Gross, gross, gross

Ewwwwwwwwwww. Hope you get it sorted, until then though, feel free to come live with me, but youll have to put up with my footie watching husband and 3 bonkers cats, theres a few bedrooms available all doubles, take yer pick.

(its £50 a night cash up front)

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ew, that would freak me out, no wonder you don't want to go home - maggots bleurgh!

I was putting stuff in our wheelie bin last night and realised there were ants all around the edge of it, i've never moved so fast and today i've bought ant powder. I hate them.

Is it any consolation that if you're getting flies then most of the maggots are in the cocoon stage and therefore not wriggling about?

And once you've got rid of the resulting flies there probably won't be much of the food source left.

I've found maggots in the kitchen before, but they were a result of poor disposal of old food, therefore I am a truly dirty minger.

I'm a bit freaked out about eating dinner there. Although the kitchen seems fine, maybe mr jaz should take me out.

We've (well my dad has) stuffed a pillow up the chimney and there was only 3 there this morning and 2 at lunchtime. The chimney breast runs up through our room and that's freaking me out too.

Bleurggghhhhhhh.

You can come and live with me in London Taaaahn. I only charge 1 pair of CLs per person per night ?

Didn't you watch supersizers go...regency last night? Stilton with maggots is a delicacy dontcha know!

Sorry - yes, it is indeed vom-worthy <<sympathy>>

We had a dead bird lying somewhere on the roof at work and maggots were coming in the vent, so yes it is possible.

WT and Sophie you can have me on timeshare.

I only have 2 pairs of CLs left Sophie so you'll only have the pleasure of my company for a weekend ☹️ I can however offer you a nice line in maggots? I hear maggot shoes are the next big thing [nods head wisely]

Ewwwwww. I hate the nasty dirty little fcukers. I am absolutely petrified of them and am known to leg it out of the room if there's one in there (even in work meetings). They make me feel sick. H and I have a deal, he will get rid of the flies and I will get rid of anything else (eg spiders and dead stuff like mice or squirrels) as he's pretty squeamish and I'm not.

A couple of years back we had the same problem as you. Big fat bluebottles buzzing appearing in our sitting room and two of the bedrooms upstairs. It freaked me out so much that I refused to enter the house unless H went in first and zapped them with bug spray till they were dead. We emptied each room and even got the carpets and chimney cleaned and we couldn't find anything that could be the source. Until one day as we pulled up on out drive we noticed a dead pigeon to the side of the house. I got a carrier bag to pick it up with but as I picked it up it fell apart and a load of maggots fell on the floor and loads of bluebottles flew out. I screamed and ran inside the house crying and H had to sort it out. Ugh I feel ill thinking about it now. Anyhow we figured out it had died at the edge of the eaves of the house and the flies were coming into the house through the air vents which explained why we only got them in certain rooms. The flies must have dislodged the pigeon and caused it to fall onto the drive. We never had a problem after that.

Oh God I really feel ill now. I don't envy you.

[sob] how horrific EN.

I'm hoping the chimney sweep will find and remove something and it will all be over. The pillow seems to have stopped the influx (fingers crossed). I'm jumping every time I see something out of the side of my eye moving. I'm sure I seem like a right loon ?

I hope the sweep can sort if for you but I think I would have to burn the pillow afterwards. ?

I may put it in the guest room depending on who comes to visit us next ?

[shudder] I'll definitely be out of the house when the sweep comes and the pillow/bird is removed

We've had similar. When we were away we think a mouse died somewhere in our kitchen - came back to bluebottles everywhere (no sign of the mouse). It tooks us months to get rid of them fully.

And we never did find the dead mouse.

Maggots don't bother me too much, my dad used to take us fishing when we were younger. I remember being in town wioth my friends when i was about 13 and them being horrified when I picked up my dad's bait from the shop, a half pound back of wriggly maggots!

Then there's the joy of him forgetting he'd put them in the fridge (in the salad/wriggly maggot bait drawers) and having blue bottles around the house for days while mum played hell and made everywhere smell of RAID.

Also remember racing maggots and disecting them when we were young. they have little crunchy things inside. oooh, who'dve thought a brew time browse at hitched would have me getting all nostalgic about fly babies .. hmmm!

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Congratulations.You've just made several Hitchers retch?

Bleaurgh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You poor thing, that is grosser than gross, than gross!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sare..

Was it the crunchy part? Did I cross the line? ?

Everyone should put their hands into a box of maggots for fun.. it tickles! bearing in mind these were "clean maggots" in the sense they were not attached to anything decaying..

Would you like to move in Blossy? ?

NN that's my worry that it's something else lurking and we'll never find it. The lack of them since the pillow looks positive though right?

Yes, that and the bit about forgetting the maggots in the fridge,

Out of interest, what do the maggots "grow" on if not decaying food?

They're now migrating up through the walls and under your bed instead.

I think Jaz, by the time we had returned, all that was left was the bluebottles

I'm not sure what they feed them on at the bate shop. When you buy them, they just come in bags and are quite dusty, sometimes theres like a sawdusty substance mixed in with them. I'm no expert [:-P]

You can buy diff types, like ones that have gone all hard, best used to flick at your siblings while a fustrated parent TRIES to teach you the art of angling!

I'll just go pack my suitcase. I've had a BRAINWAVE.. you.. well WE.. (you'll be needing someone with maggot experience) .. should start harvesting them and flogging um to fishermen! GENIUS.

This time next year we'll be MILLIONAIRES.