what is the best way to get maggots out of a compost bin.

[pigstrr]

i need to get rid of maggots from my compost bin but i dont know the best way?

[agu]

Maggots are good! I always have them in my compost

I like to poke them with a stick and they get all wriggly, it sounds like a chewing machine

[DarkCrystalMethod]

How about a large sifting screen, presuming you can put all the dirt in it and shake hard enough?

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Have you considered rocket jumping?

[Fox Loaf Liz]

What exactly are you putting in there to cause maggots, OP? Burgers? Old hot dogs? Pineapple piz- okay I'm out!

[pigstrr]

Publicado originalmente por davidb11:

Maggots are useful for helping burn victims with massive amounts of dead skin needing to be removed. They are less dangerous than using any kind of medical tool, so maggots, despite being disgusting, are extremely helpful.

what this have to do with my compost ?

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

Sell the maggots.

Never put anything pork-related into your compost.

Mine is mostly plant-based. I might toss and some loose hamburger or something. But primarily I use things like coffee grounds which are excellent, banana and apple peels, and if I do add me it is very small amounts. I might toss in some cattle-based fertilizer. An oddly enough, I tend to cook it over the winter time. What comes out is pretty amazing for gardens. My tomatoes this year were massive, and my cucumbers were about 2 feet in length.

Good times. I hope you're storing your compost in something you can rotate because you need to rotate it.

[swillfly]

GIGI

[OGNocturnal]

Add some sliced lemons, oranges etc any acidic fruits you can get your hands on. Also make sure its covered properly so flies cant get in. Obviously don't go overboard on them or it could possibly affect the PH of your soil.

[Choco Cake]

use chemical

[Fox Loaf Liz]

Publicado originalmente por tiny E:

BTW, to get slugs out of your garden, lay out a bowl, or a plate, with some beer on it. The slugs come, drink it, almost immediately die. Take the dead slugs, puree them in a blender (I'm being totally serious) and pour the puree around the garden. You will never have slugs again.

But won't that attract the fruit flies? When my oldest brother was still staying with us when he was looking for a place to live he would drink bottles of beer and then leave them on the kitchen counter. One year we got so many fruit flies that we set out a bowl of apple cider vinegar with a drop of dish soap and the flies just went to town on that. Yeah, we got rid of the fruit flies after that.

[Eat3n]

Don't put things in a compost bin that attract maggots...like meat. Don't put meat in your compost bin. ONLY put plant products in a compost bin.

[chiefputsilao✖️ping]

1. do not dump dead bodies in your own compost pit.
2. do #1 again.

[Grendalcat]

Publicado originalmente por tiny E:

BTW, to get slugs out of your garden, lay out a bowl, or a plate, with some beer on it. The slugs come, drink it, almost immediately die. Take the dead slugs, puree them in a blender (I'm being totally serious) and pour the puree around the garden. You will never have slugs again.

But not the same blender you make your smoothies in...unless you like slug smoothies.

[Eat3n]

Publicado originalmente por tiny E:

Publicado originalmente por -EAT3N-:

Don't put things in a compost bin that attract maggots...like meat. Don't put meat in your compost bin. ONLY put plant products in a compost bin.

We don't keep meat out of our compost to prevent maggots, we do it to prevent wolves.

To prevent animals is reason #1 to not put meat in the compost...but that's not what the OP asked, so that's why i didn't mention it.

[Marlfox]

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