BIG PROBLEM!! Weevil??? LARVAE EXTRACTION PHOTO!!!

[Southern by choice]

Yay! yep they are big aren't they! nasty....
whenever I have seen them there was only one on the animal. I don't really know the answer to your question... maybe someone with more experience will have some suggestions!

 

[nstone630]

Got that ugly sucker!

Now just how to prevent it from happening again.

 

[nstone630]

 

[treeclimber233]

I don't think there is much you can do to prevent them except remove the larva and kill them. My rabbits used to get them. Just a few every summer. I even found one on my cat. Try removing one of those from a cat!!!!

 

[GD91]

I saw a woman on tv get one pulled out of her skull once gave me nightmares for weeks. It had burrowed under the skin & was sitting between the skin & the skull. She said she could feel it moving!

The botfly maggot is a nasty little bugger never had one here & don't want any either!

 

[alsea1]

Dang. I have not encountered that yet.
I clean up under the pens and put lime down to try and discourage flys.
But I don't know what you could do just short of building a screened enclosure for the rabbitry.

 

[zachbelle]

I know this is an old post but just wanted to post for anyone else looking for answers to this. I had this problem last summer it is a bot fly larvae we found one large one like the one in the picture and then a few smaller ones after checking her over. The Hoke is in the skin so that the larvae can breathe, we covered the hole with a big glob of Vasaline and it caused the larvae to start to back out to find air then grab with tweezers and pull out, take your time because if you break the larvae while it's still in the rabbit it can poison the rabbit and kill it. After we removed it I used a needle - less syringe and washed the wound out with peroxide then put TAO in the wound and it healed very quickly. We then moved the hutch off the ground and never had another problem with it, from what I have read the flies are attracted to the feces and then will lay eggs on the rabbit because it's a warm body, in out case having the hut on the ground even though we kept it clean there were still feces close enough to her to attract them. The eggs are little tiny off white spots so watch for them. After removing the larvae and giving the wound a day or so to heal I gave her a bath in dawn dish soap to remove any eggs to be safe then checked her regularly but as I said once off the ground never had an issue. Hope this helps anyone searching for answers on this

 

[zachbelle]

Oh and eventually if un treated they will fall off the rabbit on there own once they are done feeding but it takes a lot out of the rabbit as they are feeding on the rabbit. And when I first noticed it I was patting her and felt a lump almost felt like a small tumor and when I picked her up to examine it looked like a puncture wound I was to checking the cage for loose screw and nails sticking out before I noticed that there was an alien looking thing inside the hole! So if you notice something that looks like a puncture wound check inside..

 

[Pearce Pastures]

If DH's buns ever get this... Yeah, he will be on his own.