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EADD 2012 Official UK Mushroom Thread

I'm not going picking again after finding out most shrooms are infested with maggots.
 
fucking LOL ^

Botfly ... all shrooms have insects or creepies in ... if you lay them out neatly in lines on a brown piece of parcel paper ... those little white maggots crawl off ... you can see them ... they die within 24-48 hours during the drying process.

it's easy to check your liberties to see if maggots are still there because of the dark brown colour of the gills. They instantly start crawling out if there's any in there ... obv they aren't gonna fancy a drying lib, so they instinctively must crawl out as the moisture starts to disappear

I'm a veggie Botfly, so I really don't wanna be munching on maggots either, but it's all about how your drying process is. I've got a bit of an anal system and line every one up like matchsticks ... and it's much easier to check everyone and take off any stray bits of grass n stuff (and maggots too) with a pair of long tweezers ...

For anyone reading who's just started picking for the first time and is getting panicy at the M word, they're only very tiny ones .. like 2 millimeters, so nothing to worry about ... and if you did end up eating 'em, they're just a bit of added protein really

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also .. 'infested' ?! WTF ... this surely must of been something you've read rather than experienced ... i've been picking for years and infested is just looney talk.

There are pickers the length and breadth of the country foraging for wild mushrooms of all kinds at this time of year. Michelin starred restaurants usually use wild mushrooms at this time of the year ... Forests all over the country will be heaving with foragers right now ... a few miniature sized maggots don't scare people off.
 
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I've only chucked out maggot-infested shrooms once, and it happened because I had to pack them while they were still wet. Whenever I've dried them straight away they've been absolutely fine.
 
I had those ones I posted pics of in a bag for couple of days forgot about them then opened it up and there were loads of these little dead maggots I kind of felt sorry for the lil fuckers never they got the chance to turn into flies:(. Just kind of offputting ingesting something with them in. Don't know if the might also have eggs in them.
 
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I take it your not a fan of fishing Botfly? I wouldn't worry about it, we're hunter gatherers at heart
 
botfly said:
I had those ones I posted pics of in a bag for couple of days forgot about them then opened it up and there were loads of these little dead maggots I kind of felt sorry for the lil fuckers never they got the chance to turn into flies:(. Just kind of offputting ingesting something with them in. Don't know if the might also have eggs in them.
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Its their karma.. It was their time to go.
 
Yella, you were right about the agarics going a bit manky if you don't dry em quick enough

I'm not used to big dense mushrooms ... will know for the future tho ... 50 degrees in an oven for about 5 hrs or summat I'd guess
 
I think fly agarics need about 70 degrees to activate the chemical in them.
I usually only use the skin, I got told it's where what's active is found, but I don't know if that's right. I only ever use just a small piece of maybe an inch square of skin and smoke it with a little weed, tastes foul but nice effects
 
Marmalade said:
Yella, you were right about the agarics going a bit manky if you don't dry em quick enough

I'm not used to big dense mushrooms ... will know for the future tho ... 50 degrees in an oven for about 5 hrs or summat I'd guess
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I've never picked or used agarics, but ceps/porcinis, also massive fungi, we slice finely and dry on trays n the fn oven, no heat maybe 30c or so and just the fan blowin over them overnight....
 
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Haha fuck I reckon I must have boshed a shit load of maggots in my time, never occurred to me! Not too bothered though, not a veggie and they're probably better for me than half the shite I eat when I'm stoned :D

No sign round here but to be honest I've only had a wee mooch round the park. Was having a look on google maps today and there's a few fields and forests about a five minute walk from my house so I reckon they'll be worth a look when I got some free time on Tuesday. Really miss living out in the countryside, part of me is going 'go visit your parents, feign an interest in the horses' cos they grow like fuck in the fields we keep the buggers in. Might send Mum off with a carrier bag and instructions. Seriously want to get my own grow going to be honest but funds don't permit at the moment and the hippy dippy side of me quite likes frolicking 'midst the trees and wildflowers collecting stuff. Think I might buy me a wicker basket. Or even weave one!

Snolly needs some fuckin shrooms, not had any in bloody years. Want to save some for Christmas, had a lovely pastel-coloured trip last time I did that :D
 
People are actually munching agarics? I haven't tried them myself but have been adviced by lots of people over the years to not go near them. Don't you have to eat them whole then puke them up or something?
 
Back to maggots again just quickly. I don't mind eating them, but can they be carriers of nasty stuff that could do nasty stuff to me?
 
^ this. Not sure if that's from the maggots themselves tho, or from other 'things' ...

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I've always assumed that drying them and eating them dried stops a lot of the risks and potentials for catching stuff. But that's probably just wishful thinking on my part

Can anyone confirm this to be the case?
 
Any insect life in your mushrooms will be denatured if you boil them in tea and be perfectly edible. In my experience you do occasionally get small flies hatching out of shrooms if you leave them around damp for a while, but really there is nothing to worry about. Let them dry naturally and all the insect life will leave.

You wont catch a tapeworm either.
 
Well I don't know how I got this far in life without being killed by a maggot/tapeworm.

Some people worry a little too much for their own good.
 
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