Is Your Garbage Crawling With Maggots?

One of the grossest things to deal with is maggots. Maggots are most commonly the larva of a common house fly. As we all know, flies love dead, rotten and often stinky things, this is also where they lay their eggs. Once the eggs have been laid, they will hatch in 8-20 hours, producing wiggly little maggots. Maggots’ main goal is to eat as fast as they can to prepare themselves for their pupa phase before they become a fly.

One of the first steps to getting rid of maggots, is preventing them before they can occur. If you have a garbage disposal, use it. Never leave piles of food in the garbage for long periods of time inside of your home, especially during the summer. However, if you do get maggots, the most effective treatment seems to be dump boiling water mixed with bleach on them. While bug sprays seem like the best solution, it often does not work and makes them more active.

If you are too squeamish to deal with maggots, or if you have an extensive maggot issue, please call Extermatrim Exterminating (800-620-PEST) immediately.

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