Come on Yates , You can't bring stuff like that home with you .So many non native species have replaced our native stuff , plants , animals , that it has become a real problem in some areas . Tell me you are worse than my big brother and you are just s - - ting me . Please ?
Snake ID PLEASE
lol nop not teasing put him in a lil jar with holes in it and in my foot locker and broght him home and still got him he aint going no where . and the Big scorpion that i had passed a way and he went to the local collage sciance dep. for display he was almost 9 1/2 to 10 inches when it died i think it ate to much or was to old it was 8 inches when i found it . i do not turn any thing lose that i catch in another state or country in my state. their my pets or they go to local collage Dept. for scianceand not for killen either.
here is one of my nice ones
Ok , I confess , I brought , (can't say smuggled) a bird out of Mexico 25 years ago . He wasn't a threat to native foul because he was an indoor bird and I had him tested in home for the deseases wild birds carry
lol digger , not every one dose it but quite a few do for personal reasons of collecting unuseal critters and conversations lol
You still have one from 1990? Do camel spiders bite?
ejennings,
yep he is about 5 inches now doing quite well !
My goodness! So it's 10 years old! What in the world do you feed it? How old were the ones in the photo above?
Crickets the big ones up top i have no idea how old they were . mine get feed 6 med a week un less he is molting then he may eat 12 the week after he molts (sheds his skin).
You guys are going to think I'm nuts, but since you wouldn't know me if you saw me, I'm going to confess. One year I had a terrible time with rat snakes in my chicken coop eating the eggs, I even found one in a guinea nest (they are supposed to keep snakes away).
I found 1 that had eaten so much it couldn't get out, now keep in mind my then-husband 6'5" and 260 lbs was here and 10 of his workers needless to say they were no help.
I killed it and cut the eggs out of it, washed them, and stuck them in the refridge and we ate them.
I didn't realize that snakes had such big gall bladders! I actually have snake eggs in my freezer now.
I do try to keep some NP snakes around, I figure there is only so much to eat and I would rather have rat snakes then rattlers.
Nop not odd at all
My son just bought a house a few months ago on Spring Creek Dr , Liberty Hill . Finally got out of Round Rock after about 30 yrs . digger
Digger-I'm not sure where that is, but we are a small town, so it can't be too far. Are they in the country or in town?
The spider mites are terrible this year. I sprayed with Neem Oil 1 week ago and saw great improvement but their back. I think I'm going to try spraying my tomato plants with plain water this evening and see if that works. Its so humid I don't even feel like doing that.
I get turned around in that area , but think it is south of town . It is across the fence of a wildlife preserve , I think on the south side of it . It's a bunch of five acre tracts . Some people bought several , but his place had already been built and he says he has all the grass to mow, and cactus to get rid of that he wants . lol I do remember its in the country with a cul de sac, or dead end road . We'll be down to visit over the next winter , a coupla times .
OH goodie someplace I can ask about the one my hubby took a picture of this morning
I think in my looking at pictures it is a Prairie kingsnake or mole snake but would like to ask for other opinions
we are in East Texas near Tyler if that helps in knowing what is int eh area here.
the picture is the body as the head was umm smashed as he found it when he took the trash out someone had already "hit" it...just want to make sure what it may be so he knows if he should have on boots instead of tennies
Here's the other picture he took
How long is this snake and how big around?
It is'nt a copperhead and it isn't a diamondback rattler , not a corral , have never seen that pattern on cottonmouth and it's tail seems to come to a long , sharp point so if it's none of the above , then a good snake was killed for nothing .
That's what happens when a snake crosses the road.
Armadillos too !
OK I'm going to tell a story on myself which will help explain why I'm no longer married! A few years ago we were driving down one of our County Roads. It was getting close to dusk and there was a 5 foot rat snake going across the road. I hate to see them get partly run over and just lay there, still alive. I made my husband pull over (there were 3 kids in the truck) and I went to get the thing out of the road. Well, my stupid husband parked too close and it went up the wheel well and into the engine block of MY truck. When we got to our destination he opened the hood, and I tried for an hour to get that snake out but it was too strong I could get a hold of it but it was all twisted in the engine and just moved through my hands.
I have no idea how or where it finally got out but I was not comfortable driving that truck for days. I couldn't believe he didn't move the truck when I told him to. He just sat there and let it go up into the engine.
That's a man for ya! LOL We call those ex's!
I stop for and have held up trafic for turtles before.
No comment. Well, maybe one. This is also the same man that when a bat came down our chimney years ago ran out into the front yard in only his underwear yelling "animals are your dept". It didn't take me long to figure out that EVERYTHING was my dept.
So it's bash the man day HUH?
Only the useless ones- not you kenboy. LOL
I don't mean to bashing anybody. He admits to all of the above. The stories are true. If I'm just repeating funny stories that are the truth and they sound like bashing. Well...I don't mean to offend any one.
1lisac- Very well put!!
As for me, I was just kidding! Everyone has a use, some more than others.
I know you girls are just funnin', I just like putting you in the hot seat.
I must admit that there isn't much funnier the a man that is 6'5" 260 lbs running into the front yard in only his tighty whities. We had just moved to Texas Thank God it was dark!
OK, so I'm not the only one that HAD one of those . Giggle !
OMG There's more?
Girl , we could swap stories !
At the time it wasn't funny but now it is. To see the huge man afraid of bugs and other crawling things , was so crazy. I could hear him yelling for me from clear across the pasture. After we moved to Texas there were so many bugs anytime he found one he came and got me. He got better when his friends started to laugh at him. I also ignored him SO he thought I was getting hard of hearing. I was in my 30's so that wasn't the problem.
Most all poisonous snakes have a triangular shaped head. All snakes will bite, some leaving severe lacerations that can get infected even though they may not have a venom that is poison. Give them space and they will do the same for you.
If you are bitten take benydryl immediately, that and antibiotics are ALL they will do for you if you go to a hospital with a bite from a copperhead. Been there, done that
I had three dogs bitten by copperhead and freaked out . The vet gave them the benydryl and antibiotics , told me that anti-venom wasn't needed . He said if people were treated with same stuff used on animals , there would be less problems and a heck of a lot cheaper .Nice to know you learned the same . My neighbors kid 11 yrs old , got bitten by C-h and didn't even go to dr .