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Post by Mari on Aug 17, 2024 5:34:46 GMT
Like many households our bins are filled with maggots at the moment (not so many wasps this year, but way too many flies and mosquitoes). Yesterday evening Peter came in the backdoor only to discover an attack on our house by all those maggots from the bins! :eek!:
We spent an hour battling them with hot water, salt and vinegar and we mostly won, but I wonder what on earth caused all of them to suddenly leave the bins and make a run for our house. They were literally all over the ground and walls. So disgusting.
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Post by JoeP on Aug 17, 2024 6:33:39 GMT
Ugh.
I don't think we have any maggots (hope I'm not speaking too soon...) but lots of fruit flies around the biowaste bins.
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Post by Mari on Aug 17, 2024 7:22:17 GMT
Fruit flies I've got ways to deal with so they are annoying but solved within a day or two. Maggots was new for us, especially their determination to attack the house.
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Post by tangent on Aug 17, 2024 9:37:28 GMT
We had a plague of slugs in the garden few years ago but that cleared up within a couple of years. And more recently, we were dogged with fruit flies but they too have virtually gone. It's was a real nuisance at the time and we still have the fruit fly nets to cover the fruit but we aren't bothered by them now.
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Post by Kye on Aug 17, 2024 10:27:11 GMT
Maggots... mega yuck!
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Post by JoeP on Aug 17, 2024 12:52:43 GMT
I can tell something more horrifying than maggots escaping from your dustbins, and that's maggots dropping from the ceiling.
Some readers may want to skip this.
In South Africa we had a flat roof with recessed low-voltage lights in the ceiling under it. Maggots started dropping out of the light fittings in one area, onto the carpet. We already suspected what it was, because there had been a disgusting smell slowly growing; the maggots gave us a clue where it was coming from and (with rubber gloves) we (specifically, I) inspected ... there was a dead rat in the ceiling space. Becoming bloated.
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Post by Kye on Aug 17, 2024 22:08:13 GMT
Ew ew ew ew ew
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Post by Moose on Aug 17, 2024 22:20:01 GMT
Many many Ews.
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Post by Mari on Aug 18, 2024 5:56:09 GMT
Yuck. We had a dead bird in our bin a couple of weeks ago and the accompanying maggots, but no attack on our house. Don't know what triggered them this time.
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Post by kingedmund on Aug 19, 2024 3:07:13 GMT
Oh my yuck! We are way too dry here should be worrying about maggots although we do have a mosquito problem but never slugs or maggots, at least not like that.
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Post by Elis on Aug 27, 2024 6:51:53 GMT
The bins on our roof terrace are full of maggots too. So far, they've never attacked the house, though. We love on the second floor, so I'd be surprised if they made it up there. But I do hate maggots anywhere. Sometimes our little guy wants to help with the bins and those are the times I almost yell at him to stay away because they're so disgusting.
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Post by tangent on Aug 27, 2024 9:31:37 GMT
Your bins are on the roof top so you have to go up there with food waste? And someone has to go up there to collect the bins every week Crumbs  |
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Post by Elis on Aug 27, 2024 15:44:11 GMT
Not quite on the roof top. There is one part of the house which is lower, on top of that there is a roof terrace where the bins are. But they do need to be taken downstairs to be emptied.
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Post by tangent on Aug 27, 2024 18:13:30 GMT
Not quite on the roof top. There is one part of the house which is lower, on top of that there is a roof terrace where the bins are. But they do need to be taken downstairs to be emptied. That must be quite a job if they are full and heavy. |
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Post by JoeP on Aug 28, 2024 6:47:58 GMT
It does sound a bit awkward.
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