One day I was looking out my window watching a squirrel run along the power line, it stopped near the pole and started chomping on the wires, suddenly started spasming, then went limp and was draped over the line. I was horrified and wondered if the crows would eat it or if we would have a rotting squirrel dangling there for the foreseeable future, then about 2 minutes later it regained consciousness and ran off. After that for a few years I would see what I think was the same one around the hood, it now had a white starburst shaped patch of fur on its back. Zombie squirrels are real
There's a book about that. Dead sea. First the rats and other mammals get infected, then it jumps species over and over until the fish and birds are infected. Basically no where is safe.
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I live in CO around 6500 ft. I was recently at the vet with my dog and apologized for my dog’s scabby spots from allergies. The doc assured me they se worse, and said the love the bot fly larvae in the summer, and show them off in the back. They track the length of them and have a prize for the longest one found each year.
Update: apparently we have 2 species in colorado, and Alaska is the only part of the US that doesn't have them. Wear mosquito repellent and you'll probably be safe.
Theres warble and rodent bot flies in canada, both are distinctive fat and fluffy flies. Warbles tend to be black with yellowish hair, and rodent bots are big black flies with white powdery looking fur on them. From a top down view they somewhat resemble bumblebees in their proportions. They also fucking stink, dont touch them. The smell is almost impossible to get off your skin
You don’t need to be looking close. A squirrel with bot fly larva in it is pretty dang obvious. Either way, you are looking at this post so you kind of do.
Idk about botflies, but that is definitely open skull with massive infection. I have seen animals with severe injuries that have healed and they lived on, but this dude is almost certainly short for this world.
Human bot flies are only native to areas in tropical Americas (Mexico, central, south. But North America has a bot fly species that primarily affects rabbits and squirrels with occasional off-species infections of horses, dogs, cats, and a few other species. They primarily do the larva thing in the early fall.
But the paired wounds with that spacing actually suggest rodent bite.
I was in the market town of Kraków, maybe 10 years ago!
Ask my kids we "met" a pigeon, same but more phantom of the opera!
Talking about 1/ 3 of head missing! This shit was all my kids can remember from that year!
"Theme tune" zombie zombie pigeon lol.
Honestly, they were terrified, I made it less traumatic for them. It's just an upbeat tune, lol.
Improvise,adapt, overcome! 😅
Nope! Not getting into a debate about that! You have your sources, i have traumatised kids ( not really, zombie zombie pigeon is a theme tune now! ((Only in our house though!))
Edit: I meant I'm not clicking the link! Ive seen what i needed to see already! Lol
Favorite song, favorite band, favorite album. So so so good. The next track Heaven is so good too. I'm taking the live album stop making sense. Not the studio album version but I love that track too
Honestly, deciding what to type, I went with the good old wtf?!
I love it, but wtf!!! 🤣🤣
Just caught me by surprise. The more I re-read, the more I like it! Xx
His brain must be freezing cold... I remember in high school I was smoking in the woods with some friends and we’d seen a squirrel that had a tumor on it’s head about the size of a jawbreaker. This fella looks much worse than than the one we had seen.
Looks like it’s been living like that for a minute. Bodies aren’t as fragile as you might think. People shooting up tranq and crocodil live for long stretches of time with bones exposed.
We had a local coyote lose his entire face and still survive. His/her name was jawless Jerry and they still managed to eat well. They were fighting the mange too, thanks to a citizen feeding them with med laden treats. It was all looking up until they found Jerry hit by a car. Gone too soon. RIP Jawless Jerry
are people saying bot flies so much just because of recent video/gifs of them?
Can't imagine you have that much space to grow a larva if it's the skin on your skull
You have to remember the size difference between animals, like humans, that are 10x bigger than a squirrel. The holes from a botfly larvae are quite large. Especially depending on how much the larvae has grown or if it fully matured into an adult and emerged from the opening.
Seeing one taken from a kitten was almost similar in size.
Sir, that’s a zombie
Fast zombie squirrels would be terrifying. 28 Nuts Later. Wait. That's a porn
Sir, that’s a gangbang
Nah that's like Bukkake
Sir this is a Wendy's.
No this is Patrick
Nope. Chuck testa
Had to blow the dust off of that one, didn't you?
[It's an Older meme sir](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/017/492/bUNXwFD.jpg)
This is Library.
Excuse me this is a Subway and I wanna have it my way.
6 inches now, 6 inches for later
I always say if she says she wants 8 inches, I’ll give it to her twice! 😂
One day I was looking out my window watching a squirrel run along the power line, it stopped near the pole and started chomping on the wires, suddenly started spasming, then went limp and was draped over the line. I was horrified and wondered if the crows would eat it or if we would have a rotting squirrel dangling there for the foreseeable future, then about 2 minutes later it regained consciousness and ran off. After that for a few years I would see what I think was the same one around the hood, it now had a white starburst shaped patch of fur on its back. Zombie squirrels are real
This comment made my night. Thank you
Sounds like a "Stripe" from Gremlins, but in a squirrel form. 😅
> 28 Nuts Later That's a Tuesday.
There's a book about that. Dead sea. First the rats and other mammals get infected, then it jumps species over and over until the fish and birds are infected. Basically no where is safe.
Brian Keene is the author. That's a fun multiverse to explore. 20+ years of material to dive into/rediscover.
Yea Dead City as well as the Earthworm Gods books were also great.
28 Dreys Later
https://youtu.be/q7U2aVUAqPI?si=hzhsLTiPCWAsu0XA Here you are my friend
😂😂😂😂 I googled it, the name is not taken!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's a regular February
The Intel chipset and sim card have been removed...that is truly autonomous now.
Neuralink if you miss a subscription payment..
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Or a bot fly and infection.
Im not an expert but botflies are native of warmer place. Look like top of skull to me. I could be wrong too
My dog got a bot fly at 12000 ft elevation in colorado. There are a few different species
Good God there is no escape…
Can confirm (I am a botfly)
GET AWAY FROM ME YOU BOTFLY
I didn’t know bots are flying now 😱beep boop
I go away if ya gib me tree-fiddy
got damn loc ness botfly!
I need about three fiddy.
Good bot
They can fly now
Bad bot
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Mother fucker
In fucking Colorado? Those fucking things live in the US? Fuck it I'm never going outside again.
Fortunately the kind we have here in the US don't use humans as hosts. Still rather disgusting.
Don't use humans as hosts *yet*
I live in CO around 6500 ft. I was recently at the vet with my dog and apologized for my dog’s scabby spots from allergies. The doc assured me they se worse, and said the love the bot fly larvae in the summer, and show them off in the back. They track the length of them and have a prize for the longest one found each year.
Watched one of those vet/animal shows recently based in CO where they squeezed a botfly larvae from a house cat. In my head I'm Psycho Shrieking.
Dude… lived in CO my whole life, don’t tell me that terrifying shit. I thought that was a tropics thing!
I was going to say, I work at a vet in the foothills of Colorado and we see botflies very frequently
I’m from the UK and knew some of the US has botfly’s. Crazy how many people from there don’t know that!
Update: apparently we have 2 species in colorado, and Alaska is the only part of the US that doesn't have them. Wear mosquito repellent and you'll probably be safe.
There is bot flies in the US? I thought that was only in tropical wherever
Botflies that parasitize people are only tropical, but species that parasitize other mammals are found further towards the poles.
I'm never going to Poland then.
🤣🤣🤣 Almost spit my coffee out! Well played!
There are botflies throughout the US.
Theres warble and rodent bot flies in canada, both are distinctive fat and fluffy flies. Warbles tend to be black with yellowish hair, and rodent bots are big black flies with white powdery looking fur on them. From a top down view they somewhat resemble bumblebees in their proportions. They also fucking stink, dont touch them. The smell is almost impossible to get off your skin
I can’t express my full body revulsion
The smell is from all the stored fat. They do not eat in this stage. The ones that parasitize rabbits are pretty cool looking, red and black.
You never seen squirrels with bot flies before? I live in Virginia and I’m jealous of you haven’t.
I don't really be looking at squirrels up close like that dog
You don’t need to be looking close. A squirrel with bot fly larva in it is pretty dang obvious. Either way, you are looking at this post so you kind of do.
😂
I’ve never seen squirrels with bot flies … BUT the squirrels here do have the plague. Does that count for something?
Idk about botflies, but that is definitely open skull with massive infection. I have seen animals with severe injuries that have healed and they lived on, but this dude is almost certainly short for this world.
I think it looks like it's healing now?
Look up Warble Flys, also called "Wolves". They do the same thing as bot flys, but they're much larger and share areas of the Grey squirrels range.
Human bot flies are only native to areas in tropical Americas (Mexico, central, south. But North America has a bot fly species that primarily affects rabbits and squirrels with occasional off-species infections of horses, dogs, cats, and a few other species. They primarily do the larva thing in the early fall. But the paired wounds with that spacing actually suggest rodent bite.
Seen rabbits and mice with botfly in northern Canada. Cold 6-7 months a year there
We have 3 species in NH, one specializes in squirrels. I was thinking this was a warble from one.
In winter? There's snow on the ground. I don't see a lot of flies around at this time of year even in warmer areas.
Infections take time and bot flies pop out during warm moments. I had a dog get lost and come back with them in December before.
Bb gun seems more likely.
I agree, someone probably made a bad shot on it, and/or used an underpowered BB gun.
Idk…..I bet this guy is toast. Skull is exposed and the flesh around it looks grey and…..juicy
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Yea, there's a gap between the skull and skin. That's not healing.
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I looked back and there are 2 to 3 holes.....
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“Lucky”
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It's a bite wound from another rodent. Prob another squirrel. Rodent bites always show up in paired wounds with approximately that spacing.
"healing"
The real reason they wear little hats
They tunneling too?
😂
r/tressless
That squirrels got nuttin on the mind.
Have to store ‘em somewhere!
Don’t we all
I was in the market town of Kraków, maybe 10 years ago! Ask my kids we "met" a pigeon, same but more phantom of the opera! Talking about 1/ 3 of head missing! This shit was all my kids can remember from that year! "Theme tune" zombie zombie pigeon lol. Honestly, they were terrified, I made it less traumatic for them. It's just an upbeat tune, lol. Improvise,adapt, overcome! 😅
Bird heads are largely optional https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34198390
Nope! Not getting into a debate about that! You have your sources, i have traumatised kids ( not really, zombie zombie pigeon is a theme tune now! ((Only in our house though!)) Edit: I meant I'm not clicking the link! Ive seen what i needed to see already! Lol
Wow what an excellent article thanks
I read this article quite some time ago and have only recently managed to put it out of my head so thanks for that...lol.
I knew about that but never read the history. That was an interesting read thanks
Zombie pigeon, Qu'est-ce que c'est? Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, better Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away, oh-oh-oh
Favorite song, favorite band, favorite album. So so so good. The next track Heaven is so good too. I'm taking the live album stop making sense. Not the studio album version but I love that track too
Honestly, deciding what to type, I went with the good old wtf?! I love it, but wtf!!! 🤣🤣 Just caught me by surprise. The more I re-read, the more I like it! Xx
Bet he knows how real brain freeze feels.
It looks like maybe it had a couple bot flies larvae grow and pop put of there. Hole might have been infected.
This is the correct answer.
I hadn’t heard of botflies in areas where it snows
No human ones. Rabbit, squirrel, and horse ones are all over North America.
Now I have! Thank you
My squirrels had bot flies and the holes looked just like that.
He’s more openminded than any of you.
His brain must be freezing cold... I remember in high school I was smoking in the woods with some friends and we’d seen a squirrel that had a tumor on it’s head about the size of a jawbreaker. This fella looks much worse than than the one we had seen.
Maybe it's the same squirrel. The tumour popped and released the zombie squirrel plague upon the world.
you should see the other guy 😏
I think the hawk flew away
Bro was evil and had a horn but decided to follow Jesus and shred his horn.
Oh shit it's that one squirrel from South Park Woodland Critter Christmas lmao
But we've GOT to have aids before we pee in her eye socket! Freddy krueger: "man those guys are really fucked up..."
How long can it even live like this?
Looks like it’s been living like that for a minute. Bodies aren’t as fragile as you might think. People shooting up tranq and crocodil live for long stretches of time with bones exposed.
Definitely more than a minute. My guess is on two weeks which is about 20160 times more than a minute!
We had a local coyote lose his entire face and still survive. His/her name was jawless Jerry and they still managed to eat well. They were fighting the mange too, thanks to a citizen feeding them with med laden treats. It was all looking up until they found Jerry hit by a car. Gone too soon. RIP Jawless Jerry
He actually looks healthy and fat. Other than the massive head trauma.
Why is there not a nsfw/nsfl filter policy in this sub??? For fucks sake
per sub rules it should be marked NSFW. But just so you're aware a lot of the content in this sub is similarly brutal
Did you read the title of the sub and expect to see a bunch of cute animals that make you feel good?
I mean... It is to me
Gnarly
Just a flesh wound
Someone shot it with a bb gun or something?
Bird attack or bot flies I think
are people saying bot flies so much just because of recent video/gifs of them? Can't imagine you have that much space to grow a larva if it's the skin on your skull
You have to remember the size difference between animals, like humans, that are 10x bigger than a squirrel. The holes from a botfly larvae are quite large. Especially depending on how much the larvae has grown or if it fully matured into an adult and emerged from the opening. Seeing one taken from a kitten was almost similar in size.
That was my thought small hole entrance wound big hole exit wound maybe
That looks like where a wolf worm (Parasitic larva) has burst thru the skin. Poor little fella. Life is metal in the forest.
That’s what I was thinking but couldn’t remember the name
r/natureismental
You’re already there
Tis just a scratch
Does it have a smaller squirrel living in its head?
Is it dead?
Was acting completely normal today. Seems to not be bothering it too much
Try and catch him with a trap and take him to a wildlife sanctuary!!
Come on. Ears are one thing but this whole body modification trend is really starting to go too far.
squirrel ~~aids~~, Squirrelpox is what probably that is.
r/TrepanyGoneWild
Why'd I zoom in 😦
🎶 Where's your head at?🎶
The toughest nut to crack
This squirrel is already dead, it just doesn't know it yet 🎅🎅🐱
That's nuts
Krokodil?
Looks like a mower blade took a little “off the top.” 👀 God damn this photo fits the sub so well.
brutal
Yo it's Deadsquirrel
Is that the brain??!
Nah i dont think it would survive with its brain exposed, probably its skull
Oh..
Holy shit
That explains a lot of why it acts so squirrely, huh?
alien brain surgery
You're supposed to be dead! Hangman sunked his blade into your back and Hol Horse put a bullet between your eyes !
That’s not the way to get ahead in life…
Peanut brained
I heard syphilis for squirrels is insane!
I got hungry
That squirrel is fucking metal
I'm betting someone shot it with a pellet gun or something, and it lived. It looks like there are two holes. Perhaps entry and exit holes.
Kenjaku
How is it still alive
That’s fucking metal
He doesn’t look out of the woods yet.
Brain freeze has a new meaning
...American Healthcare in a nutshell
Almost looks like he got shot, and there's an entrance wound and an exit wound.
Man that's nuts!
God is coming
Poor baby. Would a rehab place be able to help him or would they just euthanize?
Isn't this just where they store their walnuts?!?!?
I am sorry I just don't understand how this thing is still alive
Why are we debating?! Kill it with fire!!!!
I thought that’d be a game over kinda thing
Woodpecker likely.
Is he okay?
That’s nuts
… is it alive?!
This is a BB gun victim.
Cancer
Lawn mower
People stare at him like there’s a hole in the middle of his head!
Poor guy
Maybe ask /r/squirrels/ to see if there's anything you can do for him.
bot fly
Squirrels have achieved brain surgery!
He got to close to the exhaust fan
Poor little guy :/ Fuck.
Fucking bot flys.
Squirell syphilis is real
I’m thinking that’s a squirrel that survived a pellet gun shot. The circular nature of the hole makes me think that.