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Snakes
Posted by tiziani
I've never encountered one. Are there a lot in NC?what surprises me is how domesticated animals like cats adapt to them
Yeah man there's plenty of em. The most common I've seen here are Copperheads, Cottonmouths, Grass snakes, Eastern Diamondbacks Rattlesnakes, Timber Rattlesnakes, Garden snakes, Indigo snakes. I think Indigos are common to Florida but I've seen some as far as the Coast area here. I could go on with the list but it'd be too much. If I could think of any other good career then I'd be a good zoologist since Biology was my favorite class in High School.
Posted by AirMan
well if you're a country boy/girl, you wouldn't be afraid of snakes. i don't know how many snakes i've encountered in my garden, backyard and fishing holes in my lifetime. and yeah some catch me by surprise, unexpected. i just simply scare them away with whatever i happen to have in my hand. the only thing creeps me out and scare the holy shit outta me is spiders. i think its practically normal for EVERYBODY in the whole wide world to be afraid of spiders.
Yeah Spiders still scare the shit out of me. But Scorpions scare me even more.
Posted by tiziani
Damn, how do you keep them from turning up in your house? I'd be annoyed to find them on the beach too.I hope there aren't any on the West in Orange County.
Probably but the Mountains are pretty damn cold so I think Snakes stay away from the Mountain areas. They mainly stick the Piedmont and Coastal area. But I love the coast just not Carolina beach, it's trashy. Speaking of snakes and beaches I've noticed a few Venus fly traps growing in the wild around there.
Posted by Virgofem
I love snakes. Used to play with them when I lived in Cuba. My mother and father told me if I picked up one more snake I was going to get it. Ummmm, yeah right. I kept doing it. One day walking home from school, I picked up a garden snake and the damn thing bit me. I was bleeding. I got home my father went into panic mode: poison control.... ER.... OMG!I lived 🙂 And I'd love to have a snake as a pet but have 2 cats.
Love Cuba. I wanna go there one day and drink a Mojito. And while I'm there I'll drive a 1950's Chevrolet. Man I love the environment there.
^^Stingers and pinchers. They look like a cross between a crab, bee, and a spider. That and when I was younger a Scorpion crawled on my face while I was sleeping and I saw it and felt it and I fucking flipped. I ain't been the same since.
I think I am scared of snakes because I can't tell the poisonous from the non poisonous.. I used to live in Victorville and yucaipa.. only saw Gartner snakes thank god...I think people should take advise not to own boa constrictor, python, and never around animals or kids.. there are so many snakes loose in Florida and they are all constrictor.. and large amounts.. not cool. Snakes get a bad rap..
Hm I would have died if I had some scorpion species crawling on face. I would be scared for life.
Oh ever seen potato bugs or camel spider, Brown recluse.. that's in Victorville and yucaipa. I was more afraid of those insects than the Gartner snakes. Cause they are everywhere in and outside..
^^I think the small ones are the ones you should look at for. Like Bark Scorpions because I heard their venom straight kills more than their pincers.
Posted by Impulsv
Shit my sister lived in scorpio land. While at phone talking she screams a scorpio on her bed.She said only way to kill it was to cut its tail. She did it!! Took 45 minutes n screaming lol
I would not have the courage. I'd check my self in a hotel n call
Exterminator. Lol
The Scorpion I saw was apparently a Southern Devil Scorpion. It all happened when I went camping. And now these days. I'm quick to zip the tent and check my boots in the morning and clothing. I'm prepped to get stung again.
The damn thing is already saying I'm 21 now. Fuck dxp sometimes.
Love snakes and spiders.
(throwin a spider on a pisces's blanket..the small pleasures in life 😄 )
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I don't see why people are so afraid of them. They don't have slimy skin, their skin is actually pretty dry and soft to touch. Usually when I see a snake or any other reptile that maybe poisonous or not (There's only two species of lizard that are poisonous and both live in the Southwest) I don't kill them. I just take a shovel or stick and put them into a bucket or basket and I take em out to the woods and release them. A few months ago during the summer I about stepped on a Copperhead and when I saw it, it was sleeping strangely near my car. I went to my neighbor borrowed his shovel and scooped him into a bucket and took him/her out to the woods and put them in the creek. I'm glad I did that. To me snakes are a sign of good health and healing and it'd be some bad mojo to kill one. When I think about it I can't really bring myself to kill any reptile or bird, reptiles because of their semblance to health and their semblance to cautiousness and protection from the unseen things in life. And birds I just can't kill them because of their relation to dinosaurs (It's like killing a unicorn with a bomb) and one incident so many years ago threw me on a guilt trip. Maybe if I was being threatened but I'd try to make it as quick as possible. Why do people fear snakes and have you ever felt this remorse or form of care for them?