Maggots!! ??

If you pour a mug of Persil powder in the bin you won’t have any maggots .

Put them on your bird table Shinamae, the blue tits will be delighted.

You must have some flies eggs stuck onto the bin somewhere with something they are feeding on. Try spraying the bin with fly killer, but don't breathe it in, really toxic.

I have had a maggot problem because of leftover dog/cat food, flies had laid eggs on the food. I was being lazy and putting the leftovers into the big bag, without wrapping it up separately, and the eggs had a good feed then hatched into maggots and wriggled out of the bag, urgh!

I've started using the very small swing bin liners in the kitchen now, wrap any food remains tightly in a separate bag, and bin it every day. Shouldn't be as bad now, the flies will be dying off soon.

The only thing I can suggest is to keep any scraps of meat or fish, however small, in a bag in the freezer until the night before the bin men come. Bluebottles can apparently smell anything dead (so any meat or fish) from about a mile away.

We only have a small under-the-fridge freezer but I always do this and we’ve never had maggots.

I have had maggots in my food bin due to the flies laying eggs on uneaten cat food in the heat. I drown them out, pour them on the garden for the birds, then fill the bin with water and bleach. I wrap the food waste, but it seems to help them incubate. (right word?).

No thank goodness

Spray your bin every so often with fly spray

That reminds me, I hoovered up a fly yesterday by mistake. Do you think he will die or should I bin the bag?

Put them on your bird table Shinamae, the blue tits will be delighted
I was going to suggest that too.

I didn't know about the Persil, Hiraeth but would it contaminate the food waste because it goes off for recycling?

Thank you…..??

When you say black bin is that for general waste Shinamae?

Perhaps there were bits of meat, fish or vegetable matter stuck to some paper or kitchen roll? Flies can zone in straight away.
The other problem we've had is seagulls who will rip open the bags we put out for collection if there's the slightest smell of anything like that.

Callistemon21

When you say black bin is that for general waste Shinamae?

Perhaps there were bits of meat, fish or vegetable matter stuck to some paper or kitchen roll? Flies can zone in straight away.
The other problem we've had is seagulls who will rip open the bags we put out for collection if there's the slightest smell of anything like that.

Yes general waste. I am really surprised that after spraying them with bleach they are still wriggling around but according to some who have replied I should be using fly spray. I might get some little plastic bags like somebody up thread recommended at least until the weather goes a bit colder. Oh they do make me shudder. ??

I'd probably collect them up for the birds ? ? but I can understand why you don't like them.

Callistemon21

I'd probably collect them up for the birds ? ? but I can understand why you don't like them.

I put mealworms out for the birds they are quite happy with that….?…..there is no way I would be gathering of maggots to put on the bird table ???

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Dried mealworms - the robin loves them!

Callistemon21

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Dried mealworms - the robin loves them!

I put them out the front and the back on the bird tables as well as fat balls but the birds will take the mealworms and leave the good quality seed I put out!… they just love the mealworms

Just checked the bin and they are there again! Liberally sprayed with bleach again, I really don’t understand how they keep coming back when the bin is coated in bleach…?‍♀️?

The eggs must be there already, they're the second stage of the life cycle of a fly.
You might be mistaking the eggs, from which the larvae hatch, for rice grains.

Where Do Maggots Come From?
Maggots come from the eggs of flies, and their lifecycle follows these steps:

Eggs: A female fly will usually lay around 150 eggs at a time. The eggs of flies resemble small grains of rice.
Larvae: Fly larvae refer to maggots, and they resemble small worms.
Pupa: The pupa stage occurs when the skin of maggots turns into a dark, protective shell much like a cocoon. During this phase, the bodies of maggots will transform into a fly. Before entering the pupa stage, maggots will go through a pre-pupa stage in which their bodies begin to form this protective shell.
Fly: Once the fly fully develops inside the protective shell, it will break free.

We had this problem last year. Lots of fly spray sorted it. This year I have just sprayed regularly and have had no problems

Tizliz

We had this problem last year. Lots of fly spray sorted it. This year I have just sprayed regularly and have had no problems

I’m really surprised to hear that fly spray is more effective than bleach but I shall be toddling off to Tesco in a bit to get some…

Go fishing perhaps ? They are really gross, something about them gives me the heaves. A lot of flies here have live maggots coming out of them, they seem to miss the egg stage. Nasty things.

The maggots were in my black bin and not the bio bin .The black bin rubbish gets burnt

Just got my fly spray from Tesco’s £3.10! Liberally sprayed my black bin so hopefully this will get rid of them, the little blighters.. I had stopped using my green food waste bin which is kept outside anyway but I’ve just bought some recyclable small bags to put the food in while in the kitchen and then transfer it to the bin….

We had a maggot infestation in our wheelie bin. Now we use a plastic bin liner, and any meat leftovers are placed inside a sealed plastic bag. It seems to have solved the problem.

We've always found a kettleful of boiling water more effective and less toxic to the environment than flyspray. That and keeping the bin bag tightly closed and the bin lid on against flies.