Yes, great advice up above know everything you can about your quarry and what can infect them...their diseases can become your disease.
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worms in rabbit
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Hi Yes this is common in warm weather in north east , I would not eat it , I guess this is one reason hunting season here is in fall when it is cooler . LOU
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Hey you got a Bonus you can actually eat these fly larvae.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botfly
The sixth episode of season one of the television series Beyond Survival, titled "The Inuit – Survivors of the Future", features survival expert Les Stroud and two Inuit guides hunting caribou on the northern coast of Baffin Island near Pond Inlet, Nunavut, Canada. Upon skinning and butchering of one of the animals, numerous larvae (presumably H. tarandi, although not explicitly stated) are apparent on the inside of the caribou pelt. Stroud and his two Inuit guides eat (albeit somewhat reluctantly) one larva each, with Stroud commenting that the larva "tastes like milk" and was historically commonly consumed by the Inuit people.[15]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botfly
The sixth episode of season one of the television series Beyond Survival, titled "The Inuit – Survivors of the Future", features survival expert Les Stroud and two Inuit guides hunting caribou on the northern coast of Baffin Island near Pond Inlet, Nunavut, Canada. Upon skinning and butchering of one of the animals, numerous larvae (presumably H. tarandi, although not explicitly stated) are apparent on the inside of the caribou pelt. Stroud and his two Inuit guides eat (albeit somewhat reluctantly) one larva each, with Stroud commenting that the larva "tastes like milk" and was historically commonly consumed by the Inuit people.[15]
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As others have posted the bot flies, they are quite visable in woodchucks, rabbits, and raccoons on Long Island. The small game season starts on Nov. !st, this is the latest start for NY state as a whole. The idea is the first frost supposedly is needed for the flies-larvae to vanish. They appear to run a time schedule rather than a temperature. In early June the flies are a indicator of an active woodchuck hole, some of the farms offer a bounty to the workers for woodchucks and rabbits. In October they are usually gone from the meat of the rabbits way before any frost. The workers don't eat them while the worms are present, while a European farmer soaks the meat in vinager with no hesitation..
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Raised in swamps of South Louisiana lived on rabbits. We never ate rabbits till our short winter.
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