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Please Help Me!

8 years ago

I'm having some pest problem at the minute.


I keep finding maggots and/or pupa in the area around my kitchen bin.


I asked for help and was told to keep it clean and fresh.


The problem is though that since I moved into the house over a year ago, I clean the whole kitchen twice a week with 4 Cleaning products(Bleach, Disinfectant, Antibacterial and a normal floor cleaner.) focusing mainly on the areas around the bin, the bin itself(inside and out) and anywhere food debris might get trapped(behind the oven etc).


Since i do this i don't know what else i can do to get rid of them and stop them coming back.

Please Help!!

Comments (12)

  • 8 years ago

    Yes it is. The bags get taken out twice a week and placed in and exterior shed until its weekly collection. At no point do the old bas come through the house.

  • 8 years ago

    Take the trash out every day.


  • 8 years ago

    We take our trash out every day. Any throw away raw meat scraps or bones are put in a zip lock bag.

  • 8 years ago

    Maggots come from flies. Do you see flies in the area?

  • 8 years ago

    That's the weirdest part of it all. I haven't seen any flies for weeks now in the house

  • 8 years ago

    Can you move the bin to another location in the kitchen for a while? There must be some eggs somewhere, or some flies in the area, or you wouldn’t keep getting the maggots.

  • 8 years ago

    Cleaning won't do a thing--you have to find and remove the food source.
    That food source isn't crumbs; it's something bigger. You're finding
    maggots and pupae because they leave their food source when they
    are ready to pupate. But that's not where they grew up. They don't go
    very far of course, but the eggs were laid in their food and that is
    where they spent their maggothood, NOT on your nice clean floor.

    Take the trash out every day until you break the cycle. But, you should confirm it's the trash that is the source.

    Move the bin to a different location and see if new maggots move along with it. If they keep showing up in the original location, it's not the trash.


    While we're at it, what kind of flies? Or at least what size? And what's the climate like/what part of the world? The life cycle speed increases as temperature does.

    Is it an apartment/attached house/condo? What is below the maggot spot? And if against a wall, what's on the other side?

    It might not be you! You might be able to blame that guy next door!


  • 8 years ago

    You've made a good start and gotten great advice. My advice is to take everything out of your cabinets. Remove any shelf paper. Vacuum the cabinets' insides and then wash the shelves with hot soapy water. Put any unsealable bags and open boxes in ziploc bags. Don't put food items back in the cabinets just yet, leave them out on a table or counter for a week. Check the bags every day to see if there are new bugs visible.

    You can also move the fridge out and clean underneath it.

    Pheromone-baited pantry moth traps work very well if that's what you happen to have.

  • 8 years ago

    If you take photos of the larvae and pupae, you may get some comments identifying them.

  • 8 years ago
    Gross, you have my sympathy. Agree with what others have said. ..they must be coming for something. I put my "garbage" in a zip lock and freeze it until trash day.
  • PRO
    8 years ago

    It sounds as though you may have some flies inside the cabinetry that are reproducing hence the maggots. See if you can take the entire receptacle out and spry with fly spray and let it dry for a day or so. I would do a couple of treatments and then clean with Clorox wipes on the plastic material only. Do a test spot for the spray in case it causes changes in color in the interior wood surface of the cabinet. Hopefully that helps.