The buzzing quickly grows louder as the bulk of the swarm wheels around and focuses their full attention on you. Burrowers will strip a man to the bone in minutes or burrow deep into your flesh and lay their eggs in their thousands. It's a bad way to go. You need to come up with a plan quickly if you wish to live. There is no way to outrun these insects, but you may be able to distract them.

Burrowers only seek flesh to lay their eggs in and food to consume. Since you are not about to give them your flesh, your rations are your only option. There is no telling how much food would be needed to distract a swarm that size and so you dump everything. You might die of starvation, but if this distraction fails, you will not live long enough to find out. After spreading all of your rations across the ground, you immediately run off along the Wire.