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Maggots!! ??

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Shinamae Mon 22-Aug-22 17:29:03

Have never had maggots before but in the last few days there are maggots in my black bin and in my food recycling bin, food recycling bin is kept outside but it was crawling with maggots the other day so I washed it out bleached it et cetera I’m not using it now. The black bin,every day I go out and there are maggots around the rim I’ve got spray bleach and I sprayed them and they’re still wiggling about. I keep the bin as clean as possible but this is really disgusting. Just wondered if any other people are experiencing this . I did look for this on previous threads and the latest one was 2018 so I was recommended to start another one so here it is. The black bin now has had a really good spray with bleach but I bet you when I go out tomorrow morning there will be more maggots.Sorry if you’re eating your tea !

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biglouis Fri 26-Aug-22 16:29:50

The cold weather will kill them off come winter so why sweat the small stuff?

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FannyCornforth Fri 26-Aug-22 17:04:12

biglouis

The cold weather will kill them off come winter so why sweat the small stuff?

Are you joking biglouis?!
So you have a bin full of blue bottles and maggots until January? (It never gets cold until at least then)

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MaizieD Fri 26-Aug-22 20:02:33

FannyCornforth

biglouis

The cold weather will kill them off come winter so why sweat the small stuff?

Are you joking biglouis?!
So you have a bin full of blue bottles and maggots until January? (It never gets cold until at least then)

Don't put things in the bin that will attract the flies in the first place. It seems a bit obvious, really...

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Callistemon21 Fri 26-Aug-22 20:21:12

Just re-watching a lovely programme called 'Bears about the House' with Giles Clark.

He's wandering around a market in Laos and the food for sale includes, amongst other delicacies like rats, wasp maggots.

I understand that we will be encouraged to add such foods, including insects, to our diets if food shortages become the norm.

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biglouis Sun 28-Aug-22 22:19:55

I dont put anything in the bin which will attract maggots or go looking to see whether there are any there.

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BlueSapphire Tue 30-Aug-22 09:47:52

I know I'm a bit late to this thread, but I use something called Bin Buddy to sprinkle in my bin, especially the food waste bin. Keeps the maggots away. I think I got it from Homebase.

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