Lunchtime! New photo added below

[Steelbanger]

hungry snake,cropped 2012-06-07 14 49 26.jpg

My granddaughter took this photo a week ago. We all think it's interesting.

[piller]

Very cool.

[Borregos]

Neat!!

[bdhold]

I love indigo snakes.
I was doing my dad's yard in Houston one day when one blasted past me and into the shrubs.
Following him was a gang of neighbors with hoes asking me if I had seen it.
I pointed at the next yard and said it went that way, thinking, which would rather have, the indigo or the 100 baby rattlers it will eat this year?

[Sixgun]

Nasty, nasty, nasty serpents. neat pic though!

Frank---see you at McKean gunclub at the end of the month for the Regional Silhouette Champs??????----------------Sixgun

[mikld]

Funny lookin' snake! It's got it's head in the middle...

[Blaine]

Death by swallowing, and digestion....**shudder**

[bdhold]

my yard shoes - I really didn't want to mow the yard today, anyway.

[Tristan]

I love indigo snakes.
I was doing my dad's yard in Houston one day when one blasted past me and into the shrubs.
Following him was a gang of neighbors with hoes asking me if I had seen it.
I pointed at the next yard and said it went that way, thinking, which would rather have, the indigo or the 100 baby rattlers it will eat this year?

I would've done the same thing!

Neat pic. Anyone know what the 'Lunch' was (species?)

[claybob86]

Yeah, it's a snake-eat-snake world out there...

We have lots of bull snakes around here, which I am quite fond of. Haven't seen a rattler on this place yet. (knock on wood)

[Sixgun]

my yard shoes - I really didn't want to mow the yard today, anyway.

Oh man! Is that for real? Spiders urk me more than snakes.

[bdhold]

In addition to indigo snakes, I guess I also love tarantulas - yes, it was real, in my garage - I just carried the shoe out and dumped it into a cool wet spot in the flower bed.

If it makes you feel any better, I don't like scorpions and kill them (also brown recluse spiders)

[Ysabel Kid]

my yard shoes - I really didn't want to mow the yard today, anyway.

Oh man! Is that for real? Spiders urk me more than snakes.

Jack, I'm will you! I can tolerate snakes, but the ONLY good spider is a dead one - and dead somewhere else!

[Blaine]

Been nailed twice by scorpins...not even close to serious, but stings like hades, and leaves a mark.....A cennepeid put me in bed for a day...man, I got sick

[bdhold]

if you have a house built through the summer in south Texas, you will kill 2 dozen scorpions in the house during your first year.
They also have the ability to slip through the tightest door jams, so you average one/month in the house in a typical summer.
Each of my girls have been stung once or twice, in their bed or walking across the carpet after dark (the former is most insidious).
I killed my first this summer two weeks ago - my daughter called it from the sofa watching tv.

[Newtmaker]

Years ago right after we had moved here to FL, my son came running in all excited about the Boa Constrictor in the front yard! Naturally I was a little curious as to his "exaggeration" so I went out front. There was a Indigo that stretched at least 10 feet if he was an inch. At least 6" in diameter, and he was heading out of the woods on one side of the property toward "civilization". I knew he would't last long down the street, so me and the son herded him toward our backyard and the larger set of woods. He would raise his head up at least 2 feet off the ground as he kept checking where we were as he finally took our heed and made a beeline for the woods. Haven't seen him since, but we had never has a rattlesnake around here, and only one coral snake. All the rest have been blacksnakes and rat snakes.

Good to have them around for sure!

Walt

[Steelbanger]

This picture popped up among my things yesterday. Subjects are my granddaughter and a big blacksnake. This photo is almost 20 years old as Haley is 22. She was always a tiny, petite girl and remains so now as I doubt she weighs over 100 pounds.

I hope you enjoy this photo.

Haley & Blacksnake, 1993 or 94.jpg

[Blaine]

This picture popped up among my things yesterday. Subjects are my granddaughter and a big blacksnake. This photo is almost 20 years old as Haley is 22. She was always a tiny, petite girl and remains so now as I doubt she weighs over 100 pounds.

I hope you enjoy this photo.

Haley & Blacksnake, 1993 or 94.jpg

That's just darn cute...

[Old Ironsights]

Tarantulas?

Cool. They are too big to bite (Widdows, Recluses & others though? Die now!)

Snakes? Unless identifiably toxic, snakes are cool.

Scorpions? There isn't a method of killing them that is painful enough...

Die, die, die....

[Ji in Hawaii]

When I was a kid growing up in Japan we had pet snakes in a terrarium nonvenomous of course so always thought of snakes as being cool critters.
My grandparents lived out in the country on a small farm my dad owned maybe an acre in size. Anyways I remember my Ojiichan (grandpa) poking around in the tall grass around the perimeter of the property, and he was looking for a venomous snake called a mamushi a Japanese viper. He would kill it and stick it in a large bottle then pour Shochu (basically Japanese rice vodka) into the bottle to the top and cap it. I remember his room he had several bottles on a shelf in various stages of aging. He wouldn't touch it until it was at least aged 6 months. He took a shot every morning for medicinal purposes, supposed to increase longevity.
Here in Hawai'i venous critters are almost non-existent, and definitely no native critters are venomous. The only things I kill on sight here are black widow spiders, and centipedes. Nothing creeps me out more than centipedes (bitten 3 times) thought our large land lobsters (aka la kukaracha) come close.

Mamushi Sake

[AJMD429]

I was doing my dad's yard in Houston one day when one blasted past me and into the shrubs. Following him was a gang of neighbors with hoes asking me if I had seen it. I pointed at the next yard and said it went that way, thinking, which would rather have, the indigo or the 100 baby rattlers it will eat this year?

People who kill snakes (or any other creature) indiscriminately are very hard for me to respect.