Comments on: Observers Stunned To Learn Of Fly That Ate A Moose! http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/08/15/observers-stunned-to-learn-of-fly-that-ate-a-moose/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=observers-stunned-to-learn-of-fly-that-ate-a-moose Black Bear Blog - The Politics of Hunting, Fishing and the Outdoors. Protecting our American Heritage. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom Remington http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/08/15/observers-stunned-to-learn-of-fly-that-ate-a-moose/#comment-9422 Tom Remington Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:07:54 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=3981#comment-9422 First off, I jest! Secondly, there probably are coy-dog/wolf-dogs running around in Florida and other states as well. Maine has had them for years, enough so that they are commonly referred to as a brush wolf. Once domestic dogs breeding with the coyote has been proven as a biological fact as well we know that wolf hybrid dogs are "let go" all the time. Mix and match and we got us a whole bunch of genetic diversification! The question is do we have genetic "exchange"! First off, I jest!

Secondly, there probably are coy-dog/wolf-dogs running around in Florida and other states as well. Maine has had them for years, enough so that they are commonly referred to as a brush wolf.

Once domestic dogs breeding with the coyote has been proven as a biological fact as well we know that wolf hybrid dogs are “let go” all the time.

Mix and match and we got us a whole bunch of genetic diversification! The question is do we have genetic “exchange”!

]]> By: jes http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/08/15/observers-stunned-to-learn-of-fly-that-ate-a-moose/#comment-9421 jes Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:56:52 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=3981#comment-9421 By the way, Tom, we already have something bordering on the wolf down here in FL...don't know if it's a coy-dog or wolf-dog, but I've seen several when I've been hunting..Do you think that is enough genetic diversification for the judge? Or that just doesn't count..... By the way, Tom, we already have something bordering on the wolf down here in FL…don’t know if it’s a coy-dog or wolf-dog, but I’ve seen several when I’ve been hunting..Do you think that is enough genetic diversification for the judge? Or that just doesn’t count…..

]]> By: jes http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/08/15/observers-stunned-to-learn-of-fly-that-ate-a-moose/#comment-9420 jes Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:51:22 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=3981#comment-9420 Surely you jest?! Surely you jest?!

]]> By: Tom Remington http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/08/15/observers-stunned-to-learn-of-fly-that-ate-a-moose/#comment-9419 Tom Remington Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:49:45 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=3981#comment-9419 Maybe we should consider introducing the moose to Florida? Maybe we should consider introducing the moose to Florida?

]]> By: jes http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/08/15/observers-stunned-to-learn-of-fly-that-ate-a-moose/#comment-9418 jes Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:40:00 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=3981#comment-9418 Actually, this would not have surprised me about 50 years ago, when we had the "screw worm fly". Of course, the moose would have had to migrated down to the southeast or southwest to have been susceptible to that fly, but they would do in a two ton bull on any day of the week. That was back before your time, Tom, back when cattlemen lost huge numbers to that ole fly....and the government finally went about to exterminate them....They sterilized millions of flies, with radiation, and released them all over the south of the U.S. I suppose they flew down every section line, since they flew over my place and dropped little cardboard boxes, which opened when they hit the ground, releasing the flies.....As best I can remember, that was back in the late or mid 50's... Any animal that had a scratch on it was open ground for that fly...one fly laid enough eggs to kill a calf from the ambilical cord (which was an open wound) in a matter of days...and a full grown cow or bull would die from being eaten inside out in a matter of less than two weeks, if untreated! And a lot of cattle stayed in the scrubs through the year. So, as unlike is it sounds today, fifty years ago, that would not have been an uncommon occurance...if you had a moose in Florida, anyway! (there have been buffalo and elk brought down....but I haven't seen a moose down here, yet! Actually, this would not have surprised me about 50 years ago, when we had the “screw worm fly”. Of course, the moose would have had to migrated down to the southeast or southwest to have been susceptible to that fly, but they would do in a two ton bull on any day of the week.
That was back before your time, Tom, back when cattlemen lost huge numbers to that ole fly….and the government finally went about to exterminate them….They sterilized millions of flies, with radiation, and released them all over the south of the U.S. I suppose they flew down every section line, since they flew over my place and dropped little cardboard boxes, which opened when they hit the ground, releasing the flies…..As best I can remember, that was back in the late or mid 50′s…

Any animal that had a scratch on it was open ground for that fly…one fly laid enough eggs to kill a calf from the ambilical cord (which was an open wound) in a matter of days…and a full grown cow or bull would die from being eaten inside out in a matter of less than two weeks, if untreated! And a lot of cattle stayed in the scrubs through the year.

So, as unlike is it sounds today, fifty years ago, that would not have been an uncommon occurance…if you had a moose in Florida, anyway! (there have been buffalo and elk brought down….but I haven’t seen a moose down here, yet!

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