Anyone ever seen anything like this before?

[Shakes.602]

Looks like an "Alien" to me!!         Man  THAT  is Gross!!

[bowdude]

I know I won't be moving south now.  Never seen or heard of em before.

[paleFace]

that thing had to be hurting! thanks for taking that squirrel out of his misery.

[bmfer]

That frickin' GROSSS!! This is the reason I don't shoot them untill there has been likr 5 good frosts! I DON'T have a weak belly but....UGHH!

[Chortdraw]

They get on cattle a lot

[JC]

Awwwwww, you bunch of sissies!    Heard em called everything mentioned, "wolves" are the most common terminalogy around here. They are just barely under the first layer of skin, doesn't hurt the meat at all. Down here, it's a fact of life a lot of the early season squirrels will have them, especially if you've had a rainy late summer.

Squirrel....it's what's fer dinner!

[b.glass]

I've seen these on cattle and once on a cat. We don't usually take farm cats to the vet but I felt sorry for this one with a wound that would not heal. Turns out to be this alien being growing inside its skin near the jaw line. The vet pulled it out with tweezers. Said it was a fly larvae.

[Killdeer]

I was fine 'til Eric opened his yap.  :p  
I will never look at a deer nose the same again.    

I used to see botflies around the horses, blapping their butts against the horses' legs to lay their eggs. It's a little different for a horse, they lip up the eggs, which go to their stomachs, where the larvae feed. They can make a mess of the stomach lining. After they get old enough, they let loose and get pooped out. I used to try to kill any botfly I saw, and would scrape the eggs off the horses' legs when I groomed them.

Killdeer~I am fond of cold-weather squirrel hunting!

[Guru]

Yeah, It was just under the skin as Joe said......

[Izzy]

Thats good to know.I found a dead gray and a chipmunk in my yard a few minutes apart.They had bumps under their skin but Ive never seen a maggot protrude from them.You did that squirrel a big favor.

[BigRonHuntAlot]

Botfly larvae is a common thing when taking squirrels in warm weather. Most of the time when you skin em out they will fall out whether they are ready or not. We call em " Wolves " too. There is nothing wrong with the meat. This is just a parasite that you can see like a tick except they are under the skin.

 Just don't clean em in front of someone and expect them to eat a squirrel afterwards. LOL

[James Wrenn]

Just roll them in seasoned cornmeal and fry them up quick.Makes a nice appetizer before the treerats get done. Ain't no sissies around here!  

[Killdeer]

"Seek the wolf in thyself"

Thanks, HerkimerHunter! :eek:      
I'm gonna go watch a nice horror movie now, so I can dream nice dreams tonight. Plan 9 From Outer Space, maybe...

Killdeer~yakkkkk
Hmmm. Breaded and fried?   :rolleyes:    

[Forester]

I read a short story in PA Game News several years back about a women who developed a bump on her forearm.  It swelled and became sore.  The morning before her doctors appointment she felt it move.  She described the pleasure of watching one of these "wolves" emerge from her own body.  I'll never forget that article, it was the first thing I thought of when I saw Guru's pictures.

A little like the parasites in a deer, just extra protien for us hunters   :p

[Tdog]

Curt you know you must eat what you shoot. Use alot of garlic when you cook that larvae. Let me know how it is.

[COMBER]

I was out at my hunting lease in Kansas with the rancher when I made the mistake of asking him what the golfball sized lump was on the side of one of the calfs he was working and he showed me by using his pocket knife and squeezing the Larve out. I almost went vegatarian after seeing the Fly Larve pop out of that calf.

[Archer Fanatic]

They are also on cows.  I used to pop them while milking the cows during the hot summer months.

[SouthMDShooter]

ya the meat is fine to eat, and what ive always heard there pretty much gone after the first frost...curtis

[SouthMDShooter]

ya the meat is fine to eat, and what ive always heard there pretty much gone after the first frost...curtis

[sticshooter]

YIKES!      :eek:  I'd see that and wet myself! Guru your right looks like something outta the movies! Did ya eat the bushytail?<><.