Speaking of squirrels. Son Wyatt and I saw a bumper crop of Abert's squirrels while scouting deer and while muzzleloader hunting for deer. The season opens in Nov and if we don't get snowed out, will plan to go and post some photos here if successful. Probably would be new species to a lot of you fellows.
-plc-

Those fly larvae are called warbles. They can ruin cattle hides when numerous as they come out their backs leaving a large hole. Rabbits seem to collect them under the neck. I once bagged a cottontail in AZ with one up it's nose. Very gross! Kind of like bots but different.

=Richard Flanders;116262]Nice Destry! Maybe that first one had worms. I killed one once that had a huge knot on the top of his head that turned out to be some kind of worm the size of the end of my little finger when I cut it out. It was something like the bot flies that infest our caribou up here and which bore in under the skin when the eggs hatch in the fur. The one I found had a breathing hole in the skin which is likely what you were seeing or it may have already have matured and crawled out and was healing over. They're harmless but definitely gross under any circumstances.[/QUOTE]

I've heard of the squirrels you mention.

I had in my mind one time that I was going to try and kill every species of squirrel east of the Mississippi. But unfortunately at least two are protected, so that project kind of died on the vine.

which ones are protected destrey...charlie

I can't remember the names. There's one in Florida and one on the Eastern Shore of Maryland/Virginia.

Maby we can all plead ignorance if we shoot one,or two,maby three.

I'll never forget the time I heard the warden says: "Ignorance of the law is no excuse"

He was writing us tickets at the time.

the warden has the upper hand when he gets thatpencil and ticket book out for sure...what was you ignorance about mite save us some grief some time... or we have may have been educated with a ticket too.. charlie

Destry,
The tree rats on the Eastern Shore are Delmarva Fox Squirrels.

Good luck with the squirrel hunting, Peter and Wyatt. The Aberts squirrels are really pretty with the tufted ears.

Dennis