bluebottle fly infestation, please help!

dacouch

adecor wrote: »

Hope you manage to sort them out - I found it imposssible to kill maggots when they got in the bin. Tried boiling water but they came back to life. Tried bleach but again no good - had to stamp on them which was gross. My OH said that petrol would have worked - but if I did that and set them on fire I'd probably end up with the house in flames!!

You should have put them out in your garden, bird love them especially robins. They would have been gone in no time

googler

Get the vacuum cleaner and hoover them up.

kazwookie

Open the window and get them to fly out.

Hoover the dead ones up

Once the bin is out and cleaned

Look under the kick boards in your kitchen just to check you don't have a dead creature of some sort under there!!!

olbas_oil

I had this experience, whilst in - quite a posh - rented flat. I had the estates maintainence team round, who sprayed fly killer etc. What they failed to do was what kazwookie suggests - check properly behind the washing machine and the drain vents.

A few months later we had other evidence of a rodent infestation. When they actually investigated properly, they found the body of a rat- that had been dead a very long time - what we now know to be the source of the original bluebottle infestation.

When the bluebottles have gone- the underlying problem may still be there. It's worth a thorough check. Also ask neighbours etc if there's any sign of rodents.