Intruder Leaves Maggots in Home

[karrie]

It seems to me if someone were to intentionally gather up thousands of maggots, transport them to some house and then dump them on the floor of someone elses house, almost too elaborate. Maggots stink too. I'd be pretty pissed.

It seems more likely to me that they hatched up out of something that was spilled in that room. So many people don't bother to think of their carpet and furniture as capable of being a breeding ground for bugs.

 

[hermanntrude]

I don't think i'd refuse an insect that others were eating at the same table as me and apparently enjoying. Maggots might be difficult for me, though.
try anything once

 

[Tonington]

It seems more likely to me that they hatched up out of something that was spilled in that room. So many people don't bother to think of their carpet and furniture as capable of being a breeding ground for bugs.

Ditto. Lol, it's not like spontaneous generation or anything...

 

[karrie]

I don't think i'd refuse an insect that others were eating at the same table as me and apparently enjoying. Maggots might be difficult for me, though.
try anything once

With me there's a texture issue that comes into play more than the issue of it being bugs. I could probably eat grasshoppers, fried spiders, well, just about any fried bug. But, I often gag if I try to eat a soft banana, pudding, jello, yogurt... for that reason alone, the idea of munching down a big fat grub... *gag*. Fry it up nice and crispy, no problem. lol.

 

[Tonington]

Mmm, fried insects could go well with a nice steak

 

[L Gilbert]

It seems to me if someone were to intentionally gather up thousands of maggots, transport them to some house and then dump them on the floor of someone elses house, almost too elaborate. Maggots stink too. I'd be pretty pissed.

I think it's what they eat that stinks, Ton. I'm wondering why not let em develop into flies and then just use fly traps. Or set some food outside for them to go to and evacuate them from house that way.

 

[L Gilbert]

So far I've had ants, fried worms, raw worms, bees, mosquitos, the odd gnat, earwigs, the odd deer fly, a scorpion intentionally, and probably lots of spiders and other creatures that crawl into the big, warm, moist cave while it's open when I sleep. Not a biggie. I've got a little sign tattooed on my lip written in stinkbugese that says they aren't welcome.

 

[Tonington]

I think it's what they eat that stinks, Ton. I'm wondering why not let em develop into flies and then just use fly traps. Or set some food outside for them to go to and evacuate them from house that way.

No doubt about the foods they eat, but the maggots themselves can be quite stinky, due to the ammonia produced by the little buggers. Rotting organic matter + ammonia= gagukeright:

 

[L Gilbert]

Oh, yeah. I forgot about that bit. After one spends time crating chickens, one tends to not notice ammonia smells that much. (At least that's my theory).
I was riding my Bonneville one time and had a Junebug nearly take my helmet off my head. I wore a shield after that. Junebugs could be quite a mouthful, I would imagine.

 

[Tonington]

Junebugs, yah, like a shotgun slug. Horents can pack a wallop too when travelling at high velocities on bicycles.

 

[sanctus]

I doubt it sanctus... over here one buys maggots by the 'pint,' which probably amounts to a couple of thousand. There's no telling, if my scenario is plausible, how much the angler originally had.

Thanks.

 

[hermanntrude]

With me there's a texture issue that comes into play more than the issue of it being bugs. I could probably eat grasshoppers, fried spiders, well, just about any fried bug. But, I often gag if I try to eat a soft banana, pudding, jello, yogurt... for that reason alone, the idea of munching down a big fat grub... *gag*. Fry it up nice and crispy, no problem. lol.

you gag when u eat a banana?

hmmm

 

[L Gilbert]

Junebugs, yah, like a shotgun slug. Horents can pack a wallop too when travelling at high velocities on bicycles.

Watsa horent?
Never mind. U meant hornet. Almost too early in the day to decipher sppeeling mis-steaks

 

[Tonington]

Lol, hornets.

 

[TenPenny]

you gag when u eat a banana?

hmmm

Don't even go there.....when I read that post, I choked on my tea....

 

[L Gilbert]

lmao.

 

[Outta here]

Junebugs, yah, like a shotgun slug. Horents can pack a wallop too when travelling at high velocities on bicycles.

... just wondering.... how fast can a hornet go on a bicycle? :lol:

(Karrie, doing my best to divert the convo away from bananas) ;-)

 

[L Gilbert]

lol
Depends on the size of bike, and how many gears it has I would imagine.

 

[Tonington]

Hardy har, good catch Zan

 

[karrie]

you gag when u eat a banana?

hmmm

anything slimy and... *gag*... soft. Any joke you've got about it, I've heard it before. Trust me. lol.