Just chilling, looking for good deadfall and turning over flat rocks looking for small snakes and stuff, and I found three of them around the same spot. I only recognized them because one of them had a lining of bones on the outside. I was super excited to find one- then two more almost right beside it were fantastic! So of course I baggied them, brought them inside, washed hands, did research, contacted some vulture culture acquaintances….one of which brought up the larva thing.
So I picked up the baggie. It was crawling with them. Crawling.
My problem is this….I can’t unbaggie it to put it in the oven to bake them, and I’m afraid to put them in my mother’s freezer, even quadruple baggied, and I’m afraid if I leave it outdoors to soak, I’ll still be dealing with bugs when I haul everything up out of the water.
Nnnhhh…I used to be cool with bugs barring mosquitoes and fire ants (fire ants are hell), but since I moved to Ohio and have experienced all sorts of ridiculous and indiscriminate attacks from insects large, small, venomous, pincered, and in swarms, I HATE THEM NOW. IF I WERE A WINGED BIRD I WOULD FEAST UPON YOUR UNHOLY FLESH, YE SINNERS
The Carving Witch 