Buck With Hornet In His Nose?

[Sliverslinger]

This is from my game camera today. Never seen a deer doing this before! He was sitting there eating some apples for about 15 minutes when all of a sudden this. My best guess is he got stung in the nose and couldn’t get it out. He keeps it going off in the distance the whole time.

Anyone else have a guess as to what happened?

[WapitiTalk1]

LOL, yep. Saw a WT doe in Montana years ago doing the exact same thing. Deduced it was a sting in the snout after 25 or so sneezes.

[buckcanyonlodge]

Possibly a hornet. The deer around the house do that at certain times of the year. There is a little black fly that pesters the crap out of them and when they succeed at getting up their nose they go crazy...sneezing , blowing , digging at their nose, and running all over the place.

[NOCK NOCK]

Not sure why but that made me giggle. 

[bigmacc]

About 1962 or 3. I was with my dad and we were watching a bachelor bunch of about 9 bucks if I remember right. We watched them for an hour or so, planning a route to get into the draw they were feeding in. Snow on the ground, about a foot. Dad told me to go into an adjoining creek bottom and when half way in start side hilling and I would pop right up on top of them, he said at that point “ take your pick”. I did what he said.

I did pop up to see a bunch of bucks! In fact, at my age all I seen was horns. When I crested the bench they all looked at me, I shouldered my rifle and fired. When I picked out my “dandy” all I seen was birds!! The big buck with all the “antlers “ turned out to be a little 2 by 3 with a bunch of birds on his back and antlers 😆 My dad watched the whole thing from about 500 yards away, he chuckled. When I got back he said I should take up bird hunting 😆

[BearCreekCookBook]

Could be a bot fly, nasty creatures.

[bigmacc]

Could be a bot fly, nasty creatures.

Pretty much what I was thinking 👍Yep, nasty.

[pianoman9701]

Could be a bot fly, nasty creatures.

Pretty much what I was thinking 👍Yep, nasty.

We have bot flies here? I thought they were tropical. Damn Inslee!

[LDennis24]

Yeah I was thinking bot fly as well

[pianoman9701]

Well, that sucks.

[Macs B]

I had a really good black lab a few years back.  He had a habit of laying under the apple trees and eating apples till he looked like a stuffed sausage.  He started having seizures, for know apparent reason.  Finally the vet figured out it was the bees in the dropped apples stinging him and the venom he ingested from the ones that didn't sting him that caused the seizures.