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BLURGGHHH - Maggot's outside my door!!! Help!!!

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tigertum · 18/08/2006 23:49

Just taken the rubbish out and OMG there are about a million maggots outside my door. I was nearly sick! What are they doing there? How can I get rid of them??? I just poored loads of hot, soapy water on them and tried to sweep them onto the lawn but they are everywhere - climbing up my pots and everthing. The bin is a few meters away and thats bloody covered with them too. All wriggling around.

Don't have any bleach and the most chemically thing I have (being a hippy Ecover user) is bloody windowlene.

I'm so yucked out and I can't be doing eith this at 10 to bloody midnight.

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mytwopenceworth · 18/08/2006 23:53

dustpan and brush, sweep them all up and put them in a bin liner, tie it tight and put it in the bin.
or you'll have them there for weeks until they turn into luvverly flies!!

tortoise · 18/08/2006 23:54

Run round and stamp on them all!!
Sorry not much help but it would freak me out too.

myturn · 18/08/2006 23:54

Try lots of boiling water. Eurgh.

themoon66 · 18/08/2006 23:57

That is well scary. How come they are outside your door?? Have you got food out there? I mean like for the bird table or summat?

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tigertum · 19/08/2006 00:02

mytwopenceworth , I think I'm too much of a jessy to get that close to them. Will they really be there for weeks???

There's no food out there. The bin is a bit minging because we have bi-weekly bin collections. But why would they congretgate around my door.

Going to try thr boiling water now and if that fails, I suppose I'll have to sweep them up

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themoon66 · 19/08/2006 00:05

Can you do something drastic? I mean like a hot air stripper or summat? Drastic measures me dear.

themoon66 · 19/08/2006 00:05

I take it you have no bleach?

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tigertum · 19/08/2006 00:06

I've got an old hoover in the shed that got a load of plaster dust in it and is now too noisy. Do you think I could use that to hoover them up and then bin the hoover as its waiting for the scrap heap anyway?

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tigertum · 19/08/2006 00:07

No, like I said I'm an ecover/detol wipe person.

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themoon66 · 19/08/2006 00:07

does the hoover have a bag?

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tigertum · 19/08/2006 00:11

no, its a self emptying one

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cheeryface · 19/08/2006 00:13

it's funny but my brother just phoned earlier saying the same thing. i suggested he put bleach on them.he had already tried boiling water. yuk!

mytwopenceworth · 19/08/2006 00:13

yes. unless you get rid, they will be there til they turn into flies and, well, fly away!!

maggots are just prepubescent flies. there almost certainly is a food source otherwise the flies wouldn't have laid their eggs and you wouldn't have maggots.

themoon66 · 19/08/2006 00:17

that's why i asked if food was out there. I don' understand why maggots are there. Dont do the hoover thing if you cant remove the bag.

SparklyGothKat · 19/08/2006 00:26

Every week in the heat I have had maggots, makes me gag every time I have pull the bins forward....... hate them too

themoon66 · 19/08/2006 00:31

there was an item on Look North News last night. People rioting almost coz council decided to only collect rubbish once a fortnight. They were blocking the streets to stop the bin vans leaving while they throw all their extra bags into the vans.

I would be tempted to withold my council tax if they cut our service so badly.

LIZS · 19/08/2006 07:04

We had this proboem last weekend and dg used the remains of biodegradable drain cleaner to wash them away with hot water. Still got some flies though but not in he bin and outside kitchen door.

mell2 · 19/08/2006 07:46

oh this sounds awful. I think a lot of people are having problems with maggots because of bi-weekly collections and the heat. My council have just put a letter through saying there will be weekly collections until 30 sept.

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tigertum · 20/08/2006 22:40

On Friday night we decided that they must be coming from the bin and on Monday (when the bin finally gets done) we're going to fill it up with hot water and some chemicals put extra bags around our rubbish in future. I hated leaving them there, but even after 20 frantic minutes with hot water, soap and a broom, the all came wiggiling back again. I tearfully went off to bed and the next day they had gone. Where? How? I have no idea and frankly I dont want to think about it. Infact the only thing that seemed to disperse them was when DP left a torch near them. Maybe I should put lights on my weelie bin.

We've been away for the weekend and have just checked now and there is a small amount of them back outside my door. Allot less, but they are still there

Can anyone recommend a good chemical to rid me of these horrid creatures and put flys off in the future? Has anyone got a maggot free bin. What do you do/use?

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thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 20/08/2006 22:50

tigertum - we had this last summer - our bin is in the garage and the garage floor is actually a sort of beigey maggot colour so when dh called me to come and have a look at first I didn't know what I was meant to be looking at - but then I saw that the whole floor was wiggling [sick emoticom]. dh sprayed them with fly killer in industrial quantities. but he reckons windolene might well do the trick...I'm feeling all twitchy and crawley just thinking about it.

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 20/08/2006 22:55

if you removed anything that they might have been eating then they most likely died and got eaten by birds.

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tigertum · 20/08/2006 23:36

Glad to know it's not just me, thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat, although I wouldn't wish a plague of maggots like this on anyone.

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southeastastra · 20/08/2006 23:39

get a grip just pour hot water on them

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tigertum · 21/08/2006 00:09

I did that (allot of very hot water) and it didn't work.

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jasper · 21/08/2006 00:57

completely shocked you are all thinking up ways to kill God's creatures just because they are ugly.

You would not be talking about pouring boiling water on a plague of cute furry baby bunnies.

You should be ashamed of yourselves.