Identify eggs please

Hi Shiney,Mrs Shiney and Oscar,

They are definetly fly eggs Shiney due to the fact that Mrs Shiney has been putting food out for Oscar and the flies have sniffed out the meat and have homed in to lay their eggs all over it.:euw: which in turn will turn into maggots:(

The only way you will over come the problem is for one of you to be with Oscar when he is fed and to make sure that any food that is uneaten is dissposed off straight away before any flies have a chance to settle.If you close the greenhouse windows and doors while he is being fed,then the flies won't have a chance to get in.Having some of those yellow fly strips might help,if they can catch some of the flies:D Your problem will be worse in the summer months when there are many more flies about.

Also if you use pouches of wet food,make sure you put the empty pouches in a plastic bag,tied up before they go in the dustbin or else your bin will be crawling with maggots when the dustbin men come round.

If it's any consolation,I only left Mabel for fifteen minutes lying in her cage while I sorted out burying her and when I went back to the cage there was at least a dozen blow flies on her body,eeek.I don't know where they came from as there was no sign of them in the garden but they soon detected she was dead.:(

I hope the info that Peri has added above helps Oscar as well and please tell him from me to watch his bum on that cactus plant:D