The Most Disgusting Thing I Have Ever Seen

Sooooo, Toronto has a little fruit fly problem, thanks to a month long garbage strike.

I saw some of 'em in the cricket container and we tried to release them on a pretty regular basis but there's only so much you can do.

We were out last night drinking. I woke up feeling rather crusty this morning, and to my absolute horror, discovered that the cricket container was infested with maggots. Yeah, totally not what I wanted to deal with this morning, on an already upset stomach.

I took the container outside and set up a new cricket home in a container with a screen top, so no bugs can get in. I tried shaking as many of the crickets in to the new home as I could. Of course, that also woke up, and exposed even more maggots. When I started feeling too nauseous, I threw the rest of the container out.

As luck would have it, the maggots attracted all of the wasps that have made their home on my patio, and I had to fight them off at the same time. Some even got on to my patio table, and I had to clean that too:( *cries*

As I'm writing this, I keep scratching and brushing at myself. I feel like I'm being crawled. That seriously was the most disgusting thing I have ever had to deal with.

I have been taught a very important lesson here. Keep your crickets and feeder bugs in a container with a screen top. Air holes let too many things in there. Speaking of letting bugs in, I also noticed what had to be a mite in there as well. We have other pets, including birds, and that's just not cool.

I hope I caught it soon enough:/

*shudder*