Keep them clean and dry on the bank in a large open bucket. At home I keep them in the fridge, also in an open bucket. You can suffocate them by leaving them in a closed fridge for too long as they are airlocked, so remember to open the door regularly.
Maggots can't be kept too long before they go off, a week maybe two is the maximum, and they need care and attention to keep the best out of them. You will need to riddle them, to remove casters and dead skins, and stop them sweating, so keep a bit of sawdust in them, and replace it after riddling.
Once they are all wiggling, place in a fridge at 1-2 degrees centigrade until required. Your maggots will arrive fresh with good feed sacks and will keep for at least 2 weeks providing they are kept chilled. Ideal chilling temperatures are 1-2 degrees centigrade. We can ship to virtually any address in the world.
If you need to keep maggots for longer then the bag in the fridge with the air squeezed out works great, upto a week.
If maggots have already made their way into your home, pour boiling water over them or sprinkle them with salt – this will instantly get rid of them for you. You can also try using fly bait or traps to catch and kill adult flies before they have a chance to lay eggs.
Bag them up
Pop the maggots in a bag, squeeze the air out, knot the bag tightly and leave in the fridge. After five days they should be ready to use.
How long do maggots live for? Maggots live for five to eight days before turning into pupa and then adult flies. Without food or water, maggots will only live for two to three days.
Now the weather is improving dead maggots are a great bait for fishing in the margins as once you have fed them they stay put and create a good bed to fish over. Once the fish arrive topping up with a large pot will keep the fish in the swim, and three or four soft dead maggots on the hook is irresistible for the Carp.
It can be a repetitive cycle if you don't take action to remove maggots from your wheelie bin – as each maggot feasts, pupates, lays eggs, and the cycle repeats. When it's warmer waste rots faster in the heat, which attracts more flies as the conditions for survival and feasting are even better.
Vinegar - Create a solution of equal parts water and vinegar. Pour in onto the infested area, the strong smell will repel them and eliminate the infestation.
Vinegar. If you want to try a more natural method, try a solution of one part vinegar with three parts boiling water. This solution will kill the live maggots and will also remove the fly-attracting odors from your trash can, temporarily preventing them from laying eggs.
Now to the care bit, if keeping for a while say more than 3 days or so the cleaning and changing sawdust as above should continue to avoid the build up of ammonia, they need to be kept cool, preferably in a refrigerator where the temperature can be kept to around 2degC, the warmer it is the sooner they will turn to ...
The most popular and possibly most effective chemical cleaner would be bleach and hot water. Combine equal parts bleach and hot water in your garbage cans and close the lid. The fumes will kill the maggots and disinfect the surface area, hopefully keeping them away.
Drink plenty of water and make sure it doesn't happen again. For anyone experiencing symptoms like those mentioned above, seek medical advice immediately from the nearest healthcare facility to address the issue promptly.
Put the maggots into a sealable plastic bag.
Press out as much air as you can before you seal the bag shut. Double-check the seal so you know the maggots won't get out! It's fine to use a small airtight storage container if you don't have a sealable plastic bag.
Maggots can't live in vinegar because of how acidic it is. Create a solution by adding one part vinegar to three parts water, and then pour the mixture directly over the maggots. Let the mixture sit for about an hour before getting rid of the maggots and cleaning the area.
A light yellow flour more commonly seen being used for cleaning and dusting maggots in the shop. Use as and aid to keeping maggots clean and fresh. Can also be used in boilie mixes. Add roughly a table spoon to a pint of maggots, allow them to work themselves through the maize for a couple of hours.
Once the pupa phase is over, the maggot is an adult fly, and the phases return to the beginning, and the cycle repeats. A female fly will be ready within two days to reproduce and only stays pregnant for 24 hours before being able to hatch her eggs, illustrating just how quickly a fly infestation can occur.
Dark environments: Maggots prefer darker environments since environments that are too bright can be deadly to maggots. Maggots have special light-sensing cells on their bodies that can detect areas that may be too bright for survival.
Use a general insect spray for flies like Raid since they effectively kill maggots on contact. Alternatively, look for a permethrin pesticide, which helps get rid of maggots and fly eggs.
Sprinkling diatomaceous earth over areas infested with maggots, such as garbage bins or compost areas, can effectively kill them by dehydrating their bodies.
Dead maggots are packed from frozen; they will slowly defrost in transit and be perfect for fishing on arrival. If you do not intend to use them straight away re-freeze them and defrost when required. To defrost simply open the bag tip into a bait tub and add water.
Ultimately, the physicians in this case found that pouring dilute hydrogen peroxide over the maggots and then gently wiping the the area with gauze was the best solution. This allowed for the maggots to become stunned and stop burrowing into the tissue long enough to be easily removed in groups.