When I was a kid my buddy and I would go fishing. We'd stop by the fishing store and buy maggots which were obviously sold as bait. Some of the maggots were dyed red or yellow to attract the fish, they were still alive as it was probably food dye.
As 11 or 12 year old kids we'd get bored once we reached the pond, ate our sandwichwes, drank our flask of tea and sat there staring at the fish float without a bite.
Our party piece to amuse each other was to sniff a live maggot up our nose and then produce it live and wriggling on our stuck out tongues. Kids are dirty little bastards when you think about it, at least I was

OMFG what a party piece, please excuse me while I faint at the thought.
A picture like that can give one nightmares you know

Your not missing much from this rabble

Just find the BE group, that way you can "friend" whoever you know.

Glad you got it all sorted - I take it you don't want to hear the story of my Bluebottle nightmare then?

No! No! NO!

Years ago when I lived in England my kitchen suddenly became infested by weevils. They came from dried dog food I'd bought a few days before. I then realised why my mum used to keep everything in airtight containers...especially flour.

What are weevils?? I know if I leave my dogs food in their bowls overnight ants come in their droves

There are many different types...these were tiny little white things...like specs of dust. I believe the eggs are in lots of products but if an item is kept too warm or too long they hatch. I always remember mum shaking the flour and having a good look on the surface before she used it.

Just for the ick factor...

http://poetry.rotten.com/maggoted-ii/

Not in a million years will I be opening THAT link!!

Yeah it is pretty gross... not for the faint hearted!

Sorry Samba, but I've just read this whole thread thinking ewww...

I hope you've got the problem sorted if not get out and buy yourself an armload of cans of raid and send the kids on a kill the buggers mission..

LOL well I won't go in to detail but I had a bit of a problem with Bluebottles which happened the very morning I had to rush to the airport to get a flight to the US. It's amazing what one lil human girlie can do when necessity kicks in!

So did you ever find the source? If they WERE maggots, and not moth larvae, you may have ... something dead and stuck in the walls - but you SHOULD be able to smell anything like that. I don't think you should relax till you find the source ... sorry to say !. We also had moth larvae - awful job to clean up as they get into EVERYTHING, but at least once cleaned up, and all flour/etc thrown out, we never had a recurrence (we now use those 'hormonal glue traps' that attract the moths and kill them; and EVERYTHING goes into sealed containers now).

I totally flipped out when I saw those moth larvae, btw - it's not just a woman thing !!

Why would Terminix not come out - there's a recession on .. this is business ... did they give a reason?!

OMG I DETEST Palmetto bugs; they freak me out. I've stayed at the best hotels in Florida (and Hong Kong, and Houston) and had those monsters in the shower ... I could never cope with that! I'm now spending 3 weeks out of 4 in Phoenix, and I have yet to see ANY insects - no flies, no spiders, nothing. And no mosquitos ... . So far, even the 100+ weather is a piece of cake due to no humidity. Sitting outside at a restaurant at night, in 90+ air, is a treat (again, no bugs!). There are, apparently, quite a few scorpions. I get those occasionally in my Bay Area home so not too shocked to hear that.

That's one thing I love about Phoenix. Very few creepy crawlies. and NO mosquitoes.

Rene