The Great Escape

dangermouse · Mar 9, 2012

Just opened my fridge to find that the condensation that occasionally forms in the top has dripped down into the open container of maggots I had in the bottom. Result, damp maggots that can escape from the container. So I`ve spent the last half hour picking up maggots from the fridge and floor. Don`t think too many have gotten away but I dare say I`ll be able to tell in the next couple of days

beerweasel · Mar 9, 2012

That might improve the flavour of the Stilton. :wh

Morespiders · Mar 9, 2012

Cant help laughing, serves you right, does the missus know.

Terry D · Mar 9, 2012

Had the same happen with a pint of disco pinkies. The wife didn't like a pink fridge but I was then able to get a bait fridge for the garage - deep joy.

rich_m · Mar 9, 2012

Reminds me of a similar incident when I was a junior...Mum not best pleased!
Have you tried putting maggots in the fridge in a plastic bag with the air squeezed out, so they go into a coma? I tried it last week for 3 days, didn't think they'd come back to life but slowly and surely the maggot miracle took place!

Bluenose · Mar 9, 2012

I had a load of worms escape about 12 years ago, like a scene from a cheap horror film!

Oh and it wasn't me that found them!

dangermouse · Mar 9, 2012

Morespiders said:
Cant help laughing, serves you right, does the missus know.

Thought it would provide some amusement. Not married so no worries on that score. One of the perks of being single, I can keep whatever I want in my fridge and no complaints.

rich_m said:
Have you tried putting maggots in the fridge in a plastic bag with the air squeezed out, so they go into a coma? I tried it last week for 3 days, didn't think they'd come back to life but slowly and surely the maggot miracle took place!

Yeah I`ve done that before, kept them that way for over a week and most of them did the Lazarus trick.

The annoying thing is I`ve been keeping them in the cellar but with the weather getting warmer I noticed a few were turning so I transfered them to the fridge.

Merv Harrison · Mar 9, 2012

Dangermouse, check the fridge door seal, if they've decided to 'house' themselves in there its a job for the vacuum cleaner.

Once had to completely clear out the fridge at 5.30am before fishing.

dangermouse · Mar 9, 2012

Merv Harrison said:
Dangermouse, check the fridge door seal, if they've decided to 'house' themselves in there its a job for the vacuum cleaner.

Once had to completely clear out the fridge at 5.30am before fishing.

Thanks for the tip, I`ll check that out. Just found a few more of the little buggers.

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Bluenose said:
I had a load of worms escape about 12 years ago, like a scene from a cheap horror film!

Oh and it wasn't me that found them!

I bet you weren`t popular at home for a while.

Bluenose · Mar 9, 2012

dangermouse said:
I bet you weren`t popular at home for a while

Is the right answer!

But I did get out of jail once, here!

dangermouse · Mar 9, 2012

Bluenose said:
Is the right answer!

But I did get out of jail once, here!

lol Bravo! Quick thinking that man.

simon dunbar · Mar 9, 2012

A few years ago , near the end of the season , I had some maggotts escape from a box in the front of my car. Scooped them all up and forgot about it.
A few weeks later on a really warm spring day approached my car , after a days work , to see a scene like something from the Amytiville Horror movie , my front window crawling with freshly hatched bluebottles.....took me a while to get them out of the car. The next day the same thing again!!

Lord Paul of Sheffield · Mar 9, 2012

I had a "few" escape a bout 5 years back - got them all - NOT

for the next 3 weeks the garage was full of flies

Windy · Mar 9, 2012

Merv Harrison said:
its a job for the vacuum cleaner.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....

Stop right there, put down the hose and back away from the Hoover now.

I once made the mistake of trying to hoover up an infestation of escapers when a pint or so being riddled escaped.

Never ever do this. The smell of burnt dried dead maggot parts and juices liberally distributed within the innards of a hoover is unsustainable and unbearable and permanent.

Goodbye old hoover, hello expensive new one.

Plus chocolates, flowers, a weekend away and whatever else it takes to restore domestic harmony.

Merv Harrison · Mar 9, 2012

We've used VAX for many years, no problems. Don't know how other vacuums work.

S-Kippy · Mar 9, 2012

Luxury ! I once had 4 gallons get loose in a Ford Capri in Ireland. Most suffocated [hot weather,no lid] and this was the sum total of our bait for the week. Spent all the next day stripping the car and scraping together what we could.

The dead un's we mixed with pig meal,balled into a lake we fancied that evening and had 200 lb of bream off it the next day.

dangermouse · Mar 17, 2012

Update

By Friday evening I`d only seen one bluebottle and I was congratulating myself on my clean-up job. Then late last night another 3 appeared, they seemed somewhat groggy and I despatched those easily with a rolled-up newspaper.

This morning another 2 or 3 were buzzing around and they too have felt the wrath of the Dearne-Valley Weekender (Which apart from the fishing match reports is the most service this local rag has ever given me). I`ve just noticed another on the kitchen window but as yet it has evaded my swatting attempts. Hopefully it`s the last of the escapees.

As an aside to this saga, it`s occurred to me how remarkable it is that a bluebottle emerges from a pupae that seems far too small to hold such a large insect.

flightliner · Mar 17, 2012

Never mind maggotts, try losing a pint of squatts in the house!!

Merv Harrison · Mar 17, 2012

"As an aside to this saga, it`s occurred to me how remarkable it is that a bluebottle emerges from a pupae that seems far too small to hold such a large insect".

It's known as the Tardis effect............

Totally Absurd Ratio Developing Inside Shell

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