They're taking advantage of the acorns falling and instead of taking the time to chew them up they're swallowing them whole!
I have no dea what the technical name is, but central PA slang for those things is pronounced "warble" I believe. If you kill the squirrel, shortly after a parasite type grub about a half inch long, and maybe 1/4 to 1/2" wide will crawl out. Typically once you get a few hard frosts, they clear up.
Ok that's just disgusting. Is the parasite eating the squirrel I wonder? Would it eventually kill it? This is a new one for me, never heard of this before.
Ain't those little buggers anoying as all heck. Sit there and just chatter at you all day. I know the deer aren't spooked by them, but just the same, wish they'd just leave.
They'er like something out of a fricken Monster movie. R J pretty much covered it, heard of them being called Wools or something like that also. Never seen them up north, only in the south.
I see this guy everytime I hunt my go-to stand, I'm thinking he may make a very nice mantel decoration... not to mention he's Huge!
http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/slansky/botfly/ABOTFLY/overview.htm EW EW EW EW EW i am rarely grossed out...i mean, i keep spiders and other such wierd things...but seriously ew...
I killed a buck in 95 and at the taxadermists shop, head laying on the floor one of these "wools" or also called "wolvs" came out of my bucks head. It was pretty disgusting needless to say the remainder of the deer went to the buzzards and the yotes.
