So... what does 110,000 maggots look like?

[Katnapper]

The box they came in...

There were 4 bags of 25,000 each white maggots, and another smaller bag of 10,000 pink maggots.

They're already trying to escape from this bag. :huh:

Unfortunately it must have gotten hot or warm during shipping, as some about 1/2 of the maggots arrived black (dead). But half are white/cream color (or pink in the case of the bag of 10,000 pink ones).

 

[Katnapper]

Here's one bag of 25,000 dumped out into a jumbo sized (clean and disinfected) kitty litter pan.

Here's the whole 4 bags (100,000) maggots dumped into the container.

I took a long wooden spoon and stirred them all up. Not sure if I should have done that now, since I'm hoping to try to seperate out the dead ones (or at least some/most of them!). But not sure either how that's going to go! :mellow:

Close up.

 

[Kruszakus]

REPUGNANT!

But imagine those maggots crawling out of the box...

 

[Katnapper]

I put the red tub with the maggots into an old washtub and surrounded with ice. I've been to the gas station twice now getting bags of ice to cool them down. This is a lot of work, and getting expensive!

On top of the maggots, I placed a flattened brown paper bag; then all my ice blocks from my freezer; then ziplock bags of ice that I made up (ran my ice maker out of ice); then a carpet square on top. I placed a big sheet of thick styrofoam underneath the sliver tub to try to hold in the cold from the bottom.

Here the first 2 bags of ice in the bigger tub surrounding the container melted.

Had to get more bags of ice.

 

[Katnapper]

I divided up the pink bag which contained 10,000 maggots equally into 5 deli cups... so 2,000 apiece. They were all about exactly 1/2 full. So 1,000 maggots would be 1/4 of a 320z deli cup like we all use, with the cloth lids.

1,000 maggots = 1/4 of a 32oz deli cup

2,000 maggots = 1/2 of a 32oz deli cup

3,000 maggots = 3/4 of a 32oz deli cup

4,000 maggots = 1 full 32oz deli cup

Video in next post... as soon as it finishes uploading.

 

[Katnapper]

 

[Eldur]

Wow that is alot!! :lol:

 

[agent A]

I have green bottlefly eggs on manure that haven't hatched yet and are over a week old and my houseflies are adults and are breeding I have a cup of manure in the container for egg laying.

 

[planetq]

Gahhhhhhh!!!

So many maggots!

haha I don't know if I would be able to stomach that. I'm such a wimp.

Becky you are my new hero.

I sometimes have trouble even just looking at my container of live flies. Not a very appealing sight. haha.

You are a trooper!

Minkyu

 

[Rick]

Ha ha. This is great. Where did you order them from? Imagine putting those in someones house and letting them pupate. Could you imagine all the flies?

 

[charleyandbecky]

I'm going to show this to my husband and then maybe he won't recoil at the sight of my little vials of fruit flies anymore!

 

[revmdn]

You sure know how to have fun.

 

[Katnapper]

REPUGNANT!But imagine those maggots crawling out of the box...

Yes, I have imagined, lol. That's why I'm cooling them down so much... in addition to keeping them alive and not spoiling, it makes them not squirm about either! They're much easier to deal with when they're not doing that!!!

Wow that is alot!! :lol:

Yep.... and a lot more stink too! <_<

I have green bottlefly eggs on manure that haven't hatched yet and are over a week old and my houseflies are adults and are breeding I have a cup of manure in the container for egg laying.

Did you make the manure?

Gahhhhhhh!!!So many maggots!

haha I don't know if I would be able to stomach that. I'm such a wimp.

Becky you are my new hero.

I sometimes have trouble even just looking at my container of live flies. Not a very appealing sight. haha.

You are a trooper!

Minkyu

Thanks, Minkyu... although the smell did about knock me over when I opened the box and stuck my face down in to get a good look! Uggrrrrp!!

Ha ha. This is great. Where did you order them from? Imagine putting those in someones house and letting them pupate. Could you imagine all the flies?

Omg.... Gee, Rick, have I told you how glad I am we're friends lately? :lol:

I'm going to show this to my husband and then maybe he won't recoil at the sight of my little vials of fruit flies anymore!

Yes, they're just little larvae... like for FISHING... tell him that!

You sure know how to have fun.

Fun. Hmmmm..... and for some reason, I just don't feel that's the proper word.

 

[ABbuggin]

Goodness gracious! You could make an extra large protein smoothie out of them! :lol: :lol:

I haven't personally tied this, but it should work to separate the live/dead maggots out for you with very little work involved. Get some screen with holes that when the maggots are poured on top, only the live one can wiggle through. Put some of the screen over a bucket and make a dip in the screen so it can hold more maggots. Put some source of heat on the top (like a light about 6-12 inches away) and the live maggots will burrow all the way through the dead ones, through the screen, and will fall in the bucket. They hate excessive heat. Sort of a modified burlesse funnel trap.

 

[Katnapper]

Goodness gracious! You could make an extra large protein smoothie out of them! :lol: :lol: I haven't personally tied this, but it should work to separate the live/dead maggots out for you with very little work involved. Get some screen with holes that when the maggots are poured on top, only the live one can wiggle through. Put some of the screen over a bucket and make a dip in the screen so it can hold more maggots. Put some source of heat on the top (like a light about 6-12 inches away) and the live maggots will burrow all the way through the dead ones, through the screen, and will fall in the bucket. They hate excessive heat. Sort of a modified burlesse funnel trap.

Boy I'm glad I read this right now! Thanks for the tip, AB. Dennis (of Forked Tree Ranch) told me a similar scenario of how to separate them.... but I didn't have a screen, so was kind of counting that out for the moment. But I'm on my way in a few minutes to Home Depo for some paint for my shed... so going to look there for some appropriate sized screen. Now... to get my husband to separate those 5 gallon buckets he stacked together (I told him not to, as I can't get them apart <_< ). And yes... I can't get them apart! Grrrr.

The smoothie idea....... OMG and EGADS!!!!

Oh.... Rick, Forked Tree Ranch is where I got them. Forgot to mention that.

 

[ABbuggin]

No problem. I've had shipment of maggots arrive partially dead before and I know how much I hate separating the live/dead one individually. I've been getting pupae lately because they handle the shipping heat better, otherwise I probably would have given that a shot already. lol

 

[sbugir]

OMG...

 

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Ha ha. This is great. Where did you order them from? Imagine putting those in someones house and letting them pupate. Could you imagine all the flies?

Best senor prank ever!!! :lol:

 

[pohchunyee]

I can imagine the smell...OMG!!!