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CureCat
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Re: Help!! Maggots!! [Re: moshroom]
#5702883 - 06/02/06 03:53 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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The ones I picked were fine specimens, without any visible larvae infestation. Then, within 24hrs while I was printing, all these nasty bugs started emerging.
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eris
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Re: Help!! Maggots!! [Re: CureCat]
#5702901 - 06/02/06 04:08 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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They can hide well in the gills too.. ever laid a bunch of caps out on paper for a print, to return later and see a bunch of these little tiny fast bugs running all around on the paper?
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Bread
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Re: Help!! Maggots!! [Re: CureCat]
#5702910 - 06/02/06 04:15 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I started off with this batch, mostly pretty nice looking. Everything was fine for a couple of days and then they started popping out one by one.

I know I should have cleared out sooner (but I couldn't), but seven days later this is what was left behind (mostly dried up thankfully):

And a close up:

And here's one of them still fresh:

YESSUP's photo above is great!
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Mr_Psilocin
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Re: Help!! Maggots!! [Re: Bread]
#5702953 - 06/02/06 05:24 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Next time use a fan to dry them or somthing like "damp-rid"
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doodoomaster
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Quote:
Mr_Psilocin said: Next time use a fan to dry them or somthing like "damp-rid"
No one has givin this guy a drying method worth piss except this one and the word "or" still messes it up. When used in conbination, fans and damp-rid is the cheapest, most simple, most effective way of drying.
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Linja



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Thanks for your help everybody, now I'm confused as to whether to eat them or not. Some of them had a fair few maggots in them, and I tossed 'em, but some only had 1 or 2. I'm still letting them dry, and they're doing so nicely. Thanks for all your drying tips, but I don't really have a fan handy. Just wondering, if they're rotting, would they still dry? I'm just confused as to how to tell if they're rotten or not, some obviously were, all brown and slimy, but most seem fine.
Yessup, none of my mushrooms looked like that, that's just crazy and I would never eat that. And for some reason, the maggots aren't eating through the stalk, in fact, I haven't found a maggot in any of the stalks, only embedded in the caps.
I'm just looking through them now, there's still a few maggots in some of them. From the outside they look perfectly fine, but inside there's freaking disgusting maggots. They look exactly like the one's in Yessup's picture.
Now, I just need a really straight answer: Will eating these little bastards make me sick? Some people say it will, some people say they're actually nutritional, I don't know what to believe. I need some advice on this batch: Keep drying them, then just mash it up and pretend there were never maggots inside? Or just throw the whole lot out. Currently I'm picking each one apart and taking the maggots out. Is there anyway to kill all the maggots?
And no, I seriously don't have a problem with eating maggots so long as there are no health implications. It's gross, but I'm sure it'll be worth it.
-Linja
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doodoomaster
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Re: Help!! Maggots!! [Re: Linja]
#5703117 - 06/02/06 07:38 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I am not sure if indeed they will make you sick or not. But I will say that hit is usally a lot easier to find more mushies then it is to pay doctor bills.
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Linja



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Hmm, I've just chopped up all the mushrooms. I removed the stalks, all of which were find, and have kept them seperate, and put all the caps into a bowl, throwing out the shit ones, and have chopped them all up to tiny amounts. I figure this will help prevent the maggots from eating any more of my precious find. They will have nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. I extracted many maggots manually, but now I think I've done the right thing. Would chopping the caps and spreading them out also cause them to dry faster than just leaving whole mushroom's out? I imagine it would, because a greater surface area is being exposed to the air.
Also, some of the caps on my other find are discolouring, going a bluish kinda colour, is this due to drying or rotting? They look fine inside, and are drying, not slimy or wet. Thanks again.
-Linja
Edited by Linja (06/02/06 07:53 AM)
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CureCat
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Re: Help!! Maggots!! [Re: Linja]
#5703322 - 06/02/06 08:59 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Would chopping the caps and spreading them out also cause them to dry faster than just leaving whole mushroom's out? I imagine it would, because a greater surface area is being exposed to the air."
Yes, you are correct! But I was unclear as to your method of containment there after- are you storing them to dry in a bowl?? You seem like a fairly logical person, so I'd assume that you already know that putting them all in a bowl will almost definitely cause them to rot. For the exact reason you stated above, storing them on top and next to one another in a bowl would decrease surface area exposed to the air. I'm guessing you laid the pieces out on newspaper or something...?
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mjshroomer
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Re: Help!! Maggots!! [Re: Linja]
#5703370 - 06/02/06 09:30 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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If you really want to see how this works with the fruit fly larvae then read this exciting essay my me,
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The Shit, The Flies, The Spores, The Shrooms and the Ants:
http://mushroomjohn.com/theshit1.htm
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doodoomaster
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Re: Help!! Maggots!! [Re: mjshroomer]
#5703703 - 06/02/06 11:18 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Without a decent amount of air movement they will just rot and get nasty. I would assume they are pretty gross with hours of stagnent air. If you are able to find more mushies.....do it.
Find a fan!! I dun knoe wheres yall at but 'round here we got all kihnds of fans.
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