My least favorite bug has to be the maggot. Why? Well, long story short, my apartment was infested with them last fall.

I walk out of the *clean, well-cared for* apartment in the morning - all's fine and dandy. I return that night - over 300 maggots crawling all over my floors (carpeting *and* linoleum.) They must've come from the kitchen trashcan (which I'd emptied just 4 days earlier...) but I have no idea how they climbed up the sides, since none of them were anywhere but my floors. I had pick up everything on the floors (magazines, books, shoes, my favorite pair of jeans), try to avoid screaming when I'd see the little f___kers squirming underneath, and squish each and every one with tissues and throw them out. There were 4 under my bed!!!! It still makes me gag. Damn houseflies... Any possible ideas how that happened??

Sara

The nasty little maggots crawl up the wall to the ceiling and make a cocoon there. But the worst part is, they get into everything! I have to keep my cereals and meals in plastic containers now to keep them from getting into them, and even keep them in the freezer sometimes. Not the cereals, the meals.

I talked to an exterminator, and he said that I could do as good a job as he could (very honest of him), because you just had to seal everything up and keep at them until they were gone. He said that if he came to spray, he'd have to come back month after month, and it would be better for me to do a daily scan and get them that way.

Cockroaches are just plain gross, especially the ones that fly! Yuk!

(A personal note: a "weaserbug" can be a bit stubborn at times, but is usually friendly and kind.:)