I always heard of them as "wolves" and don't hunt prior to first frost.
I always heard of them as "wolves" and don't hunt prior to first frost.
My MIL's cat has one. How did you get rid of it?We had a cat that recently had one.
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My MIL's cat has one. How did you get rid of it?
We use to "boil" them out with peroxide....
Tell me the squirrels are safe to eat all you want to, I'm not eating them.
My MIL's cat has one. How did you get rid of it?
When I was young, my Dad an I went squirrel hunting a lot. The season typically opened around the 15th of September so we made quite a few hunts early in the fall.
A lot of the squirrels we shot had lumps under the skin and, when we dressed our game, an ugly gray worm would be found to be causing the lump. I asked my Dad what these worms were called and he said "wolves". I asked him why the squirrels we killed later in the season didn't have "wolves" and he said the frost killed them.
I've since learned these are the larvae of the bot fly. The larvae leave the squirrel and fall to the ground to complete their life cycle.
My question is - Has anybody else heard of these larvae refered to as "wolves"?
"I know up north alot of small game has them until the first frost, up there they called them Warbles."
I always heard of them as "wolves" and don't hunt prior to first frost.