I Hate This Time of Year and This Made Things Worse
Posted 10-18-09 at 08:41 pm by Res Judicata
Since the temperature is dropping all the spiders and insects have decided to invite themselves over to my nice, warm house. I found a spider in my bathroom so big I saw the glint in its eyes when I turned on the lights. Ladybugs are clinging the window screens. And the flies are everywhere. I have counted about 6, but the way flies are they make it seem like we have hundreds.
And what I found in the guinea pig cage really grossed me out. Sometime last night after I went to bed someone peed in the food bowl. This morning when I went to clean it out, I found that the mushy, peed-in part was full of tiny, wriggling newly hatched maggots. I nearly threw up.
Later I wondered if I had missed putting pellets in their bowl yesterday or something. How could there be maggots in it. A little research told me that fly eggs can hatch in as little as six hours. Oh. Yay. So, today the pets went with the kids to Grandma's, the plants were locked in the bathroom and we fumigated the place. I hate having to use chemicals, but the maggots are the last straw. I do not have the luxury of checking my pig's cage every six hours to make sure some housefly has not left me a present. And all it takes is one gravid female fly to cause a problem.
And what I found in the guinea pig cage really grossed me out. Sometime last night after I went to bed someone peed in the food bowl. This morning when I went to clean it out, I found that the mushy, peed-in part was full of tiny, wriggling newly hatched maggots. I nearly threw up.
Later I wondered if I had missed putting pellets in their bowl yesterday or something. How could there be maggots in it. A little research told me that fly eggs can hatch in as little as six hours. Oh. Yay. So, today the pets went with the kids to Grandma's, the plants were locked in the bathroom and we fumigated the place. I hate having to use chemicals, but the maggots are the last straw. I do not have the luxury of checking my pig's cage every six hours to make sure some housefly has not left me a present. And all it takes is one gravid female fly to cause a problem.
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That sounds horrible!! I don't know what I would do if I saw that in my piggies bowl. Hopefully your problem is solved. I didn't know that eggs could hatch so soon though. That's gross.Posted 10-18-09 at 10:41 pm by twiztedlilfae
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That's really gross. Poor you. We usually don't have a problem with insects but squirrels and mice like to invite themselves in for the winter and live between our floors. Ugh.Posted 10-19-09 at 11:15 am by Scout.Layne -
Thats gross, I feel so bad for you! Hopefully this all clears up soon.
Like scout, I have squirrels that love to make the inside of my walls their home for the winter. *sigh*Posted 10-20-09 at 03:19 pm by dra&pigs -
I agree. I think bugs are easier to get rid of. My parents had problems with a birds getting in their chimney for a couple of years, even though the chimney was screened off. They went on vacation for 2 weeks once one summer and came back to the lovely smell of dead bird. They replaced the chimney top and haven't had trouble since.Posted 10-20-09 at 05:09 pm by Res Judicata
