Pygmy Rattlesnakes

[whiteyfunn]

LOVE the 'tar whitey!!! :clap_1:

It's just for you KDW!! :clap_1:

 

[kathydwells]

It's just for you KDW!! :clap_1:

Thank you!!! Are you ready for some FOOTBALL??????

 

[Miss Kitty]

Did you sit on the bedspread?

Hey JOey...I saw on TV that staying at a Holiday Inn makes you smart!

 

[yippie]

Pygmy's are agressive little snakes.

Old farmer's trick is take THICK, ROUGH, rope and lay all around the borders of your lot.

Snakes will not cross it.

 

[ShallowsNole]

The snakes around my house would laugh at rope. Or, possibly try to mate with it.

SJ's picture is a classic cottonmouth. Scary to have one of those looking at you, licking his lips. :shock:

ANYWHERE you have pine trees and pinestraw in abundance, you are going to have scorpions and pygmy rattlers. When I lived in Freeport, there were about 50 little skinny pines on our lot, and daily we would find scorpions in the house. Wasn't uncommon to find a pygmy on the steps or in the yard, either.

We cut down the trees and the scorpions left. Pygmies stayed, though, perhaps not as many.

btw, before y'all jump on me for cutting down trees...THEY WERE PINE TREES. Skinny ones. Prone to snap off in a hurricane and form a projectile to come in your window and impale you (or at least sway real hard, making you sick watching them go round, and round, and round ). Pine trees also attract lightning. I get incensed when people cut down beautiful, majestic oak trees that are hundreds of years old, but pine trees can go.

 

[Uncle Timmy]

My yard is snake heaven. I see 'em all the time (but as I am right next to Pt. Washington forest that shouldn't be surprising). I have seen quite a few pygmy rattlers, including one that was curled up in my outdoor shower courtyard - I just went into the house, got my BBQ tongs and picked that little guy up and tossed him over the wall!

Ah the joys of living next to nature!

 

[Smiling JOe]

SJ's picture is a classic cottonmouth. Scary to have one of those looking at you, licking his lips. :shock:

Even more scary to see him waiting to strike your feet when you walk by. I was blessed to have seen this one. They are very aggressive and I have seen one chase a guy for a short distance. I was almost on top of this one when I noticed him. He was typical size of about 3.5 feet and fairly thick bodied. I have also seen a coral snake in my yard about two years ago, and a big freaking Eastern Diamond Back Rattlesnake just down the street. He was huge - about 6 ft long and as thick as my biceps. He was going toward the woods so I let him go. The Coral Snake I picked up with a stick and placed him in a bucket and transported him down the street at the edge of the woods.

 

[whiteyfunn]

Even more scary to see him waiting to strike your feet when you walk by. I was blessed to have seen this one. They are very aggressive and I have seen one chase a guy for a short distance. I was almost on top of this one when I noticed him. He was typical size of about 3.5 feet and fairly thick bodied. I have also seen a coral snake in my yard about two years ago, and a big freaking Eastern Diamond Back Rattlesnake just down the street. He was huge - about 6 ft long and as thick as my biceps. He was going toward the woods so I let him go. The Coral Snake I picked up with a stick and placed him in a bucket and transported him down the street at the edge of the woods.

;-) Smiley J!

 

[wallymom]

Gee Willackers!!! I'm starting to think I shouldn't have asked. Ignorance is bliss. Does the Destin Wal-Mart sell thigh-high fishing boots?????

 

[whitesands]

Alligators and scorpions and snakes...oh my...alligators and scorpions and snakes...oh my...we not in Kansas any more Todo

Gee, thanks for the info jhbeebe

SJ and twt515...you are very brave indeed!