HELP! Maggots in my wheelie bin!

[AlkylD]

I woke up this morning and took some rubbish out and I was greeted by thousands upon thousands of maggots

I spent an hour this morning killing them off with salt and boiling water but they keep coming up from the bottom of the bin (rubbish currently in). My bin doesn't get emptied until Wednesday and I do already get it cleaned by a professional.

What can I do?!?!?!

[PetiteRaleuse]

Wait until it has been collected on Wednesday and clean it then. They're only baby flies.

[WowserBowser]

This happened to us. Ugh! They disappeared when the rubbish was collected!

[educationrocks1]

Vile creatures!Spalsh bleach all over and inside the bin (make sure you're wearing something you don't mind getting bleach stains on!). That'll keep them off for a while, then top up until bin is emptied. I know it sounds gross, but it works, keeps the flies away too.

[evertonmint]

Chuck boiling water in once a day then clean when emptied. It's grim (I had a few bad incidents last summer due to heat) and the smell is hideous, but nothing you can do until the bin is emptied - when I'd use lots of boiling water and bleach.

[AlkylD]

I've put bleach and boiling water in but the nasty disgusting things are riddled all over the top again within half an hour. Vile vile vile!

[PigeonPie]

I wouldn't panic to be honest. They're in the wheelie bin, not in the house. There is a lid, they will only writhe about until they turn into flies. The bin men are, frankly, used to it, because that is what happens when flies lay eggs in rubbish.

Don't waste time doing anything unless they're likely to escape!

[AlkylD]

They are escaping PigeonPie - they can crawl out of the bin lid and they started crawling up the side of the house so I moved my bin away from the wall.

Damn things make me itch all over

[TheTerribleBaroness]

We always have maggots in our green wheelie bin in the summer. Just keep the lid closed. It's what happens when you live somewhere warm.

[PigeonPie]

I'd move it well away from the house and let the birds have a field day!

[TheTerribleBaroness]

Have you got meat in there? That might be the smell. Our green bin is for compost and doesn't smell particularly. Meat or fish goes extremely putrid so I wrap it carefully.

[TheTerribleBaroness]

Okay. I'd be less impressed by them climbing up my wall. Yuk.

[AlkylD]

Err there is some leftover tuna pasta bake but I'm not fishing that out of a bin bag! No meat that I know of either!

I guess it's only three days... I'll just keep boiling them.

[educationrocks1]

What i don't understand is how do flies get to lay eggs in rubbish bags that are tied? how is it that if you have leave food in an airtight container it decays, of course, but then develop maggots ?
A colleague once went to a cafe for a fry up, shook a bottle of ketchup over his chips and got a flood of tiny thread like maggots from the bottle how did flies get into the ketchup container to lay the eggs in the first place?

[AlkylD]

I have no idea educationrocks1 but I think they are vile and disgusting vermin. People say just to leave them to help the natural decay of the food in the bin - No way!

[educationrocks1]

By the way, I usually use 'neat' bleach, no water, it gets rid within minutes and the party calms down for a couple of days