Comments on: Maggots in my Wheelie Bin

By: shannon

shannon — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:10:16 +0000

i read an interesting post on another forum. ring pest control and tell them the situation and they will get onto the council about the fortnightly emptying of the weelie bins. thats just not acceptable. im in western australia and have never had this problem because our bins get emptied every week. untill today because i forgot to put it out last week. its amazing how much 1 week does. i rang the council up and they are sending a bin truck to empty my bin for a fee of $40. and have gone out to my patio and have been burning them deotorant and a lighter. they die from that. hope this has helped…

By: tracy jenkins

tracy jenkins — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:14:34 +0000

i have the same problem fortnightly refuse collections have led to maggots crawling every where over my bins and path.
i hate them they make my skin crawl and i now dread taking my dogs out in the evening my husband works nights so have no choice but to go out i have recenly started climbing over fence to next door to get out the gate tried using bleach but they still keep coming so scared that they will come in the house

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:24:34 +0000

I completely understand your repulsion, however the Police would not appreciate you wasting their time with a pest control issue.

Do you have a hosepipe? Hose them away if you cannot bear to sweep them up into a bag. If we get them during the day DH is quite good in getting rid of properly but at night when it is really dark he just gets out the hose and showers them away and even if he just leaves them they are usually gone by the morning.

I don’t know how to kill maggots but hopefully this will help you!

By: Jo Jo

Jo Jo — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:58:16 +0000

OMG!!! Can’t beleive I found this site and that I’m not the only one. I’ve just been outside the back of my house to have a cig when I saw tons of maggots heading towards the door, I mean tons. I’m so freaked out! I have had them in the wheelie bin recently but it is nowhere near the door! I can’t kill them coz I’m a wimp, I can’t killa anything but am so scared they’re gonna get in the house. I’ve just lost my beautiful rottweiler too, she would have eaten them for me. Now I feel even more sad than I was! Why are they there it hasn’t even been warm today. I need to make my baby a bottle for later and daren’t go in the kitchen.I don’t know what to do. Do you think the police would help? I just know I am not going to be able to sleep!!!!!

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:29:59 +0000

Found a black bag in the garden that had been overlooked for ever so when I put it in the wheelie bin trash today (on day three of a heatwave in the southern hemishere) I was amazed to see thousands of lil white critters jumping ship. I just poured a bottle of meths over them and discharged two raid foggers inside the bin. This only made them more angry and the numbers of escapees increased as they dropped off all sides of the wheelie bin.Not good. Because its maybe oh three hours til collection. Finally I sloshed some good ol petrol from a jerrycan over the lot and threw a lit match. Guess what? I need two new wheelie bins but no more maggots.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:04:39 +0000

Hi, I feel really gross, but we have just found maggots in our laundry and even in our living room. We have just had about 2 weeks worth of rain and everything outside is starting to dry out. Does anyone think that they are coming inside to find moisture? Its getting hot outside and dry. We have cleaned everything in our house and there is nothing to suggest that they are coming from within. it is so gross i feel so dirty.

By: jayne

jayne — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:50:16 +0000

hi, siobhan, i had the very same thing happen last night, went 2 lock up for the night and there were loads and i mean loads of maggots in the porch all over the front yard and all over the wheelie bin! spotted them at about 10pm and it took me and my partner untill 2am 2 get rid of most them, my partner had 2 go out 2 tesco and buy bleach (12 big bottles! lol) while i stayed buy the front door with a vacuum so they couldnt get in! some had gotten into our front room, which is my daughter play room, i was horrified and felt so ill, it was the fact that i didnt want them near my daughters things, i had 2 move everything from that room 2 makesure there were no more! they kept crawing in under the door, i had 2 boil the kettle about 20 times, and used all of the bleach, we have got rid of most, we sealed all the door and windows as they were climbing up outside! i had nightmare last night that they were crawling all over my home and falling all off my bed and walls! i have 2 small children, and we have not gone in the front room all day, im even considering throwing the vacuum away now as i can see maggots indside it, altho they dont seem 2 be moving but still, iv sealed the vacuum up 2 so they cant get out lol, i never thought i would react 2 this in such a way, but i guess its because i have 2 babies and also the fact that maggots are gross! im really disgusted by it all, and its made me feel ill and worried all day in case they come back tonight! our bins are also not collected untill thursday! pain in the arse, but will continue with boiled water and bleach and see what happens! hope you also sort out ur problem 2.

By: Siobhan

Siobhan — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:27:33 +0000

OMG, came home this evening my wheelie bin had moved cause of maggots, my boyfriend is still outside cleaning them up. I’m stressed as bin collection not until Thurs, we have filled the bin with water,bleach and hope they drown. And boiliing water all over the decking they are everywhere….. is there anything else i can do to stop them until Thurs?

A very sick feeling Siobhan

By: amber

amber — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:50:53 +0000

over the last 2 days we have had alot of them in our wheely bin outside. luckly our wheely bin is outside our garden. however there are maggots everywhere. they have spread all the way accross the street. me and my mum traced them all the way accross to the other side. the floor looked like it was moving. what can we go to kill them ?

By: James

James — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:00:06 +0000

I reckon it’s because we know maggots tend to be around rotting flesh, generally old steaks, but thanks to movies, dead people.

And, if you’ve got maggots, it means you’re a dirty, filthy and unhealthy person, even if in reality, you’re not.

But that’s just my thought.