Worms in my buck mouth

[Tsalt]

Originally posted by boznarras:
I have seen this on the underside of the hide when skinning caribou, encapsulated in connective tissue. They are also called warble flies.
Interestingly, these were traditionally eaten by native people right at the time of butchering. Google it and you will see...
When they eventually emerge from the skin on live animals, the hides are full of holes until healing occurs. This was taken into consideration for deciding when to hunt if you wanted the hides for clothing, avoiding the time around the hatch. Vilhjalmur Stefansson wrote about this in his books on living with the Alaskan and Canadian natives for extended periods between 1906 and 1918.

That's really interesting.  My buck had a wound on chest... About a two inch slit. I wonder if that's what that was??

[Will Cocke 2]

If you have ever heard a deer sneeze I think this is why,  Just about all deer down here have them, bot fly larvae.  Not sure how true this is but i read that a fly places its larvae on a sleeping deers nostrils.

[Tsalt]

I have never even heard of bot fly so I went ahead and googled it.  A wikipedia article describes infestation like this...

The larval stages of Cephenemyia are obligate parasites of cervids.[2] Eggs hatch in the uterus of the female. She then flies close to the head of her host species and while hovering ejects her larvae into its nostrils.[3] Larvae migrate to the base of the animal's tongue, where they mature in clusters to a size of 25 to 36 mm. After being ejected by the host, they pupate in soil (2 to 3 weeks) before emerging as a sexually-mature but non-feeding adult, which must quickly find a mate, since its life is short.[3]

Nasty stuff!

[jjwaldman]

Must have been some crazy evolutionary stuff going on there!

     

I wonder if the single celled organism (from nowhere) first became a deer and then another one became a fly that decided to create eggs and them drop them in animals nostrils where the young somehow managed to mature in the deers mouth.  

I guess some people have more faith than me!  LOL

[njloco]

you  only have to eat  them,  if  it  was  your  best  buck  ever !  

[Robert Armstrong]

Saw those in a deer last year here in Oklahoma. Wondered what the were. Kinda taste like chicken.    

[bentpole]

:eek:    

[Dan bree]

Man I'm afraid to blow my nose!

[Petros]

Oh man, seen people pulling those out of their skin on youtube. Never occurred to me the US could have them. I thought they were a South American pest mostly.However up here in MN, I did get some squirrels years back that had a similar worm like thing on their bellies I could see moving. I spose there is multiple kinds of these things out there.

[Shakes.602]

That really is pretty disgusting. I dont think I could eat them straight out of the Snot Box, fry them babies up first!!