On Wed, 13 May 2020 18:07:45 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 5/13/2020 1:36 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2020 10:32:23 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 5/13/2020 12:13 AM, wrote:


On Tue, 12 May 2020 16:25:19 -0400, John wrote:

...can be a bit dangerous!

https://www.liveabout.com/the-giant-...esnake-3299773
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There are a lot of opportunities here to become part of the food
chain.



Not nearly as big as the one in John's link but Mrs.E. came home to
our house in Jupiter, FL one day to find a 4 foot diamond backed
rattle snake coiled up in the entrance to our house.

It's the reason I bought a shotgun.

Also had those "pygmy" rattle snakes usually as nests in brush and
construction debris.

You need more black snakes. They tend to run the rattlesnakes off.
A black snake will eat a rattlesnake.
http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/Blacksnake2.jpg



That's OK. You can keep all your rattlesnakes, black snakes,
fire ants and wild boar down there. :-)

We have rattlesnakes up here but they are very rarely seen. The
"Blue Hills Reservation" here used to be infested with them.

I have been here 35 years and I never even heard of anyone seeing one
around here. We are lousy with black snakes tho. I have the ladies in
my family desensitized to them and nobody freaks.