Spring Squirrel Season

[DaveS]

In my whole life I have only seen a "wolve" on a squirrel one time....in February. I don't let it stop me from hunting. I have seen more of them crawling out of deer noses, than on squirrels.

[Oh Shoot]

Do they have the wolves on them in the spring, or is that just an early fall affliction?

In my whole life I have only seen a "wolve" on a squirrel one time....in February. I don't let it stop me from hunting. I have seen more of them crawling out of deer noses, than on squirrels.

Weird to see one in winter. Maybe it just didn't hatch.

At any rate, they are just botfly larvae (horsefly, deer fly, etc, not sure which one), and as ugly and big as they are, they only embed under the squirrel's skin, I've never noticed them affecting the meat at all.

Seems like MOST of the spring squirrels I used to shoot as a kid/young man had them.

- OS

[whiskey]

I have seen 3 or 4 squirrels with them. All were opening weekends for fall seasons.

[Guest Jcochran88]

I am not sure but was told that you want find them in the spring only in late summer to fall. That being said I have never hunted squirrels in the spring. I am going to try this year for them if I can beat of the ticks.

[Oh Shoot]

I am not sure but was told that you want find them in the spring only in late summer to fall....

Hmmm, maybe it was early fall I used to see them all the time.

I haven't hunted since I was about 25, so I disremember.

- OS

[whiskey]

I am not sure but was told that you want find them in the spring only in late summer to fall. That being said I have never hunted squirrels in the spring. I am going to try this year for them if I can beat of the ticks.

Get some Permanone! I sprayed my hunting clothes the night before each turkey hunt this spring and I have found ZERO ticks on me this year. My hunting partner just used deep woods Off and he got ticks on him every trip.

I got covered in ticks last year because I was lazy about using the permanone. Never again. I don't want lyme disease

[I_Like_Pie]

Do they have the wolves on them in the spring, or is that just an early fall affliction?

Yes....this is what I want to know also. Usually only hunt them when it is cold because it kills those nasty things.

[Oh Shoot]

Yes....this is what I want to know also. Usually only hunt them when it is cold because it kills those nasty things.

Doesn't kill them. They leave the squirrel skin at certain stage, drop to the soil and complete their cycle into becoming flies.

- OS