maggots in my living room?

Question

i found maggots under my carpet in my living room how will i kill them and also do i need to buy a new carpet please someone help me its reali mingin

i have found maggots in my living room under the carpet i always keep my house clean i hover everyday and havent found them b4 ever in all my houses can someone please help me how do i kill them and keep them away ????

Answer 1

You need to find out where they are coming from, if they are under the carpet then my guess is that something has gotten under the floor boards and died, maybe a mouse or something, you'll need to find it and get rid of it, then just sprinkle something on and under the carpet to kill any remaining maggots (you'll get something in any hardware shop), and hoover them up. Although they look horrible the maggots themselves don't spread anything nasty, so the most you'll need to do is hoover and if you're really grossed out you could shampoo the carpet.

Answer 2

Maggots only Live on Dead Animals. Flies come in and lay eggs on the flesh within a set time frame and then hatch. Its like clockwork and its one of the main things that Forensic Detectives use to find out the day of death. As you have no flies, then the thing under your floor has been there a few days. Get a Pest Control Officer to investigate what it is. It could be a Rat (Ratus Ratus) or some other vermin. As you have not reported a smell, the flesh has not started to decompose and so you need to act fast before this happens.

Answer 3

There may be a dead mouse or rat nearby if they are maggots.I had a similar problem .I live down by a river and a rat got into the loft and died maggots formed and came through the ceiling light into the bed----a real nightmare.You will have to sweep them up.There is also a bug that is like a maggot which eats carpet.It is white but thinner than a maggot and the council will remove these for you

Answer 4

Are you living abroad? Did you or someone drop food and not know.? If you are living abroad that might be the carpet beetle that eats up the carpet in no time at all. You should get the floor scrubbed first with a disinfectant then put down tobacco leaves before you put the new carpet down. If you have no disinfectant then use salt....that will do it and dont feel sorry for the blighters either!!!

Answer 5

Get some fly spray this will kill them but you need to find out why they were there. Have you dropped food or faeces in the area? Once you have given the area a proper clean using bleach you can assess whether the carpet can be saved. A good carpet shampoo will clean the carpet if you can't afford new.

Answer 6

Hi, i have found maggots on my carpet too so i know it's easy to happen and not your fault!
mine turned out to be from a dead mouse, you do need to look carefully for what they have grown in!! like the others say hoovering or sweeping them is fine, but i would also recommend getting a pair of rubber gloves on and really going through the area of carpet you found them in carefully as they tend to try and hide down in the bottom of the carpet away from the light.
once i had cleared all mine away and located and got rid of the mouse i had no further problem.

Answer 7

Maggots live at a food source until they are big enough to pupate, then they crawl off to find a safe place for this. They can't breed until they turn into flies. So just vacuum up the maggots and get rid of them, then look for the food source that they came from. It could be a dead animal or anything. Insecticide is not recommended for maggots.
You can get a fly trap with an attractant and hang it outside to reduce the number of flies.

Answer 8

Other people have given you advice re finding out why they are there, but the maggots themselves are not dangerous, maggots can turn into flys so you don't want them, but hospitals are using maggots on peoples skin, to clean them of disease. In the UK they have found them very useful.

Answer 9

ok wdf I hate these things my kids dad didn't take the trash out left it on my balcony I removed the trash in put it by my front door before I left for work moved the bag it was maggots all on m floor and carpet how do I get rid of them and how long do they live

Answer 10

If there is no living material in your capet there will be no maggots. They live only whilst they can have access to...ewwww I'm grossing myself out!

Spray everything with eucalyptus oil diluted with water in a spray bottle. Then vaccuum relentlessly.

If it was me, I'd rip up the carpet and polish the floor.