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I have fly maggots in the carpet through out the house?
Please Help!!!
4 Days ago, I noticed an increasingly large number of flies "suddenly" appearing inside the house. Friends said it's the cooler weather and they're coming inside to get ware, but I noticed this was very different. Suddenly they were everywhere.
I do not have pets.
I have lived in the same place for 5 Years.
I have never spilled anything on the carepts.
I do not ever have garbage in the house.
I vacuum 4 or 5 times a week.
Nothing died in the house and there has never been a rotting or putrid smell. There are no dead bodies buried under the floor.
That Said -- Please Please read carefully and hopefully someone has an idea?
I have the cleanest house in the world. No rotten garbage, no dead mice, no bad smells. Yesterday I noticed a mass of white moving maggots in the carpet. They were IN THE CARPET!!! How??? Where did they come from. I have a 2000 sq foot downstairs and found 7 areas where the maggots were concentrated. I have vacuumed up 100's in the last 24 hours only to find they've returned. They were also in the entry way carpet. When I picked it up today for a check, at least a good 20 more fell out... yesterday the carpet harboured at least 100. Where are they coming from? What are they eating??? The carepts are natural wool fiber. No one has ever been murdered in the house. there are no bodies beneath the floor. No one has ever shat or puked on the carpet, so what are they eating??? Please let me know if you have a similar situation and what you've done. I'm not kidding when I say the house is immaculate. Never spilled anything on the carpet. If anyone ever told me this about their house, I'd assume they were pigs and never visit again. I don't understand how this happened?
Waste my time with a stupid response and you get reported
In response to "Matey" below.
Thanks for your information -- I've not been able to find out where they came from, but I have not seen one in over 24 hours. I have a Central Vac with strong suction and was able to get them out of the carpet. They really burrow deep within the fibers. The carpets are scheduled to be clean in the coming week. It's a mystery as to where they came from or what they were eating. Thanks for sharing.
13 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It sounds like a "pregnant" fly maybe had gotten trapped in your home/flies were mating and then laid their eggs in there. It doesn't matter how clean your home is, if they were trapped the eggs still have to laid "somewhere".
Sounds like a nightmare . Just keep doing what you are doing--if you can clean the carpets using boiling water and soap may help too. and if problems continue contact an exterminator. (and they might additionally be able to give you insight into the situation.)
Good luck!
Editing to add: ya good question what are they eating? Well do you any fruit sitting on the counter or even house plants?
- 5 years ago
This is probably an old post but I'm going to go ahead and answer this anyway. If you have any flies in the house at all and they are ready to lay eggs and there's nowhere else for them to lay it except in a rug or in the carpet theyll lay them. I've had this problem over and over again and just woke up today to find a bunch of maggots crawling around my kitchen floor. There's really not much you can do about it if the fly is in here and needs to lay her eggs she will do it. Has nothing to do with cleanliness or anything like that if you get flies in the house that's what happens. Kinda gross but that's the way it is.
- 5 years ago
As an antique dealer who has furnished his home with antique furniture and Middle Eastern carpets and rugs, I have encountered the problem of Carpet Flies for a decade without being able to identify the source, until recently a really bad infestation caused me to investigate further and I may have traced the source to an Afghan rug that I acquired 20 years ago, and was probably harbouring carpet fly eggs and maggots (or pupea) at the time.
As antique carpets and rugs are woven from organic material, and dyed using vegetable dyes, which are not poisonous to the 'vermin', and provide an ideal food source to the little critters!
Plus the deep luxurious pile of such rugs are a perfect home to the eggs and larvae.
When they hatch, they resemble very small innocuous moths that flitter around rooms in the evening, easy to catch and 'squash', before they settle into soft furnishings and lay eggs.
Moth balls, or Permethrin, or a similar household chemical is probably the answer.
Good hunting!
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- 1 decade ago
Not sure if you have an answer yet, but in case not I have just had the exact same thing happen. This morning I noticed some maggots on the carpet by the front door and like you was horrified. I sprayed them and the carpet with Raid Fly and Wasp killer and more seemed to appear from the carpet. I then sprayed all the hall carpet and in particular the edges and maggots started appearing from all the edges. Having hoovered all these up I have sprayed again and waited for more to exit their hiding place. Now I have sprayed 2 1/2 cans of Raid just about everywhere I thought they might be and they appear to have stopped emerging. Since then I have read that the maggots try to use the carpet for their Pupae stage and if there are eggs about Permethrin which is in Wasp and Ant killer and other products wiill kill eggs. http://www.maggots.co.za/a-definitive-guide-to-get...
I still cannot figure out how they go there in the first place!
Here is another link that has some useful information
- 7 years ago
I woke one morning and right in front of my stove in the kitchen there were 50 to 60 maggots the I walk into my bedroom and they were some on my side of the bed and on my husbands side some in the living room and some in the hallway and some by the bathroom door I don't know what is the cause of it I have concert floor all around my house theres no garbage im confused I don't understand where there coming from also moved my stove and fridge an nothing so I cleaned everything and I was seeing two or three come out by the stove or on my carpet. when i woke up there were more. PLEASE HELP ??? thank u
- 6 years ago
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