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[BrokenolMarine]

I'd like yo see that, Marine.

RP

I took this with a flash tonight. If you zoom in slightly, you can see at least a half dozen pairs glowing at you...

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They are staggered down the center. Some nights there are a whole lot more. Maybe I was too early. I'll try when I go out later at night, or when it's darker.

[BrokenolMarine]

try this pic:

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There are a few more in there I didn't mark....

[Hatchdog]

That is wrong in just so many ways. Gives me the creeps. I’m not used to poisonous critters. We have Black Widows and an occasional Brown Recluse. I used to have a resident Black Widow in a sprinkler box at my last place. I would kill it every year and every year there would be another one in the exact place. Never seen a Brown Recluse.

Couldn’t imagine living with all those snakes and spiders some of you folks do. I am pretty pampered up here in the north.

[BrokenolMarine]

The tarantulas actually run if they have room. They will turn aggressive if cornered. However, the poison isn't really bad for humans. The pain is about that of a bee sting. I am more cautious of the scorpions.

Snakes are a different matter. There are a half dozen venomous ones here. We have a LOT of copperheads, a decent amount of rattlers, a see pygmy rattlers a couple times a year. (The worst here.)

[Hatchdog]

I’ve had a couple of rattlesnake encounters both while hunting Chuckars. Both times the snake told me to get out of its space and I complied. You’re the boss sir!

[BrokenolMarine]

Twice Tina has gone down to get the tractor from the barn and found a cottonmouth sleeping in the seat. We pulled the kayak trailer from the barn and found a 6 foot black snake sleeping under one of the kayak storage covers. Him we released unharmed to eat more vermin since they are non-venomous. First year here I went to put a coiled rope on the hose rack in the garage, one of the ropes already there struck at me. Pygmy Rattler. Luckily he was tangled in the actual ropes, and came up short.

Loads of copperheads, but less since the guineas patrol.

We look before we reach.

[dave77]

My friend was down by the creek last Summer and got bit on the top of her foot by a small rattlesnake. I didn't realize how painful the bites are. It was a couple of hours before they got her the first anti-venom shot and she was in extreme pain until then even though they gave her 2 pain shots through her IV. She had to spend the rest of the night in the hospital and they ended up giving her 3 or 4 more anti-venom shots.

Don't see Rattlesnakes too often around here, Bullsnakes are a lot more common. No tarantulas and very seldom scorpions but plenty of Black Widows around.