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Offline knob221

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Mosquitos and Meat Care
« on: August 06, 2024, 01:36:20 PM »
Mosquitos are terrible this year in some of the alpine areas. I am doing some August bear hunting in areas where they are thick. From your experience, do mosquitoes feed on exposed meat as I would assume? Can it affect the meat? Not a few mosquitos, I'm talking about hundreds if not thousands of bites which could reasonably be anticipated on a quarter between butchering, hanging, and packing out from the backcountry. Any tips to prevent it?

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Re: Mosquitos and Meat Care
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2024, 02:17:57 PM »
I've never experienced mosquitos feeding on dead meat. I believe their victims needs to be breathing to be considered.
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Re: Mosquitos and Meat Care
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2024, 06:15:47 PM »
I noticed a crazy amount of mosquitos this year so far. Especially while tending to my bear late evening. The bear seemed to attract them but then they keyed onto me. No worries about the meat. Just yourself. Even the thermacell wasn't cutting it.
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Re: Mosquitos and Meat Care
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2024, 10:31:12 PM »
I've never experienced mosquitos feeding on dead meat. I believe their victims needs to be breathing to be considered.

Mosquitos key in on CO2, which is hopefully something your bear isn't emitting when you start butchering it  :chuckle:

However, you will be, so they will likely be present.  I've killed deer in some of the most most mosquito-infested muskeg imagineable, and found that once you get the hide off the beast they forget about it and just dip their straws into the hunter.

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Re: Mosquitos and Meat Care
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2024, 10:42:10 PM »
I've never experienced mosquitos feeding on dead meat. I believe their victims needs to be breathing to be considered.

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