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Friday night Update: Victory achieved! Bugs vanquished! Room remains far too warm!

Backstory:

• My room has no windows for ventilation, only a door
• We keep our yard waste bin (which doubles as a compost bin) 10 feet from this door
• Leaving this door open is pretty much required if I want to use my PC
• I decided to play Rocket League tonight
• It rained

After about 2 hours of Rocket League I went to close my door and

Now its 4:30 AM and even after disposing of what I assume is about 90% of their numbers, I'm stuck waiting for morning to dismantle my room and clear out the last of them, as moving my desk/bed at this house is impossible without waking the entire house.

So GAF, how is your Friday morning going?

 

[KonradLaw]

Buy a dog? They like eating them

 

[Deleted member 74300]

 

[Wolfe]

I appreciate the reaction gif (can't go wrong with italian spiderman) but where's the pics of the maggots?!

That's what I expected to see when opening the thread.

 

[Valkyr Junkie]

Get a screen door.

You don't end up with a massive amount of moths and other critters inside your room on a regular basis using this routine?

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Can't do a windowless room

 

[Nico_D]

What kind of maggots were they?

 

[Zepp Twofist]

Wait. Are the maggots inside or outside of your room/house?

 

[mrklaw]

the description sounds like you left your door open, and a bunch of maggots (presumably happily living in the compost/bin) were attracted by the sound of you playing Rocket League and marched en mass through your open door and into your room?

Surely not? Have you never noticed maggots near the bin before? Is this bin inside the house? If not what kind of house do you have where there is only one room, no windows and just a door to the outside?

I'm confused.

 

[RandomExpletive]

That's what I expected to see when opening the thread.

Get a screen door.

You don't end up with a massive amount of moths and other critters inside your room on a regular basis using this routine?

I do have one but its not an exact fit to the door. After this I'll be making some MAJOR adjustments to its fitting. I get a moth every month or so, unless all the critters are hiding under my bed and promptly dying, haven't seen anything else aside from a stray roly poly

Surely not? Have you never noticed maggots near the bin before? Is this bin inside the house? If not what kind of house do you have where there is only one room, no windows and just a door to the outside?

Parents house, my room has a door leading to the backyard. Thats the door they got through

 

[Wolfe]

I do have one but its not an exact fit to the door. After this I'll be making some MAJOR adjustments to its fitting. I get a moth every month or so, unless all the critters are hiding under my bed and promptly dying, haven't seen anything else aside from a stray roly poly

Lol damn up on the windows even? Nice. I'm assuming some got inside?

 

[RandomExpletive]

Lol damn up on the windows even? Nice. I'm assuming some got inside?

Thats my door, and yeah they ended up inside the room, thankfully when I checked the door, most of them were just sitting there, but a few had already hidden under my bed.

Now I'm stuck here watching DBZ waiting for morning so I can dismantle my room and fix that screen on my door

 

[mrklaw]

Thats my door, and yeah they ended up inside the room, thankfully when I checked the door, most of them were just sitting there, but a few had already hidden under my bed.

Now I'm stuck here watching DBZ waiting for morning so I can dismantle my room and fix that screen on my door

if it makes you feel any better, they only eat dead/decaying matter. so even if they do crawl all over you while you're sleeping, they won't do any harm. clean ones are actually used in medicine in some situations to clean wounds.

 

[Corpekata]

They are coming for your computer because PC Gaming is Dead ™

 

[Breads]

A room with no windows or ventilation? I... don't think this qualifies as a room.

I would say it's a shed but even my two sheds have windows.

Gonna need more info on your room sitch. What are your walls like. How is the humidity. What kind of insulation do you have. Etc.

 

[Premium Quality]

Time to call in the spider bros. They will clear them out.

 

[Wag]

Mad Max will take care of them for you.

 

[Timedog]

nm I think I get it now

 

[Erheller]

Back in the Age of Sail, the main ration issued to sailors was a type of hard biscuit called hardtack. If kept perfectly dry, hardtack was as tough as a brick and could last for decades. But at sea, food often had to be stored for months on end in the damp ship's hold. So maggots bred in hardtack faster than console fanboys on gaming side. While sailors never really figured out how to completely get rid of maggots in their food (some would soak the hardtack in coffee or water and wait for the maggots to drown and float to the surface; others would just scarf down the whole thing in a dark room), a fairly effective method was to place a dead fish on top of the hardtack. After about a day, a good portion of the maggots would have happily migrated to their new (dead) fishy friend, which was promptly thrown out and replaced with another dead fish. While this didn't completely eliminate the maggot problem, it certainly reduced their numbers (but gave the hardtack a distinct, fishy smell).

You should give it a shot. For science.

Bonus picture of hardtack:

Each of the little holes (not the big holes organized in rows and columns) are where maggots used to live.

 

[kaname-san]

Back in the Age of Sail, the main ration issued to sailors was a type of hard biscuit called hardtack. If kept perfectly dry, hardtack was as tough as a brick and could last for decades. But at sea, food often had to be stored for months on end in the damp ship's hold. So maggots bred in hardtack faster than console fanboys on gaming side. While sailors never really figured out how to completely get rid of maggots in their food (some would soak the hardtack in coffee or water and wait for the maggots to drown and float to the surface; others would just scarf down the whole thing in a dark room), a fairly effective method was to place a dead fish on top of the hardtack. After about a day, a good portion of the maggots would have happily migrated to their new (dead) fishy friend, which was promptly thrown out and replaced with another dead fish. While this didn't completely eliminate the maggot problem, it certainly reduced their numbers (but gave the hardtack a distinct, fishy smell).

You should give it a shot. For science.

Bonus picture of hardtack:


Each of the little holes (not the big holes organized in rows and columns) are where maggots used to live.

nah, those holes are just where they injected the flavor crystals

 

[Hyperactivity]

OP no pics?

Back in the Age of Sail, the main ration issued to sailors was a type of hard biscuit called hardtack. If kept perfectly dry, hardtack was as tough as a brick and could last for decades. But at sea, food often had to be stored for months on end in the damp ship's hold. So maggots bred in hardtack faster than console fanboys on gaming side. While sailors never really figured out how to completely get rid of maggots in their food (some would soak the hardtack in coffee or water and wait for the maggots to drown and float to the surface; others would just scarf down the whole thing in a dark room), a fairly effective method was to place a dead fish on top of the hardtack. After about a day, a good portion of the maggots would have happily migrated to their new (dead) fishy friend, which was promptly thrown out and replaced with another dead fish. While this didn't completely eliminate the maggot problem, it certainly reduced their numbers (but gave the hardtack a distinct, fishy smell).

You should give it a shot. For science.

Bonus picture of hardtack:


Each of the little holes (not the big holes organized in rows and columns) are where maggots used to live.

What a waste of good protein... getting rid of the fish, maggots, and losing the hardtacks the maggots ate.

Should have just cooked it on the ship, plenty of timber to start a fire

 

[televator]

Back in the Age of Sail, the main ration issued to sailors was a type of hard biscuit called hardtack. If kept perfectly dry, hardtack was as tough as a brick and could last for decades. But at sea, food often had to be stored for months on end in the damp ship's hold. So maggots bred in hardtack faster than console fanboys on gaming side. While sailors never really figured out how to completely get rid of maggots in their food (some would soak the hardtack in coffee or water and wait for the maggots to drown and float to the surface; others would just scarf down the whole thing in a dark room), a fairly effective method was to place a dead fish on top of the hardtack. After about a day, a good portion of the maggots would have happily migrated to their new (dead) fishy friend, which was promptly thrown out and replaced with another dead fish. While this didn't completely eliminate the maggot problem, it certainly reduced their numbers (but gave the hardtack a distinct, fishy smell).

You should give it a shot. For science.

Bonus picture of hardtack:


Each of the little holes (not the big holes organized in rows and columns) are where maggots used to live.

Why not just eat the fish instead of the maggot riddled brick bread?

 

[Barrylocke]

OP no pics?



What a waste of good protein... getting rid of the fish, maggots, and losing the hardtacks the maggots ate.

Should have just cooked it on the ship, plenty of timber to start a fire

Why not just eat the fish instead of the maggot riddled brick bread?

Do we know the fish to hardtack ratio? Maybe one dead fish de-maggotted a ton of hardtack. Of course we still lose out on the delicious protein of the maggots themselves...

 

[RandomExpletive]

Well boys, I must've lucked out and caught most of them early.

After moving out my shelf, desk, and bed, I finally found the last remnants of the maggot invasion force. 3 of them thought it wise to hide under my guitar case.

Played Rocket League tonight aaaaaand I need to figure out how to cool this room cause without that door open my GPU went over 80 degrees, compared to the usual 70-75 max.

A room with no windows or ventilation? I... don't think this qualifies as a room.

I guess when I say window I mean something you can open to let a breeze in. The back door is a glass door, so technically its a window, just you can't open it without inviting a swarm of bugs inside.

As for ventilation? Well my dad prefers the thermostat on whichever setting is the cheapest, so the fans in the vents never kick on, and even when they do the room never seems to cool itself down very much. It certainly doesn't cool down fast enough to let my PC run at a decent temperature.