Caz
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D**n snakes!!!
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aquan8tor
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I was talking about the venom, there bud. There are a couple of small rattlesnake species whose VENOM is similar to the coral snake in that it has a neurotoxin--makes it MORE toxic than other RATTLESNAKES.
Austin1
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I don't mind Spiders Got a real big one in my shop his web even catches my Arch Nemesis the yellow jackets!I ran into one of these a few years back while cutting wood near a creek bed.
I quicky discovered that wolf spiders get a lot bigger than 2" across. This one was about the size of a tarantula. Scared the pee out of me. :censored:
You have to wonder what it eats? I don't care too much for big spiders or big snakes.
Yellow jackets are potentially deadly. They can sting you ten times apiece and continue to live. They usually attack in teams of 20 to 50. Thousands of them can live in one colony underground, usually feeding on buried logs or dead roots.
Yellow jackets are mean critters and would just as soon sting you as look at you. When cutting down a dead tree, be on the lookout for them because they may have already started nesting around the taproot. They can also fly as fast as any bee alive. The hole in the ground leading to the main nest is about the size of a quarter.
danrclem
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Been there, done that. My dad and I were out hunting papaws back in the 70's. I stepped over a log (must have kicked it) and here they came. I was running and smacking all at the same time. I knocked my glasses off and like to never have found them after it was all over. I think I got stung about 8 or 10 times. Those things really sting hard.
If my dad laughed he never did let me know. I probably would have laughed if it had been someone else.
ropensaddle
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Yeah the pigmy is a fairly bad critter I had one at the base of my tree
just last week he tried to bite me; BIG mistake on his part. I used
to know the differences I think the sidewinder is fairly potent but
none result in death very often of the rattlers that bite. The corral
is easy to see so usually the person sees it before being bitten but
they will kill you quick. I have heard baby snakes are bad because
they have not mastered control over their injection of venom so
they inject all off it when they bite.
Dennis_Peacock
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I don't mind snakes and have picked up and move several over the coarse of my life. There was always a lot of snakes where I grew up, so I learned to deal with them.
However, I HATE SPIDERS and I hate TICS!!!!!!!
Ok...I feel better now.
However, I HATE SPIDERS and I hate TICS!!!!!!!
Ok...I feel better now.
yotehowler
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You're right, the mojave rattlesnakes (crotalus scutulatus) do have neurotoxic venom, considered one of the most toxic snake venoms in the new world, about 10 times more toxic than most rattlesnake venoms.
We do have mojave rattlesnakes in this area, however I think this was more likely what we call a western pacific rattlesnake. It got away before I could kill it, and I couldn't say for certain what species it was.
Man that's a huge rattler, Ive seen some bigguns down in saline county deer hunting. Weve killed some nice ones down in dallas county where we hunt now.This one was found around here by some utility workers last fall.
big or little, I don't want one to bite me. It's a big deal to get bitten by a poisonous snake of any size. Be careful, those snakes don't shed tears for us!
Bruce Hopf
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When I used to drive Transport Truck, I met a guy at a Truck Stop in Ogden Utah, and we got talking about Rattlers. He said when he was 16, him and a friend where walking on a dirt road, when a Pick Up Truck pulled up, and some guys jumped out, and started throwing rocks in the ditch.
After the guys were done, this guy and his friend walked back to see what was going on. In the ditch, now dead was a Rattle Snake, that was over 16' long.
The two teenagers looked at one another, and realized how lucky they were. They had just walked past the thing all coiled up, and could have been in some real serious trouble.
In 13 years of driving Transport, I've never seen a Rattle Snake, or don't know what a Coral Snake looks like. I've heard of them, as well as Water Moccasins, but never have seen any.
Thanks. Bruce.
After the guys were done, this guy and his friend walked back to see what was going on. In the ditch, now dead was a Rattle Snake, that was over 16' long.
The two teenagers looked at one another, and realized how lucky they were. They had just walked past the thing all coiled up, and could have been in some real serious trouble.
In 13 years of driving Transport, I've never seen a Rattle Snake, or don't know what a Coral Snake looks like. I've heard of them, as well as Water Moccasins, but never have seen any.
Thanks. Bruce.
16 foot long.<a href="http://www.sweetim.com/s.asp?im=gen&ref=11" target="_blank"><img src="http://content.sweetim.com/sim/cpie/emoticons/00020120.gif" border=0 ></a> H:censored: they didn't have a rattler they had a flippin anaconda.
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JUst thought i would creep you guys out that don't like rattlers. At least they will warn you before they bite your :censored: . Thus the name the gentleman's snake.
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Bruce Hopf
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Now I've heard of Fish in a barrel, but WOW!!!! How many do you think was in there????. Bruce.JUst thought i would creep you guys out that don't like rattlers. At least they will warn you before they bite your :censored: . Thus the name the gentleman's snake.
TOO MANY
milkie62
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Yellow jackets are potentially deadly. They can sting you ten times apiece and continue to live. They usually attack in teams of 20 to 50. Thousands of them can live in one colony underground, usually feeding on buried logs or dead roots.
Yellow jackets are mean critters and would just as soon sting you as look at you. When cutting down a dead tree, be on the lookout for them because they may have already started nesting around the taproot. They can also fly as fast as any bee alive. The hole in the ground leading to the main nest is about the size of a quarter.
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Doctor Ed
Its hornets that can keep stinging and live in the ground
Yellow jackets are mean critters and would just as soon sting you as look at you. When cutting down a dead tree, be on the lookout for them because they may have already started nesting around the taproot. They can also fly as fast as any bee alive. The hole in the ground leading to the main nest is about the size of a quarter.
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Doctor Ed
Its hornets that can keep stinging and live in the ground
Yes, I have one hillside pasture that never gets mowed. Every time I try, I get hit by 10-12 of those nasty things. Last time it happened, I went back a few hours later and stayed well away (100') but must of gotten into another nest because I got stung another ten times!
If it were only snakes, I'd be okay up on the tractor.
Ken
If it were only snakes, I'd be okay up on the tractor.
Ken
Please read this:
"Throughout the summer months, it is not uncommon for humans to have close encounters of the stinging kind as they use lawn mowers, edging tools or any other lawn equipment that makes noise. The sounds made by various lawn tools will anger and disturb yellowjackets in the immediate area. These stinging pests (often misidentified as ground hornets or honey bees) will often take a bulldozer "hostage," as the equipment operator abandons the equipment for safer ground.
Yellowjackets are Vespids (Family Vespidae), a group of some of the more dangerous of the stinging insect pests. Yellowjackets are among the smallest of this group of stinging insects.
These pests are social, building nests that can be quite large. Nests are made from a material called carton or paper. This material is produced by females who combine their saliva excretions with wood fibers to form the familiar looking paper nest. A paper nest can be built by hornets, paper wasps and yellowjackets, but the yellowjacket nest is usually not visible. This nest is usually underground but their are many cases where these insects have built nests above ground in the wall voids of homes. A home in Valdosta, GA was seen with a huge nest built on the exterior wall of the structure, with a nest so large (about 12 feet long, along the side of the wall) it was easily seen from the road.
Underground nests and hidden wall nests are eliminated with the same procedures and pest control products mentioned in the Yellowjacket Elimination section of this article.
A yellowjacket nest resembles a hornet nest and can be inhabited by thousands of workers. In most areas of the country, the majority of the pest population does not survive the cold winter months. In parts of Florida and California it is not uncommon to find perennial nests that live throughout the entire year. This situation creates even larger colonies in the nests, which is a great hazard to the unsuspecting person or family dog that ventures too close to the nest or nest entrance.
The German Yellowjacket is another stinging insect that is often found in attics, crawl spaces, inside hollow blocks or other voids of homes in the northeast United States. German Yellowjackets found in other areas of the United States usually nest beneath the soil, in ground burrows or nests."
Austin1
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I am supposed to get a good frost tonight and tomorrow. I have a large nest to deal with
Got a new can of brake clean. As much as I hate them I left them alone this summer as they are cleaning up my Spruce trees in the yard they looked really sick last year and what ever bugs were killing my trees the Yellow jackets and Bald faced Hornets swarming all over my trees have eaten the other bugs.I have to say though they hang around here even in November I know as I was Skinning a deer in the yard and I had one persistent yellow jacket bugging me just one but he didn't give up until I killed it, then I got it mounted lol
mtfallsmikey
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Take a look at my previous thread about my wife getting nailed twice by a Copperhead...it will be a month ago this Thursday, still recovering, foot still infected...KILL "EM ALL!
The yellow jacket or the deer.LOL
