http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ Helping you get rid of maggots en-US Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:55:23 +0000 bbpress 1.0.2 q http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/search.php http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/guinea-pig-cage-full-of-maggots-help#post-71 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:25:23 +0000 SavatheWolf 71@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>Ok, so I noticed there were maggots in the guinea pig cage, and I thought 'Ok, no big deal, it won't happen again, we've just been sooo busy, but next time we'll clean it sooner' So I clean it out and take the garbage upstairs, except that it thunderstorming outside, and lightning is almost touching the trees. So I set it in the garage. Big mistake. The maggots ate their way out. So I spent three hours cleaning up maggots. But the flies are back as soon as I cleaned out the cage. So I need help. What do I do that won't hurt my piggy but will kill those maggots? </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/little-guys-grossing-me-out#post-69 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:21:34 +0000 Carrie 69@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>Thank you so much for creating this site! I came home this morning from working a night shift to find several little white worms in my dog's water bowl and one lonely guy wiggling around in an empty dog food bowl. Huh, gross. I noticed one dog snacking on something on the carpet, another worm (!) and called the vet in a panic. I picked several squirming guys up with a spoon put them in a ziplock bag and took them to the vet's office. The vet said they were maggots and 'big ones'. Another huh and feeling totally grossed out. I went home and noticed more on the kitchen floor. Grabbed them up with a bleach wipe and squished them. Then I did a search through my house and found more! On the linoleum in the kitchen, wood floor in the dining room and on the carpeted areas around the kitchen. Found a bunch near the sliding glass door and thought they might be attracted to light, but then found some scrunched in near the baseboards. Killed all that I could before going to bed. (Too tired to inspect my bed I slept on my dark chocolate colored couch.) I woke to do another search and found more! Then I figured I can't be the only person in the world to have had this happen to, so I Googled it and your site was the first to come up! Yeah, I'm not alone! but still have a serious situation. Now I'm off to Wally world to pick up some Raid to spray on the baseboards and floors. Then I'll vacuum, do a thorough cleaning of the house and hope for the best. I'd really like to do a Raid bomb but not at 10pm. Hopefully this works other wise I'll have to bomb the house. I wish I knew where they were coming from, but from what I read on another site it is common during the summer for flies to lay their eggs in the carpet and presto you've got maggots. </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/best-way-to-kill-tens-of-thousands#post-64 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:41:58 +0000 CoryT 64@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>Unfortunately maggots aren't my only problem, i have a few raccoons who have figured out that my garbage, is their favorite garbage. The pudgy pests have figured out that they can easily life the lids of my bins. They also seem to have realized that their teeth are nice and sharp so if they can't lift em, they chew at them until they can.</p> <p>Of course this means that by the time morning comes my garbage has been torn apart and there are literally tens of thousands of maggots, in fact this morning I picked up the lid saw how many were on it dropped it and it was like a tidal wave of maggots floating threw the air.</p> <p>I was just wondering what everyone's opinion on the best way to get rid of a lot of maggots at one time is. </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/not-maggots-bluebottles#post-62 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:29:27 +0000 Minx 62@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>We found maggots about 10 days ago that must have started in our bin in the utility room. We threw the contents away (obviously!) and got rid of all the maggots. Haven't seen a single once since then. Now, every day, we have a crop of small bluebottles. I am using Raid directly on them when I find them, and many of them are obviously dying even before I notice them, probably because there is so much Raid on all our surfaces. But just this morning I have collected and disposed of 15 bluebottles. We have taken the utility apart, moved the washing machine/dryer, checked cupboards, washed floors. How long do maggots take to become flies? What more can I do. </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/help#post-60 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:35:15 +0000 Ray Ray 60@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>I have two small children so the more I read and learn about the more freaked out I get. I can't tell where these things are coming from! I found one in one spot, then a few in another room then a bit more elsewhere and more and more but I can't find where they are coming from exactly! I'm trying watching them to see where they are coming from. I've been killing them, but now every time I turn around I see more in a different direction. Help!! </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/how-to-deal-with-post-maggot-trauma#post-56 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:34:24 +0000 ratwoman 56@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>Hi all,</p> <p>I'm Dawn from England. And I did something very, very lazy and stupid last week. I left a bowl of uneaten dog food out in my flat for days, and it was hot, and I noticed a strange smell..... eventually I guessed it might be the dog food so I picked up the bowl to smell it and there, literally *inches* from my eyes was a mass of maggots &lt;shudder&gt;........</p> <p>Now for 38 of my 38 years I have been petrified, appalled and disgusted by these creatures in equal measures. So you can guess how horrifed I was. I threw the bowl down - yes, another 'clever' thing to do, with the consequence they splattered all over my carpet.</p> <p>After having hysterics down the phone to my mom I decided to kill them with boiling water. This did the trick immediately thank God. I then could not bear to get near their corpses so I hoovered them up, emptied the hoover bag, and have spent most of today disinfecting everywhere I think they might have touched.</p> <p>My problem is - I can't stop thinking they're still hanging round in some nook or cranny. I feel like my entire flat is now contaminated. I literally want to move out, leave all of my possessions and start fresh somewhere these things have never been. I'm terrified to touch anything and I can't eat inside my flat as I'm so repulsed by the whole episode.</p> <p>Ok so I know I sound like a psycho and i know it was all my fault, but has anyone got any advice as to how I can start to live my life again?!!!! If the odd one is still around in my flat how long will it stay in its horrible maggoty stage before it becomes a fly? And will there be maggot eggs in my carpet that could still hatch? Oh man...............</p> <p>Many thanks indeed,</p> <p>Dawn </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/arrrrrrrrgggghhhhhhhh#post-53 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:13:20 +0000 lipgloss 53@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>I've just been out to my wheelie bin and as I've lifted the lid a great mass of maggots have dropped into the bin off the inside if the lid. The big ones are crawling out and dropping off the edge to the ground and there seems to be millions of them of all sizes actually in the bin. There are also castors all around the bin on the ground. The smell is actually rancid. Thank god for this website as I'm going to try and find one of those foggers for flies and drop it into the bin. Let's see how they like that!! I've also emptied half a can of Raid into the bin, but I'm yet to go and look at what effect thats had.</p> <p>I'll let you know how I get on </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/please-help#post-52 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:06:23 +0000 viking772003 52@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>I recently left my basement window open, and when I went down there the following day I noticed a bird in my basement had gotten in through the window. I am really afraid of any living creature that isn't human or a cat. So I closed my basement door until I could find someone to help me get the bird out. The next day I got help but we did not see/hear the bird anymore so I assumed it must have found it's way out. 2 days later I went down to wash clothes and smelled an awful smell. I figured it had to be the bird dead somewhere, which it was. When I found it it was crawling with FAT maggots. I got help disposing of it and the maggots, then threw anything that was near it in the trash. I then washed that area of the floor with bleach. My question is, can/will the maggots wander away from the dead bird? Or do they stay near it? Do they lay eggs? If so how can I get rid of all the eggs? By disposing of the bird and every visible maggot, am I in the clear? If I bleach everything in the basement, will I be rid of them? Someone please help me I am a prisoner in my own home afraid to enter my basement. I can not afford to hire an exterminator. Thank you very much. </p> 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/will-they-come-back#post-46 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:23:32 +0000 Johanne 46@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>2 days ago i went to put a sealed bag (always sealed) in the green plastic city bin. Couldn't believe there were 1000 of these nasty maggots crawling everywhere in there.<br /> I believe a fly was on my dog's poop when i picked it up and sealed it in a plastic bag a few days before. I put the bin outside until collection the next day. There didn't seem to be any outside the bin or on the garage floor so I thought i had a close call. After the truck emptied the bin I immediately cleaned it out with boiling water and bleach which didn't seem to faze them. I emptied the bin in the street and hosed the driveway and further down the street and watched a robin come and feed on them. I went to the garage later that day to check and saw a lot of them still crawling back from the driveway and some on the garage floor I looked under a carpet and there were some there too which i squished with my shoe. There are still a few today (squished those too). I'm sure there must be alot more hiding in damp dark places. What do I do ? Wait til they turn into flies and hope they will fly away (i'll make sure not to leave any food or garbage). What are the chances of the cycle happening again? Please help. I'm obsessing over this. </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/the-sun#post-44 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:33:43 +0000 dcq0517 44@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>i get maggots in my trash often - i clean up doggie waste from yard and put in trash - it's in tied up plastic bags, but the little buggers still get all over the trash can. i've tried many things, nothing seemed to work, except boiling water. lately i've just been rinsing them out at the curb - not killing them, but sending them off on a journey in another place. this week, i didn't have time to rinse the can, so i just opened it to air out. later, the maggots that were hit by the sun were dead! shriveled up and dead!! that was yesterday. today, i positioned the can so the sun would hit the ones that were still kicking. and, sure enough, they shriveled up and died, too! i know this won't work for an infestation in the house, or shadey outside area, but for those of us with trash cans full of maggots, i think the sun is our best defense! </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/sudden-maggot-infestation#post-40 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:15:13 +0000 aaron.martinez 40@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>MY FIANCE AND I ARE CLEAN FREAKS, SO IT CAME AS A HUGE SURPRISE THAT I WOKE UP THIS MORNING TO FIND THE ALL THE FLOORS IN THE HOUSE COVERED IN MAGGOTS.I CANT FIND WHERE THEY ARE COMMING FROM.THERE IS NOTHING DEAD AROUND AND I CANT BELIEVE THAT THAT MANY MAGGOTS COULD APPEAR SO SUDDENLY. I THOUGHT THE HOUSE WOULD HAVE TO BE COVERED IN FLIES TO PRODUCE AS MANY AS WERE ON THE FLOOR. I HAVE NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM AND IM REALLY FREAKED OUT THAT THERE ARE SO MANY, WHEN THERE WAS NOT EVEN ONE THE NIGHT BEFORE. WHAT IS GOING ON?I BOMBED THE HOUSE WITH POISON.IT KILLED ALL SORTS OF BUGS I DIDNT KNOW I HAD, BUT THE MAGGOTS ARE STILL COMMING OUT. I USED AN INDUSTRIAL POISON, THAT I SPRAYED DIRECTLY ON THE MAGGOTS AND IT DIDNT EVEN STOP THEM FROM MOVING.I SPRAYED THE SAME STUFF ON A ROACH AND IT DIED IN LESS THAN A MINUTE.I TORE THE HOUSE APART LOOKING FOR THE SOURCE, WITH NO LUCK.I DONT WANT TO DEAL WITH THIS ON A REGULAR BASIS. I NEED A FOOL PROOF SOLUTION ASAP. ANY IDEAS?I DIDNT EVEN THINK THIS KIND OF INFESTATION WAS POSSIBLE SO QUICKLY.SOME ONE PLEASE HELP! </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/maggots-maggots-everywhere-so-lets-all-have-a-drink#post-30 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:19:50 +0000 Comali 30@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>Yesterday morning I woke to find a WHOLE ARMY of maggots crawling on my kitchen floor. EVERY inch of the floor was covered by maggots, they was crawling out the front door. They was crawling from all directions so it was very hard to see where they were coming from. </p> <p>A day from yesterday I did a spring clean in the kitchen (not for the maggots) and they was there the next morning, only a few. So I swept the Kitchen thoroughly but then I woke with the army of maggots. That day I thought it could be the mat we have in the kitchen because it is very revolting but I took it out the day I swept. They starting invading our kitchen ever since we started eating fried rice. We think it may be from the stove, the floor is spotless but they may be falling out from the bottom of the stove. </p> <p>They come out from the cleanest of places which is very puzzling. They are there every morning so far. And they always march out the front door. </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/maggots-on-kitchen-ceiling#post-28 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:52:52 +0000 curl 28@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>I WAKE UP EVERY MORNING WITH MAGGOTS ON MY KITCHEN CEILING AND I DONT KNOW WH, HOW DO I GET RID OF THEM FOREVER THIS IS DRIVING ME INSANE .WE HAD THE HOUSE SPRAYED A FEW WEEKS AGO AND I SAID TO MY HUSBAND THERE MUST BE SOMETHING DEAD IN THE ROOF BUT WE CANT SMELL ANYTHING SO PLEASE HELP ME GET RID OF MAGGOTS FOREVER ANY SUGGESTIONS </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/how-do-i-find-out-where-they-are-comming-from#post-23 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:05:46 +0000 swopermans 23@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>I have 4 small children and have recently been finding maggots in my kitchen. I have no clue hwere they are coming from. They atarted out on my cieling. I had my husband serch my attic for something dead but he found nothing. Today I found a ton of them on the floor. i dont know where they are coming from. How can I tell. I cleaned out all of my cupboards looking for something dead or rotting but I cannot find aanything. Please help!!!!!! </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/wall-racers#post-20 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:43:19 +0000 Niamhina 20@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>So here I am again. I was in the bathroom when my husband looked down and freaked! There on the lip of the bathtub..crawling...NO WRIGGLING it's way towards the wall was a disgusting little thing that we call a Maggot. There was only one so I knew that it came from somewhere else in the house. I know that my dog Bandit brought it into the bathroom to show me that there ws a bug in the house. Recently I've taught him to "Roach" as I call it, since this place has horrible bug problem. He'll hunt the bug or "Roach" down and kill it. Who needs a cat when I have my little Banda-Panda! lol...<br /> Anywhoo, so I go running into the kitchen and look around. Yup..there they all are...again. Of course at this point I'm ready to throw my cookies all over the place. And seeing since I've eaten every color of the rainbow today, it would of been a flurry of interesting colors. Ok, back to the story. So i had to leave and help a friend out for a while, and my husband was kind enough to take care of the problm this time. He told me that while I was gone, these little buggers where crawling up the walls, trying to get away from the bleach he just threw on the floors. GROSS! but at least the bleach killed them all. I'm getting really tired of these rude little guys crashing my house. I'm about to start charging them rent. ^.^ </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/maggots-in-our-bathroom#post-17 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:48:59 +0000 JeLLo2775 17@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>So last night before bed, I went to the bathroom. As I was sitting there, I noticed what I thought was a little worm crawling on the floor. I scanned the floor and saw there was more. I hollered to my spouse 'Uh, dude, we have a problem!!!' He came upstairs to see what I was yelling about, and I carefully made my way out of the bathroom - didn't wanna step on any...yuck!<br /> So, using toilet paper, we picked them up one by one and once we saw we had them all picked up, more appeared. They were falling from the bathroom fan!!<br /> My spouse got a chair, and proceeded to unplug, and pull down the fan. Well, low and behold, there was a dead mouse (though it was a bit bigger then a mouse) lodged in the fan blades!! We finally figured out why the fan wasn't working as well as it was a few days ago!!<br /> He flushed the dead mouse down the toilet and sprayed perioxide over the fan to wipe it down and disinfect it. We put a bucket on the floor, below the fan and covered the bottom with bleach. This morning when we woke, we found 10 dead maggots floating in the bucket and one crawling on the floor.<br /> Tonite my hunny is gonna crawl into the attic to see what else is up there - we're not sure what to expect - how many more maggots can be there if the dead animal is gone??</p> <p>Another thing I should mention is that these were not full grown, white creamy colored maggots. They were very small, and clear.</p> <p>Not sure how we can disinfect the attic now.....</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>Joanne </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/peroxide#post-10 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:12:53 +0000 shotei 10@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>In one of the kill methods 1/2 to 2 cups of peroxide was recomended. I couldn't see what good peroxide would do so I tested it. I dropped a couple maggots in a cup with pure peroxide. After watching them swim around for about 10 minutes I flushed them. Maybe I have mutant maggots but save a little money and forget the peroxide. </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/why-do-i-have-maggots#post-6 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:50:42 +0000 mkingclk 6@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>Ok, so I have recently discovered that I have an infestation of maggots in my carport. I don't know what it is that they are after, or where they're coming from. They are not bunched all together like maggots feeding on something dead. They are just crawling around on the concrete. Not near the trash bin, not near any foul odors, my husband has washed them away with the hose, and poured draino all over the carport. The next day they are back. There seems to be no reason for them. Please help me!! </p> http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/topic/thought-you-should-know#post-4 Sun, 10 May 2009 21:04:54 +0000 thoney 4@http://www.maggots.co.za/forum/ <p>fantastic does not work... either does mango scented carpet crystals. at first i thought it did and created a barrier so they wouldn't get into my room .. you know until my boyfriend could deal with those MAGGOTS.. but it seemed to like it .. so we sucked those maggots up in the vacuum cleaner.. thanks anyways.. :D </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>