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WTR wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2019 2:10 pm

Maxwell wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:30 pm

WTR wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:04 pm We have no venomous snakes at my place, just Bull snakes. I just pick them up and relocate them so they don’t startle my wife.

Are you IN Texas? We have venomous snakes across the state!

Grew up in W. Texas. Attended A & M. Currently there are no poisoned snakes where I live. Have experienced Rattle, Copper Head, Coral , Cotton Mouth and a variety of non poisonous snakes. I realize the Coral snake has a very potent venom. I also know you have to try to be bitten by one. Every Coral snake( three) I have been in contact with has been very shy and non confrontational.

kayt00 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:43 pm

Maxwell wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:37 pm

WTR wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:45 pm

NRowl wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:03 pm A couple weeks ago my buddy was pulling some wood out of his wood pile and was greeted by a Coral snake. He killed it with a 4' long shovel. There is no way I'd have gotten that close!

Someone needs to educate themselves about snakes. Unless you let that poor Coral snake chew on you your friend killed a snake won’t strike and is relatively harmless.

Actually they have a nerve toxin that is extremely dangerous to us humans, but you are right in that they are fairly docile and their fangs are in the back of their mouths. They must get enough flesh to chew on, not stab like the other poisonous snakes we have (copperheads, moccasins, and a variety of rattlers depending on where in the state you are). Coral snakes also kill other poisonous snakes.

Are we sure it was a coral snake and not a king snake? Animal mimicry at it's finest.

BeanCounter wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:00 pm Black widow spiders, brown recluse spiders, scorpions, rattle snakes, copper heads, cotton mouths, dive bombing blue jays, kleptomaniac racoons, an elusive mountain lion and attack squirrels can all found between me and my mail box, but there is no way I would return to living in the Metroplex.

God Bless Texas!

WTR wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:45 pm

NRowl wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:03 pm A couple weeks ago my buddy was pulling some wood out of his wood pile and was greeted by a Coral snake. He killed it with a 4' long shovel. There is no way I'd have gotten that close!

Someone needs to educate themselves about snakes. Unless you let that poor Coral snake chew on you your friend killed a snake won’t strike and is relatively harmless.

WTR wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:04 pm We have no venomous snakes at my place, just Bull snakes. I just pick them up and relocate them so they don’t startle my wife.