http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/forum/reader-stories Helping you get rid of maggots en-US Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:03:25 +0000 bbpress 1.0.2 q http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/search.php http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/my-battle-is-over-and-i-have-answers#post-36 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:06:25 +0000 aceliven 36@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>Well, it happened nearly six hours ago. I went to put my garbage out at the curb and found one of the cans totally covered with 1/4 - 1/2 inch maggots. I am a grown man and little bothers me in the natural world, but I just could not move that can with a moving cloth of slimy, disgusting larvae all over it. My first thought was to put on a thick pair of work gloves... I still couldn't stand it as I lifted the can and numerous maggots began to fall off onto my shoes and the cuffs of my pants. I retreated inside to work out a plan. I decided to fill a scrub bucket full of hot water and soap and pour the contents all over the can. I then returned to my home to wait for them to die/disperse. When I returned to the can I discovered that the two hundred or so that I had washed off with my soapy water were now charging right for my front door. They had squirmed their way across the sidewalk and right up my steps!!! Not only did this not work it drew another hundred or so out of the can to take the originals' place... That's when I realized that I was dealing with something much larger than I had originally anticipated. I then turned to the internet and discovered this excellent site and did some reading. Since it was around 2am at the time I decided to go with the easiest possible solution. I boiled about 20 gallons of water and poured in a gallon of bleach and dumped that all over them then went back inside to let them perish... To my horror and frustration when I returned in another 1/2 hour they were STILL squirming with little difference in their movement... maybe more than before... I returned to this site and did another hour's worth of reading and then jumped in my car and made for walmart like there was no tomorrow... I ended up with a bottle of lice shampoo... 2 cans of carburetor cleaner, and a can of RAID wasp killer... When I returned home it seemed that even more had surfaced from the can... Their front was advancing right up my door! I wasted no time and sprayed them all down with the lice shampoo... after 10 minutes I returned to several dead and most of them moving around sluggishly in the gel... I wasn't taking any chances however and popped open the RAID and gave them all a good dowsing of that which took out at least 1/2 of them... I went through a can of the carb cleaner spot spraying (which seemed to kill them on contact) until there was no more movement... I repeated this on the inside of the can and lid after finally being able to drag it to the curb. To my surprise it appears that most of them had indeed come out upon my initial attacks! The sun has risen and it is now 6am... It's been a long night, and I may have lost the first few battles, but I surely won the war. I've spent the last hour cleaning up the mess of chemicals and corpses in my wake and managed to have it all done before the garbage men come to collect the trash. From this experience I would like to pass on the following information to all those troubled souls that find themselves in a similar situation:</p> <p>1. DO NOT just dump water or bleach on them...even if it's strictly hot water from the tap... This will NOT kill them... It will only make them more aggressive!</p> <p>2. Boiling water is decent to stagger them, and if that's all you have may be effective after many, many gallons...</p> <p>3. The lice shampoo stopped them in their tracks and stunned them beyond recovery, but didn't kill them on contact... and was the most expensive item in my arsenal. ($8)</p> <p>4. RAID wasp killer has GREAT range so you don't have to get too close and worry about any flying off and on to your person, and seemed to do a decent job of killing them. ($4)</p> <p>5. The carburetor cleaner lacked the range of the RAID, however it was instantaneously deadly to the maggots... It was also the cheapest! ($1.50)</p> <p>Good luck... and remember... prevention is much easier and less expensive than dealing with the problem when it comes home to roost! </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/killed-a-pot-full-of-maggots-d#post-32 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:28:09 +0000 PK 32@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>Last week was nice and cold and rainy, perfect weather for soup so a made a big pot of pork soup. Unfortunately it warmed up a few days later and the flies came back. I went away for the weekend and came back to a pot of rotten fermenting soup since my housemate was too lazy to empty and clean the pot and also didn't close the lid properly so sure enough, there were young maggots crawling about. Thankfully they didn't get out of the pot. </p> <p>So today I'm cleaning the pot. I would have thrown it away if it wasn't one of my expensive pots and worth the trouble and effort. Now, I absolutely hate maggots, it's one of my phobias so this is a big deal for me, I'm quite annoyed at my housemate since she wouldn't clean it and I feel that it was her job since I not only made the food but bought all the ingredients and she ate more than her share. But she won't and I want to keep the pot so I'm going to have to do it :(</p> <p>So this is how I went about it. Enclosed shoes and rubber gloves on, kettle of boiling water ready, I took the pot into the bathroom and poured hot water all over the lid until it was too hot to touch (so the maggots clinging onto the lid dropped back in) and all around the sides (so the ones crawling around the sides also dropped in) then placed the pot back on the stove until I could hear the liquid boiling for a good 10-15mins so all the little squirming buggers were good and dead (or so I think, I haven't checked). I have more freshly boiled water ready and will pour more over the lid and around the sides before I start pouring the rotten muck, little by little, into the toilet and flush it away. Will keep some extra hot water to rinse whatever is left clinging inside the pot.</p> <p>Hopefully it all works out. At least they should be dead so I don't have to deal with live squirming things. A dead maggot will always be better than a live one to me! </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/maggotsmaggots-everywhere#post-12 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:10:08 +0000 Niamhina 12@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>I can't believe this! How disgusting! I live on a military base in GA and this is the third time I've had to battle maggots here in my house. It's not ehough that I have numerous things to stress about and worry myself sick over...but now this!? AGAIN!? So I wake up this morning oblivious to the maddness unfolding within the walls of my home. I'm very weak and sickly and my muscles burn all the time like I just got done running a darn marathon...so just the smallest tasks leave me in pain and exhausted.</p> <p>Anywhoo,<br /> As I woke, my dog (Bandit) was eating something. *Sigh* What could he be eating now? I looked at him and told him to "Spit it out" and when he did, it looked familliar. A MAGGOT!? CRAP! I carefully and reluctently made my way over the the light switch and flicked it on. And there, on the floor, was a sea of maggots! I almost threw up and started to cry.</p> <p>They were in the kitchen, the living room, in the dining room... even now...as I write this I have to step away from the keyboard to cautiously pick them up. I've talked to the front office here on base...and recieved NO HELP. These ppl won't even help me change a light bulb. I called the health department because aside from the maggots, roaches and most recently TOADS (Yes yes.. I said toads.) I also have a problem with black mold here in my gear room. But since it's on base, they can't help.</p> <p>I'm so fed up and disgusted with this place. They charge an absurd amount of monies for a peice of crud they call a "House" and you never recieve any maitnence help. Now I have to worry about this!? UGH! I've been picking them up and putting them in a jar with a lid and put some water in it to attempt to dround them. It seems to be working so far...but I keep finding more. I have no idea where they are comming from. The last time I found them in my house, they were comming inside from the backyard from the trash cans. The tops of the cans have hols chewed in them from squirrels and possibly coons, and the back yard was Overrun with the nasty little creatures of disgustingness...</p> <p>I wish I didn't have to deal with this. I'm so tired and I'm hurting. All I wanna do is relax...But I'm freaked out and it feels like they're crawling all over me. GROSS! </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/i-found-maggots-in-my-trash-today#post-8 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:54:33 +0000 kim johnson 8@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>Yes, since the 4th of July fell on a Saturday, my trash pickup day, I have had to wait since last Wednesday, my last trash pickup day, a whole week, for my trash to be picked up! And you know I have bbq meat and watermelon rind in that trash bin, so what else is in there? FLIES! = MAGGOTS! What I want to know is if the garbage collection service still obligated to pick up my trash? </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/um-maggots#post-2 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:40:20 +0000 Donna 2@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>I have a toddler and we often throw food away as she wont eat it..... this has led to the maggot problem we now have. After my husband and I argued about the cause of this (I blamed the nappies - he blamed the flies) I finally decided to take matters into my own hands and found this website - which admittedly made me laugh out loud, but BOY am I glad I found it.....<br /> Who would have thought of using hairspray to kill maggots, or brake cleaner or drain cleaner.<br /> I am yet to arm myself with these weapons and head home tonight to WIN THIS BATTLE<br /> THANKS !!!!! </p>