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projectfungi
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Slugs, snails and half rotten shrooms
#14539279 - 05/31/11 05:06 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've been wondering for a while now if I can get sick from eating shrooms that have been half eaten and slimed over by slugs and snails. How about those big over-mature half rotten shrooms?
I normally just put mine in the dehydrator and hope that the drying process will nullify and pathogens. What do you recommend?
Cheers.
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Re: Slugs, snails and half rotten shrooms [Re: projectfungi]
#14539284 - 05/31/11 05:09 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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projectfungi said: I've been wondering for a while now if I can get sick from eating shrooms that have been half eaten and slimed over by slugs and snails. How about those big over-mature half rotten shrooms?
I normally just put mine in the dehydrator and hope that the drying process will nullify and pathogens. What do you recommend?
Cheers.
no. (as in, don't eat rotten fungi)!
peace and love bloodworm
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projectfungi
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Re: Slugs, snails and half rotten shrooms [Re: bloodworm]
#14549254 - 06/02/11 02:59 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thanks, I'll avoid the rotten ones. How about slugs and snails? Can I catch anything from eating their slime covered shrooms?
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Re: Slugs, snails and half rotten shrooms [Re: projectfungi]
#14549263 - 06/02/11 03:05 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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projectfungi said: Thanks, I'll avoid the rotten ones. How about slugs and snails? Can I catch anything from eating their slime covered shrooms?
i don't really understand the question. if bugs are infesting your fungi, don't eat them. if a snail or slug just happened to climb on it, then you are fine. you should be wiping down your fungi with a damp paper towel regardless. don't however, run them under water to clean them. a wet paper towel is sufficient.
hope this helps.
peace and love bloodworm
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Re: Slugs, snails and half rotten shrooms [Re: bloodworm]
#14549270 - 06/02/11 03:07 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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also, use a fan or damp rid to dry your fungi. if they are actives, you could be losing some potency from the heat of the dehydrator. just a thought.
as always...
peace and love bloodworm
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Re: Slugs, snails and half rotten shrooms [Re: bloodworm]
#14550090 - 06/02/11 09:31 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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ive eaten cubes that have had worms.. i just let em dry under a fan and they crawl out! just a little extra protein if theyre dry i and i can ID them positively(not too hard with CUBES most of the time) then i keep em. if theyre ROTTEN tho, squishy and they smell bad... then i dont keep them. I have never gotten sick from eating mushrooms with any kind of insect or insect bite/mark on it.
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Re: Slugs, snails and half rotten shrooms [Re: SHRAMANN]
#14550349 - 06/02/11 11:05 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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SHRAMANN said: ive eaten cubes that have had worms.. i just let em dry under a fan and they crawl out! just a little extra protein if theyre dry i and i can ID them positively(not too hard with CUBES most of the time) then i keep em. if theyre ROTTEN tho, squishy and they smell bad... then i dont keep them. I have never gotten sick from eating mushrooms with any kind of insect or insect bite/mark on it.
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Re: Slugs, snails and half rotten shrooms [Re: bloodworm]
#14550569 - 06/02/11 12:04 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nothing wrong with a little bug sliime
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projectfungi
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Re: Slugs, snails and half rotten shrooms [Re: HarryL]
#14568055 - 06/06/11 04:57 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thanks a lot people. Maybe I was just being paranoid, but now my mind is at rest.
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Re: Slugs, snails and half rotten shrooms [Re: projectfungi]
#14568317 - 06/06/11 07:27 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Snails and slugs act as a vector in the liver fluke cycle.
The immature fluke lives in the gut of snails and slugs before they are eaten by birds, become mature and then enter the livers of mammals (after getting crapped out by the birds) usually swine, but can also affect humans.
so ya gotta ask yourself, do ya feel lucky? Well, do ya?
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Re: Slugs, snails and half rotten shrooms [Re: projectfungi]
#14573371 - 06/07/11 09:04 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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A nice trick to really get those little tenants running, is to put your pickings in a paper cup of relevant size, light up a cigarette and blow into the cup. Cover said cup and leave for a minute. Smokes'em out in no time!
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Re: Slugs, snails and half rotten shrooms [Re: projectfungi]
#15396701 - 11/20/11 08:07 AM (12 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have found slug shields to be very good and very useful. They don't wear out or wash away.
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Re: Slugs, snails and half rotten shrooms [Re: bloodworm]
#16302881 - 05/29/12 08:21 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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SLUG PARASITE OUTBREAK IN AUSTRALIA:
There is currently an outbreak in Sydney of a nasty parasite carried by slugs who have eaten rat droppings called 'rat lung worm' and it is often fatal, people have already died in Sydney from touching slug trials and inadvertently ingesting the slime which contains the parasite's eggs. If you are picking mushrooms that may have been near slugs exercise great caution, especially with decaying mushrooms. If you can't see any slug trails and the mushrooms look clean and hasn't hate a bite taken out of it, I'd still wash them and make a tea out of them (exposing psilocybin to boiling water does not seem to diminish potency dramatically, but may kill the parasite eggs) or think of other ways to sterilise, keeping in mind some small organisms/microbes can survive for 20 minutes in boiling water, I wonder what 20 minutes of boiling would do to psilocybin potency, has it been attempted? In any case exercise great caution this season to avoid this awful parasite.
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Re: Slugs, snails and half rotten shrooms [Re: urgent_news]
#16304419 - 05/30/12 01:43 AM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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urgent_news said: SLUG PARASITE OUTBREAK IN AUSTRALIA:
There is currently an outbreak in Sydney of a nasty parasite carried by slugs who have eaten rat droppings called 'rat lung worm' and it is often fatal, people have already died in Sydney from touching slug trials and inadvertently ingesting the slime which contains the parasite's eggs. If you are picking mushrooms that may have been near slugs exercise great caution, especially with decaying mushrooms. If you can't see any slug trails and the mushrooms look clean and hasn't hate a bite taken out of it, I'd still wash them and make a tea out of them (exposing psilocybin to boiling water does not seem to diminish potency dramatically, but may kill the parasite eggs) or think of other ways to sterilise, keeping in mind some small organisms/microbes can survive for 20 minutes in boiling water, I wonder what 20 minutes of boiling would do to psilocybin potency, has it been attempted? In any case exercise great caution this season to avoid this awful parasite.
It seems maybe this should go into a new thread, especially since a majority of the current discourse in the hunting forum is about eastern Australia. I don't think there are any mushrooms that are not near slugs.
Edit: I did a quick google search and found one article about someone who died two years ago after eating two slugs. The NSW health dept. fact sheet says that actually getting sick from this parasite is very rare.
Edited by koods (05/30/12 01:51 AM)
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