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Vacuum cleaner infested with dirty maggots!

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Zero999:
Or use a germicidal lamp maybe? Preferably an undoped one which produces ozone.

Seriously though, I want to remove the grubs, not just kill them, as they'll rot and smell really bad.

It's in my parent's garden, which I can access, without going through their house, so I'll have a look some time over the weekend. I expect they will have gone by now. It's well protected from rain, so I hope it's not gone rusty. If I go and look at it, I'll post some more pictures.

Monkeh:
Throw the filter in the bin and wash the waste container with hot water and a bit of bleach. Hose the remains down the drain. Buy a new filter.

amyk:

--- Quote from: james_s on August 05, 2019, 03:53:22 pm ---I wouldn't spray poison in there, remember when you turn on the vacuum it's gonna blow that vapor out all over the place.

--- End quote ---
Do it outside and then run it for a while to let it dissipate. A lot of chemicals are highly toxic to insects but not much concern to bigger animals or humans.

Rerouter:
Those larva do not die easily, I've caught them recovering from direct hits of insect spray before, and 2 swings of bug bombs did not remove them

Now that you know some are in your house. prepare to see them in cycles of 4 weeks, you need to hunt them like an infestation, they love laying below any wooden skirtings, once they spin the coocoon, they seem much more immune to most insecticides, so In the past when I have faced off against them, the best method was squishing them, and cleaning all walls down with a diluted bleach,

It is redicuosly hard to get rid of them, they came in to our house from a small general store, found them crawling out of a box of cereal on the shelves of the same place when I started figuring out the why.

sadly my mother prefers that general store and keeps reintroducing them, despite my many, many! protests.

james_s:

--- Quote from: amyk on May 23, 2020, 12:34:43 am ---
--- Quote from: james_s on August 05, 2019, 03:53:22 pm ---I wouldn't spray poison in there, remember when you turn on the vacuum it's gonna blow that vapor out all over the place.

--- End quote ---
Do it outside and then run it for a while to let it dissipate. A lot of chemicals are highly toxic to insects but not much concern to bigger animals or humans.

--- End quote ---

Fair enough, just make sure you know what you're doing.

Personally I'd just throw the filter in the garbage and then hose out the canister and give it a good scrub with detergent and let it dry out in the sun and reassemble with a new filter. A spray with disinfectant works nicely to eliminate the smell if stuff has sat in there damp.

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