldn't worry about maggots unless the bin is up next to the house?

Too late! next time keep the lid on. Although there may have been eggs or baby maggots on what you put in. [sicky emoticon]

Oh no! It is next to the house. Have found one upstairs in the bathroom sink today and the other day found one just inside the front door.

Do I just move it further away from the house?

There have been loads of flies around the indoor bin this week oldenough, so I think it was in between eating and putting out that the problem occurred.

We have this, DH sprayed flyspray into the bin the other day and that killed what had been about, but a couple of days later he said that one of the binbags was actually 'moving' inside the wheely bin. Nasty!

[boaks unhelpfully all over thread]

You can't do much apart from fly spray until the bin is empty. I normally pressure wash our bin out in the summer. Or stick a few buckets full hot water and bleach and swish it around.....maggots don't like that.

Flies seem to get in even if you wrap stuff and keep the lid closed.

Sorry thought you ment ordinary bin!

Okay, DH went with boiling water and then emptied it down the drain. He tells me there's nothing left in there now.

Phew!

There was a minor communications breakdown as DH was expecting it to be heaving with about 100 fishing bait size maggots, whereas these were tiny ones. Hence he initially came back and told me there was nothing in the bin. Apparently he had not been looking forward to the job at all, and couldn't understand why I was relatively sanguine about the whole thing.

Thanks everybody for your help. And CerealOffender for making me smile.

Maggots have revently appeared in our 'tin/plastic/glass' we have been putting the same stuff in this bin for years why have they just appeared? we have sprayed them with neat bleach, cleaned the bins out with boiling water and bleach but they keep coming back why? - help shock