Maggots!! ??

No thank goodness

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?).

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.

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.

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