Pumpkin
08-04-2008, 09:17 AM
Now I LOVE a horror movie but not when things from them become reality!!!
Everytime it rains the nightmare begins.....
I am a smoker (yea yea I know smoking is bad, just quit, etc etc...figured I say it b4 someone else does so u don't have to bother now...lol) I am an outdoor smoker, I do not smoke in my home. SO....lately, when I go out to smoke and it has rained or is raining, I am greeted with maggots EVERYWHERE!!!
They are crawling on my step, up my door over the window and cover about half of my driveway. Like I said right from a horror movie...EWWWWW! Now, we all know that our wonderful green boxes have a tendency to create this problem (That's why they should be picked up everyweek instead of two)but we are not as priveledged with our compost and garbage like south enders and who ever else that has their garbage . etc picked up every week. ....
BUT I am wondering is the box the only problem?. For some reason on hot days, blow flies are everywhere in my driveway right near my door, well they seem to hang around in the vicintiy that the maggots appear, and not just at the compost bucket. More are in and around the driveway than the box so I do not know if the compost box is the only problem here. Maybe the maggots are hatching into flies thus creating more....or if the darn things are laying their eggs everywhere....I dunno
All I know is I have to do something because I am literally starting to have bad nightmares, very vivid nightmares, even one where they were falling from my 8yr olds face. Nice way to wake up huh....
Anyways, does ANYONE have ANY ideas on what I can do? Anyone else having these problems? What do you do?
After it is picked up tomorrow, I am taking javex and some pinesol and giving it to it real good cuz it STINKS too. My neighbors have even come into my driveway to chat with me and made comments on the stink while standing there chatting. (How embarrassing!!!) Anyways, that is what I am gonna try and that is more to fight the odor, which will happen again by the time 2 weeks rolls around again... but I have to do it!!! Anyone know of anything I can do to fight the maggot problem???? ANYTHING!!!!???
Everytime it rains the nightmare begins.....
I am a smoker (yea yea I know smoking is bad, just quit, etc etc...figured I say it b4 someone else does so u don't have to bother now...lol) I am an outdoor smoker, I do not smoke in my home. SO....lately, when I go out to smoke and it has rained or is raining, I am greeted with maggots EVERYWHERE!!!
They are crawling on my step, up my door over the window and cover about half of my driveway. Like I said right from a horror movie...EWWWWW! Now, we all know that our wonderful green boxes have a tendency to create this problem (That's why they should be picked up everyweek instead of two)but we are not as priveledged with our compost and garbage like south enders and who ever else that has their garbage . etc picked up every week. ....
BUT I am wondering is the box the only problem?. For some reason on hot days, blow flies are everywhere in my driveway right near my door, well they seem to hang around in the vicintiy that the maggots appear, and not just at the compost bucket. More are in and around the driveway than the box so I do not know if the compost box is the only problem here. Maybe the maggots are hatching into flies thus creating more....or if the darn things are laying their eggs everywhere....I dunno
All I know is I have to do something because I am literally starting to have bad nightmares, very vivid nightmares, even one where they were falling from my 8yr olds face. Nice way to wake up huh....
Anyways, does ANYONE have ANY ideas on what I can do? Anyone else having these problems? What do you do?
After it is picked up tomorrow, I am taking javex and some pinesol and giving it to it real good cuz it STINKS too. My neighbors have even come into my driveway to chat with me and made comments on the stink while standing there chatting. (How embarrassing!!!) Anyways, that is what I am gonna try and that is more to fight the odor, which will happen again by the time 2 weeks rolls around again... but I have to do it!!! Anyone know of anything I can do to fight the maggot problem???? ANYTHING!!!!???