Moles, bees, and now maggots?

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[slyc_willie]

I'm facing the possibility of maggot therapy for this damn unhealing ulcer on the outside of my left ankle.

I share your ick factor. The idea of a few dozen or so fly larvae feasting upon the dead flesh around my wound . . . I've been shot. Twice. Survived several serious car accidents. Jumped from airplanes at low and high altitudes.

I still get a case of the willies (no pun intended) when I think of unleashing maggots upon my body.

Ick. Ew.

 

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[rgraham666]

I'll be having that problem some time in the future.

Here in Toronto the city workers are on strike so there's been no garbage pickup for four weeks. I imagine our garbage bin is a Class 3 biohazard by now.

 

[ishtat]

Maybe breakfast burritos and a side of that maggot cheese.

Never, ever look at cheese under a microscope.

 

[AngeloMichael]

One week last summer I forgot garbage day and the trash had to stay another week, by then the trash we had were crawling wih maggots...ick, ick, ick! I hate them!

But waht happened to you *shudders* so sorry!

Worse thing that happened to me was when I was dozing in my comfy chair and felt an itch on my arm and you know how it is when you feel something tickle on you and you immediately think it's a bug but 95% of the time it's just a piece of lint or a pet/human hair or something...but that other 5% of the time...

This was the mother of those 5% of the times, I looked down and it was a centipede crawling on me. I leaped out of the chair, but luckily I didn't lose sight of the pede, I grabbed a paper towel and killed it which is a good thing because if I had lost it in my chair I would never have been comfy in my comfy chair again!

 

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[glynndah]

One week last summer I forgot garbage day and the trash had to stay another week, by then the trash we had were crawling wih maggots...ick, ick, ick! I hate them!

But waht happened to you *shudders* so sorry!

Worse thing that happened to me was when I was dozing in my comfy chair and felt an itch on my arm and you know how it is when you feel something tickle on you and you immediately think it's a bug but 95% of the time it's just a piece of lint or a pet/human hair or something...but that other 5% of the time...

This was the mother of those 5% of the times, I looked down and it was a centipede crawling on me. I leaped out of the chair, but luckily I didn't lose sight of the pede, I grabbed a paper towel and killed it which is a good thing because if I had lost it in my chair I would never have been comfy in my comfy chair again!

A Centipede!?! Those are the worst things. Ick! Ick! Ick!

 

[Austin8]

Sarah

and now the maggots...

I thought I knew... ick!

I don't mind bugs but maggots used to bother me until...

I used to work at a garage that serviced the local garbage trucks in our little town.

Upon first look the trucks were clean and well maintained, but underneath and inside the main trash compartment they were teaming with life, disgustingly filthy, and yes you guessed it our little friend the maggot.

I shared this job with a guy who was suspiciously absent on this day every month! So after two years of maggots falling all over me, some the size of your thumb, I actually grew to tolerate them, don't get me wrong, I still don't like them, but I don't freak out when they are on me anymore, although I certainly understand that reaction.

Good Job on that sweetie!

Anymore home projects?

Oh yeah, I'll never look at cheese the same again...

 

[Handley_Page]

I have to say that maggots are very useful; if you go fishing. . . .

 

[Saucy_Sage]

It doesn't have quite the ring of "lions and tigers and bears," but still -- OH MY!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I have to say that maggots are very useful; if you go fishing. . . .

It's a UK thing, Handley. We don't use them here. Of course if we did, we'd probably catch more fish!

On the other hand, leeches make great bait!

 

[Austin8]

nope,

can't say Ive ever used a maggot for fish bait


There are many live bait's that I use to catch fish.

Live Bait:
These include earthworms, also known as night crawlers, and insects including grasshoppers, flies, and crickets.

Other ones are minnows, chub, shad, crawdads and frogs.


Prepared Bait:
These include kernel corn, bread balls, cheese balls, stink baits, salmon eggs, cereal balls, baked potato pieces, chicken guts and hotdogs.

Artificial Bait:
These include, plastic worms and insects, flies, lures, small jigs, streamer flies, spoons, streamers and spinners.

Nope no maggots.

Hmm, Bear, Leeches huh? must be a Cali thang...

 

[Huckleman2000]

Oh. My. God. That icked me out so bad I've got a knot between my shoulders and I've lost my appetite, even though it's almost noon and I still haven't had breakfast.

 

[Saucyminx]

Oh Sarah, your poor thing. I would have had a nervous breakdown. They are the one thing I can't deal with. When I was taking care of my mom, she would hide cans of cat food all over the house and despite twice daily search and destroy missions, one would occasionally get by me and urk. I would freak out. Still get the willies just thinking about them. I feel like I want to send you a fruit basket.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

nope,

can't say Ive ever used a maggot for fish bait


There are many live bait's that I use to catch fish.

Live Bait:
These include earthworms, also known as night crawlers, and insects including grasshoppers, flies, and crickets.

Other ones are minnows, chub, shad, crawdads and frogs.


Prepared Bait:
These include kernel corn, bread balls, cheese balls, stink baits, salmon eggs, cereal balls, baked potato pieces, chicken guts and hotdogs.

Artificial Bait:
These include, plastic worms and insects, flies, lures, small jigs, streamer flies, spoons, streamers and spinners.

Nope no maggots.

Hmm, Bear, Leeches huh? must be a Cali thang...

Nope, Canadian. We use 'em for walleye and smallmouth when we go up north. Personally, I don't particularly like catching (or eating) walleye. My thing is either pike on spoons, smallmouth on surface plugs or salmon au natural.

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[elfin_odalisque]

sarahh, feel for you.

Despite the useless advice the hairy hunter-gatherers here offer, there is a simple cure - bleach. If you dose your bags, bins, whatever with generous doses of bleach you will kill the pesky varmints stone dead and inhibit any further invasion.

Been there, done that - why are they the most disgusting critturs in the world? We've got a plague of hornets - warm and wet - and they sting.

 

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[Handley_Page]

It's a UK thing, Handley. We don't use them here. Of course if we did, we'd probably catch more fish!

On the other hand, leeches make great bait!

We don't see too many leeches round here, but I have seen a huge carp caught on a single maggot.