SC - Dandelion Wine

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Peters, Rise J. wrote:
> 
> Just to bring up a kind of gross point, every time I've looked closely at
> dandelions, they've been inhabited by little bugs (I think red ones), I
> assume some kind of mites.  Do they just go in the wine and get filtered out
> at the end, or is there some kind of process for getting them off the
> flowers, or am I the only one who ever got that close to a dandelion to
> worry about it?

All of the above (more or less). I wonder if that's why the recipe I
posted says they should be gathered on a hot day...

Adamantius