Another reason I will NEVER live in the South. Snakes, bugs the size of your hand and ‘gators!
*SHUDDER*
Yes, Wisconsin has Rattlers, Timber rattlesnake and the Eastern Massasauga (mas-a-sa-gwa) rattlesnake...but not in great numbers.
I’ll just stay here and battle Liberals, LOL!
Here in Arizona we have wall-to-wall rattlesnakes and scorpions the size of chihuahuas
Bugs the size of your hand and alligators. Well maybe Florida, yet certainly not North Georgia. All of those Deliverance people of course but not alligators(snicker snicker). North Georgia people just don’t want all ya’ll northerners moving into the neighborhood. Of course the Denver types will tell you that there will be 3 feet of snow every winter thus do not move to Colorado.
Well said! My brother who lives in Tennessee is always trying to get me to come down there. No way. I love Northeast WI too much!
Mineral Point had a large den that they found remodeling there fair grounds. No one in town had a clue that they where there.
Out here the snakes-rattlsnakes included-need to be deterred and discouraged because otherwise they will get into your chicken house, decimate eggs and chickens, and create a hazard for people, pets, livestock etc. People do everything from simply keeping the brush cleared around chicken and people areas, scattering mothballs, not watering plants/trees/bushes along the fences after sundown, to fancy snake repellents and electrifying the bottom outside of chicken houses, etc. It all works-just a matter of how much you have to spend-and the mothballs keep away raccoons, too-they do not like that naphthalene/para smell.
I do love marinated, grilled rattlesnake, but haven’t found one to shoot, skin and grill in a couple of years-and it’s a good thing...
Maybe those people in that burb should try just not watering so much after sundown and trimming up the bushes from the ground?
Oh yeah-I forgot about the peacocks-I’ve seen them go after and kill snakes just for the hell of it, so they are a good investment in snake control-but I doubt the snooty liberals in a burb of Austin would want large, screeching birds in the backyards...
I killed a Cottonmouth in my wife’s garden, yesterday. Yeah. we do have snakes and wetbacks in this area.