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Maggot
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Has anybody have any idea how to kill maggots in and around our wheelie bin. Any help would be appreciated.
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Are you putting the wrong kind of rubbish in your wheelie bin? You should put food in your food bin (in Bristol a small brown one) which gets emptied every week as opposed to once a fortnight for the wheelie bin. It is food waste, especially meat products, which generate maggots. If it is emptied once a week the maggots haven't got time to hatch and feed.
We get our wheelie bin emptied then cleaned professionally ever 2 weeks, we double wrap stuff and make sure everything is bagged.but when i went to the bin before there were maggots in the bin and on the floor around the bin area. Tried to put bleach on them and didnt make any difference. Thanks all for your help
If they are around the wheeliebin you need to train your tribe to make sure that any food offal goes IN the bin. The maggots are only cleaning up the food that is on the ground and so saving you from a really nasty disease.
Always wrap food that goes in the bin, flies have a way of getting into everything when they want to lay eggs.
Always wrap food that goes in the bin, flies have a way of getting into everything when they want to lay eggs.
Ginge - I thought that might be the case, which is why I mentioned Bristol in my answer. I did also think there might be a penalty if they didn't have separate containers, but I could be wrong. If they do not have separate containers it may mean that they empty the wheelie bins every week, which ought to solve the problem. In any case food waste should be well wrapped as suggested, because it is what the flies are looking for to lay their eggs. (Disgusting aren't they?)
Somewhere recently I saw the suggestion that you put curry powder in your bin to deter the flies. Not having easy access to curry powder (can't find it in my German supermarket) I tried chilli powder instead, and since I did my bin has been maggot-free. I also scrub it with bleach after it has been emptied and seal all food waste - the combination seems to work.