Maggots all over my floor?

Question

i was going to the bathroom and in a corner of my kitchen i saw a maggot in a spider web, then right next to it i saw another maggot crawling on the side of the wall, so i went to get some spray to kill them and when i opened the door i saw about three more crawling into my kitchen i continued to the kitchen and i saw more and more and theres maggots crawling ALL OVER my kitchen floor. how do i get rid of them?

Answer 1

Maggots are very fond of rotten food or rotting food which attracts them.Keep your house , floor clean.Any garbage containers show be covered tightly.Don't leave tiny bits of rotting food around.

If you have time to investigate, trace where it came from and exterminate the source-its parents.

Kelvin Loh

Answer 2

oooo i had this issue not to long ago i was putting my trash bags on my front porch (theres three flights of stairs to go down to the trash can and im pregnant so i cant lift heavy stuff) and underneath where my MIL lives she was getting maggots falling on her hahahahaha. what we did was boiled a bunch of water poured it all over the porch then bleached the porch. Then we went to her patio and poured boiling water and bleach all over down there that killed them.

Answer 3

have you had a lot of flies in your house recently??  otherwise you might want to find out what died under (or on) the kitchen floor.  that many maggots is probably not just a bowl of food that was overlooked.  did you spill some "meat juice" on the floor?  if you spill or drip liquid from meat (chicken, ground beef, etc.) and don't clean it up with disinfectant (bleach is best) that will attract flies.  is this a new home for you?  did someone get cut and bleed on the floor?  any blood, not just from ground beef, will really attract the flies (and therefore maggots will appear).  i'm picturing even the smallest kitchen and a floor even half covered in maggots will probably be more than just some rotten food.  good luck.  get alotta bleach (regular hydrogen peroxide will work, too, especially on blood and it won't stain your clothes and has no smell).  and maggots are pretty slow, so if you have the stomach you can just scoop them up in a dust pan and dump in a large, freshly changed trash can with bag then tie tightly and take out the bag.  sprinkling cleanser, like the original comet powder, will immobilize them enough to let you scoop and not freak you out.  it's cheaper than an exterminator.  

*if you use comet, rinse the floor before applying bleach to prevent harmful fumes.

Answer 4

Clean the filthy house.

Answer 5

Eww, call Pest Control. =o

Answer 6

I definitely agree with the first answerer. You need to call pest control. Look them up in a phone book, or call Terminix.

Answer 7

Are you sure they are maggots and not the lava of the flour moth, the look the same.  If you have little moths in your kitchen, then that would be them.  For that, you will have to clean your pantry cupboards thoroughly, and get rid of all open packets of anything.  Put some dried bay leaves around in the cupboards and you will never have the little things again.

Answer 8

Bleach water. A slightly stronger concentration than usual. about a 1/3 cup to a gallon of bleach. wash EVERYTHING down thourally and then let soack for about 5- 10 minutes and then wipe EVERYTHING really really well. THe other thing is that they have to find where they are comming from.

After everything is bleached its just a rousing game of "find that smell" (which with 3 kids ive come to play often LOL).

Good luck to you!