OK, I tried the keep the keep the trash covered method and they still got into the trash can outside (the one the trashmen pick up). I went out there this mornign to pull it to the curb and almost vomited! How do I keep them out of there?

Maggots will die if you smother them in moth balls. Also after you cleaned them up you can put moth balls into your clean trash bin, better yet put in cedar chips each week.

HELP! A few days ago I was walking thru my kitchen when I found one maggot on my floor. I threw him outside and didnt think anything else of it. Two days later I woke up to a hundred or so on my kitchen floor! We cleaned and there was a spray that killed them but I couldn’t find the flippin source. We finally assumed it must have been the trash can and just cleaned them up. Tonight I just found one crawling accross my living room floor…There is nothing for them to be breeding in! I have moved all my appliances and furniture and cannot find where they are coming from. Please tell me where else to look cuz I am at my wits end…

OH, you are all making me feel SOO much better!!!! I had already used 3 different bug sprays which did eventually work on them, and I’m all shaky which may be from the fumes. But I am realizing that along with the boiling water, alcohol (for me!) is one of the best solutions. They had gotten into an open bag of soil in the garage and were EVERYWHERE. And when I’d clean them up they literally regenerated right before my eyes.

It was really rainy outside and quite humid. I went into my kitchen which is tiled, and a small room which joins to my kitchen which has a nice thick carpet! for those cold nights when I want to go to the fridge. Too my surprise there were hundreds of maggot on my carpet crawling from my back garden door! I pulled out the hoover and started to hoover them up but for every 10 I hoovered up 20 more popped up. It was like a horror movie! I did`nt know what to do, but then as I watched them closer they burrow into the carpet and then disappear! I had to tear up all of my carpet! I went outside to burn it when I saw the most disgusting trail of them leading from my bins, which are covered up! I spent 4 hours of boiling the kettle and bleching them! I believe that it has something to do with the visitor cats that always come into my garden.Don`t think that you have killed them all, they came from somewhere and most likely where ever they cam from has alot more there. Bleech and Hot water is what I recommend, if they get onto your carpet rip it up, it could be a possible breeding ground for them.

Well, I have a lid on my trash can outside. I got home from work this morning and did my usuall routine of cleaning the cat litter box, and cleaning my coati mundi kennels. I double bag my “animal waste” and went to open the lid to throw away the bags of ickydoo and I felt something squish. So, me being me didn’t think anything of it, I’d just go inside and scrub my hands with dish soap, until I opened the trash can, and noticed the inside of my can was not black anymore, but white. With thousands of nasty maggots speed crawling out of the can. I flipped out and hooked up the hose and sprayed them back to the bottom of the can. Now thewy are swimming in about 3 gallons of water and 3 bottles of bleach. Should I just dump some gas in there with a match? I don’t have a stove to boil water

Does anyone know if the maggots are dangerous? I had left a trash bag outside the front door for a couple of days and when I went to take it to the trash can, there were about 50 or so 1-2mm maggots and pupa on the trash bag. I cleaned the floor with bleach in the corridor, had a shower, put my clothes into wash.. Now I’m feeling itchy and it’s probably psychosomatic but I’m still worried. I’m also scared a few have stayed in the corridor and will crawl into the flat or traveled in already in my clothes and in the mop. ´:<

I went outside an our ago and found them crawling out of the bin. Put boiling water over them which seemed to work but looked out ten minutes later and muliplied again. Not going to get any sleep tonight! So much for the benefits of fortnightly recycling!

I went to put the bins out into the wheelie bin and to my shock and horror there were maggots all over the patio, some were crawling out the bins and there were millions crawling out the cracks of the patio, I screamed to my friend, who came running, and we both did not know what to do, so we went to the garage to find anything that we thought would kill these awfull things, we used: boiling water, bleach, fly spray, ant killer, pedge, lamp oil, hairspray my friend wanted us to use carpet glue, but I did not relish the thought of dead maggots glued to my patio,ha ha, they did not seem to die, it felt like I was in a cheap science fiction film from the 50’s. Anyway we went inside to check on the internet ,and it told us that we seemed we were doing the right thing, we left it a while and afer a glass of two of wine we went to look again. When we got out there they seemed a little less active than earlier, but certainly not dead. We thought that they may be suffering a long and painfull death, which upset my friend as she is a vegetarian. After a while we then boiled the kettle and boiled them to death. It was a horrific experience as I am going to bed soon and I know that I will have nightmares about maggots. UGH!!!!!!

We found some last night when my husband was cleaning out the vent under the fridge. He swept out some dust bunnies and there were about 20 or more maggots strewn across the floor.
We spent the entire night pulling out every appliance, checking every food box and spraying down the entire kitchen floor. We still don’t know where they came from initially — no rotted food found, but we’ll keep cleaning with bleach and checking every nook and cranny until we either find the source or they stop appearing