This awful creature was, according to my partner, found under or black walnut tree, attached to or emerging from the neck of a very-recently killed bunny that the dog had (killed within the last ~15m). Any idea what it is? More pics available.
It’s not smooth like a slug/leech, but has a textured surface. It looks like a grub, but what would a grub be doing attached to a bunny? It has an obvious mouth and anus. She described the mouth part as “hexagonal”, which she saw open while it was alive, coming off of or out of the Bunny’s neck (it was in or by by a wound it didn’t necessarily inflict).
I think it’s probably just congealed evil and should be thrown into a fire, along with everything it touched except the puppy, and that’s how it’s going to get me.
My opinion is obviously tongue-in-cheek, but what is this really?
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You nailed it. It was emerging because the host died.
Torture it to death.
Calm down IDF.
Oh god. Flashbacks to middle school
Damn if that’s a Cuterebra I don’t wanna know the Uglierebra.
I’ll let myself out.
No you can stay.
Thanks, that was a rabbit hole I didn’t need.
Rabbit hole? Phrasing.
You Savage.
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Also, the hole left in the living meat of the rabbit when you pull the botfly out.
Why, why the fuck would I search for images of the Cuterebra and then zoom in right before bed?
I don’t recommend doing an image search on “botfly”
I recommend everone to heed this advice.
To hear Jeremy Clarksson talk about it, watch the Top Gear Bolivia Special
I love watching them be removed! Must be such a relief.
Start an iNaturalist account and share your gross bug with the scientific community. I’ve seen a couple people suggesting Google lens for identification, but for plants and animals it’s fun to make the data count for something.
That, my friend, is a wise admonition, and I wish you many fake internet points, and the clarity to not only know, but to also feel that they don’t matter.
Even if you don’t contribute, it’s fun to play around in map mode. Go see what lives in Equatorial Guinea. Type in your favorite shark. Etcetera.
Swedish salt liquorice, I can’t remember the Swedish name for it though. It’s an acquired taste.
Now, if I every try it, I’ll think of bot flies the whole time.
I’m concerned that’s a Kroger container, what state are you in? I thought bot flies were a equatorial thing, fucking global warming
They’re in the south-south, but the ones that go for rabbits (and not people) can make it all the way up to New York.
Don’t you all have Google Lens? It’s correct on stuff like this 90% of the time.
In Android it takes 2 seconds to search by image:
- Open recent apps list while this photo is open.
- Long-press the photo in the app preview
- Choose Google Lens from the menu.
- Select just the portion you want to ID.
- Read that it’s a bot fly larva.
Thanks, but… I posted here, it worked, and I got some human interaction out of the deal.
Holy cow how large is this thing? Is that a really small butter knife? 😮
No. If anything, it’s a fairly large butter knife.
The specimen of raw evil was, at a guess, about an inch and a quarter.
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