What kind of worms? Are these ?

[tiny's taxiderm]

These worms were crawling out of my deer head, shot the deer yesterday and put head in back of Ranch truck, when I first spotted them a few hours later there was a worm in each nostril appearing to be coming out, this morning there are 9 worms, any clue?


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[Humper]

Botfly

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botfly

[okrattler]

Looks like bot fly larvae. I don't know......That's disgusting whatever it is.

[waterdog]

Most hunters that have harvested any number of white-tailed deer have unfortunately found nasal bots. At first glance, what a hunter encounters looks like a large maggot. And it basically is, and they live in the cavities of the nose and mouth. Nasal bots are the larvae of a specific kind of fly that belongs in the genus Cephenemyia. Deer biologists actually find them in a high percentage of whitetail deer, particularly when a thorough examination of the head is conducted. From my experience, white-tailed deer in Texas are much more likely to have nasals bots than not.

[sharkhunter]

As said above bot fly. Deer have a hard time with them. They won't hurt anything.

[cricman]

That big one may not be Boone and Crockett, but it's definitely Lugosi and Karloff all day long!!! It may score 130+. I'd cape it and get it mounted!


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[Charles]

Botfly

Pretty tasty with some S&P

[tiny's taxiderm]

Thank yall, so the meat ain't hurt... I've killed lots of deer in my day and this is a first for me

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[Duke1227]

Wolves, that's what the old timers call them...

[Jaybo31]

I don't know the last time I seen a deer WITHOUT them in their nose

[Texas Grown]

9 seems like a lot from what I've seen. Bet that deer had the sniffles bad all the time.

[txtimetravler]

And prolly shook his head a lot.

...meat is spoiled. I'll pick it up.

[lovemylegacy]

Botfly larvae...we called them wolves when I was a kid

[dustoffer]

And prolly shook his head a lot.

...meat is spoiled. I'll pick it up.

Nasal bots---sometimes you'll see them scratching the side of their nose with their hind foot then "blowing" but not like an alarm blow. Most common--


Eeeewwwwww---gross!

https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrT6VxH601Y9VwA8RoPxQt.;_ylu=X3oDMTByNWU4cGh1BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=Whitetail+Deer+Nasal+Bots&fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&hspart=adk&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt

[BTLowry]

Funny this popped up

Down at Chap last weekend and they had brought a doe in and I asked about nasal bots in the brush country
The tech was taking tissue samples for CWD and this is what he found about the time I asked


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Said they were fairly common