Dee on november 01 2017.
Maggots crawling my kitchen floor.
No signs of anything to feed off of on the floor under the windows or in the crawl space.
Maggots love to inhabit dirty places especially areas which might have food particles around.
Loose floor tiles and drains are also favorite places for house flies to lay their eggs.
We have found maggots in the corners of the kitchen floor.
You will also find them in guilty bins full of litter any food leftovers on the kitchen sink or carpets that are both dusty and damp.
If the maggots are limited to your kitchen dining pantry and immediately adjacent areas and are crawling on the floor up walls and along ceilings they are likely indianmeal moth or indian meal moth or indian mealmoth larvae.
House flies are considered filth flies and can transmit dangerous diseases to humans through their contact with food.
A reader recently found little white worms in his kitchen.
If you want to kill the maggots on the kitchen floor you need to be careful.
The reader left dirty washing perhaps something like dirty plates or dirty rags on the kitchen floor over night and in the morning there were lots of little white worms on the kitchen floor directly underneath the washing we receive a lot of questions about little white worms and ironically these questions are rarely about.
After hatching the maggots may wander around in search of food.
The home is only about 7 yrs old w sound brick structure.
This makes the kitchen floor an attractive place for maggots to go.
I have no idea where they are coming from but i am finding them intermittently i e 1 to 4 at a time crawling across.
Maggots and flies like to avoid peppermint and the peppermint oil also has the benefit of leaving behind a fresh clean scent which will cover up any rotten food smells.
Hi i m finding small maggots on the ceiling on my kitchen.
You can t just use pesticides because they are loaded with toxic chemicals.
Why do i have maggots on my kitchen floor.
The vinegar works at keeping the bubbles at bay as you don t want a ton of them over the surface of your floors or counters and it also has a natural antiseptic property too.
Why are there maggots in my kitchen.
On the kitchen floor.
