Parasitic cocoons in chipmunk!?!?!!

J.huff23

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Ok, so I saw the cat playing with a chipmunk. So I intervened. The little chipmunk had its back legs broken so i decided to nurse it back to health. I noticed that it had a disgustingly lumpy belly and what looked like teethe mark on the end of every lump. I figured this was just from the cats teeth. The chipmunk was flourishing these past couple of days. then all of the sudden, it died. While I was tossing it out, I saw something odd. I looked at the lumps to see these cocoon looking things crawling around inside of the belly. These things are huge. I pulled a few out using tweezers, while gagging at the smell and the reality of what i was doing. I managed to pull out three. There were still more in there. It looks like they were...eating, the insides of the belly. They were obviously there before death. Which now explains the lumps. I am worried that my dogs and cat will get these as well. The cage is being sterilized and the parasitic things have been killed. I was just wondering what the hell these are and where they came from.


Its not letting me put up the damn pictures.
 

Arachnosold1er

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probably a parasite called wolves. they are the reason that you dont hunt squirrel until after the first hard frost. The freeze killes the parasites in their skin. Weird huh!
 

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I've pulled botfly larvae from underneath dogs' skin that were over two inches long, and I've seen specimens of similar size, about the diameter of my thumb, emerge from the skins of squirrels and rabbits I'd shot. They're very common, especially in the South, and they will also infest HUMANS. A member of another site linked me to a video of a doctor treating what the doctor told him was a "Brown Recluse bite", in which the doctor can be seen clearly removing a fairly large, wriggling botfly maggot from an open sore on the man's arm! The doctor told him that the moving white mass was a "puss mass", which is yet-another very good reason to be highly suspect of ANY doctor who makes a "diagnosis" of "spider bite". It was clear that the doctor had no clue what he was actually dealing with.

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I've pulled botfly larvae from underneath dogs' skin that were over two inches long, and I've seen specimens of similar size, about the diameter of my thumb, emerge from the skins of squirrels and rabbits I'd shot. They're very common, especially in the South, and they will also infest HUMANS. A member of another site linked me to a video of a doctor treating what the doctor told him was a "Brown Recluse bite", in which the doctor can be seen clearly removing a fairly large, wriggling botfly maggot from an open sore on the man's arm! The doctor told him that the moving white mass was a "puss mass", which is yet-another very good reason to be highly suspect of ANY doctor who makes a "diagnosis" of "spider bite". It was clear that the doctor had no clue what he was actually dealing with.

pitbulllady

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Galapoheros

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A dog I had had a little one I got out. Man!, I didn't know bot fly larvae got that big!

Yeah I don't like going to the doctor. I'm glad they are there but so many times their ego keeps them from listening to the patient. When I've had to go, they've misdiagnosed me half the time because so many of them don't listen enough.
 

crpy

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Eww, a double post, thats a first, sorry for being a moron:eek:
 

crpy

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your not a moron your technology challenged:D
lol, you got it, like i said on many other threads , Im old.

I see squirrels all the time here with bot larvae in them sometimes so many ,they look like Quasimoto.
 

clam1991

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man how big do bot flys get if their larvae can get up to 2 inches?:eek:
 

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The old-timers around here always called them "warbles", but I think warbles are a different species from bot fly larvae. I could be wrong though. I'm not an authority on all things gross and revoltin'.
 

crpy

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The old-timers around here always called them "warbles", but I think warbles are a different species from bot fly larvae. I could be wrong though. I'm not an authority on all things gross and revoltin'.
Yeah same thing, you can find them on livestock all the time, thats where I first saw them.

Next time you eat a steak think of that yummy bot fly larvae:D
No really dont worry, they squeeze and squirt them out so they shouldn't be in the meat, maybe a couple setae left though.:eek:
 
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