Here is something that you don't see everyday...

Probably a bot fly larve. I shot a squirrel last year with a few on it. Pretty gross, but i hear it does nothing to the meat although i left it in the woods to let nature do as it wished.

Yea, I had a dog who had one. VERY VERY Disgusting. It was by his neck and we had to cover the hole with vaseline and when it came out to breath, we had to grab it. My wife called it a warble too.

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It's a bot fly larve, which is common in Gray & Fox Squirrels. I've even seen one under the hide of a Buck a few years back.

I believe that is cause to call yourself lucky.....

Though I have not seen them in squirrels I have found them in a rabbit once.You people who only eat store bought food would be surprised as to what is going down your gullet! It would make you vomit to know what is acceptable and allowed by the USDA in your so called clean food!

I never seen one on any animal I have killed but I saw a story on TV once where a couple guys went over to a rain forest in some distant country and a young feller came home ate up by skeeters then a couple of the skeeter bites grew and grew. A few weeks later they were open sores and hurt like heck he covered them with bandages and the next morning one had fell off the other still in tact when he removed the one a bot fly larvae was dead and stuck to the bandaid ! He then cover the other opening with vaseline like posted earlier and sure enough the 2nd wound had one in it as the larvae came to the surface he snatched it with tweezers and pulled a 1 1/2" worm the size of his ring finger outta the whole !!! Pretty nasty lil bugger LMAO ! It was cool to see on TV but I would hate to have one in my leg like he did ! I agree about the grocery there are alot of nasty things they allow in food !!! Choclate and peanut butter have some nasty things in them as well but it aint killed me yet LOL so I will keep eating em ! Not only are there hairs, bugs, and God only knows what else in our food that doesnt even count for the anti-biotics and steroids they feed the animals before they go to slaughter !!! I heard somewhere that the average chicken 20 yrs ago was 2 yrs old when slaughtered and now they are 6 months, and I remember a chicken leg back when I was a kid were small and now they are massive compared to back then ! I believe its all the steroids they are fed so they grow faster plus chicken breast has a ton more fat on them than back 20 yrs ago but h*ll thats just my 2 cents on the matter LOL !

I shot a gray once that had one in it's neck. He actually climbed down the tree to a limb just above me. He then proceeded to urinate on me. After shooting him and discovering the parasite, I figured he was wanting me to end his suffering. True story.

Yup, they're pretty common in squirrels most years. I used to toss the ones that had them, but ater hearing that they didn't harm the meat I started skinning the ones with the warbles also, and usually found no ill effects from them. Did have one that appeared to have some sort of infection evident in the meat, but that may have been a separate problem from the warble. I pitched that one, but have eaten many over the years that had been been carrying warbles, with no ill effects.