Close call - Be careful BNutter

[eryk2kartman]

You need St.Patrick, he sorted out all snakes in Ireland

 

[Deleted member 21616]

I killed the snake and tossed it in the pond. The gators raced each other for the snakes. Those gators are approaching good eatin' size and can be dangerous to my beagle.

wow, it sounds like you're in a movie! do you have boar in the area too? my friend in arizona lost his dog to a bunch of pigs, had it all on his security cameras

 

[Cajunrider]

wow, it sounds like you're in a movie! do you have boar in the area too? my friend in arizona lost his dog to a bunch of pigs, had it all on his security cameras

None in my area. The wild pigs and the deer were wiped out in the last two hurricanes. I have no doubt they will be coming back some days.

 

[Gustavo Martins]

We have mosquitos. That’s it. ?

 

[rockm]

None in my area. The wild pigs and the deer were wiped out in the last two hurricanes. I have no doubt they will be coming back some days.

They will be there soon They're migrating east across Texas.. They typically move around at night, and I was never out collecting trees in the dark...
https://www.cbs19.tv/article/news/l...multiple-counties-in-east-texas/501-586335731
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-plague-of-pigs-in-texas-73769069/

 

[Cajunrider]

They will be there soon They're migrating east across Texas.. They typically move around at night, and I was never out collecting trees in the dark...
https://www.cbs19.tv/article/news/l...multiple-counties-in-east-texas/501-586335731
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-plague-of-pigs-in-texas-73769069/

The wild pigs are already all over the place 35 miles north of me. My friends have been going crazy trapping and killing them. A friend of mine got about 100 on his land. He said he has to kill about 40 each year just to keep the population in check. The females have about 4 to 12 each litter.

 

[cheap_walmart_art]

This is the one part I don't miss about living out in the country. We found the perfect house in town for my wife to have a full time music studio and keep up her student numbers, but I've always hated having close neighbors. The upside is that since I moved into town I have had zero issues with snakes, trash pandas, deer, nudist neighbors, etc. etc.

 

[Starfox]

I had this guy in our letterbox one day.



The next day it was far more photogenic.,

 

[rockm]

Had this in the Texas mailbox attached to the water bill one day. you get familiar with scorpions in the Piney Woods. They come inside too. They are Texas cockroaches...

 

[rockm]

That is pretty nuts that you were that close to the snake. I don't really get any snakes by me, maybe the occasional garter snake.

I get rabbits, squirrels and chipmunks and they do some damage. Pretty sure it was the rabbits that just ate all the leaves off $200 worth of a variety of new young Ume... Fingers crossed they come back....Each year i get closer and closer to working with solely conifers.

If you want a case of the creeps, see videos of Red Headed sawfly larvae eating pine limbs. They're synchronized, eerie and unsettling and a specialty for conifer bonsai growers. I've had them on my pines...

 

[AZbonsai]

2nd one of these in my backyard this year. My dog was staggering around like it was drunk one night...Vet told us our dog must have licked a toad. I guess if it would have eaten it the dog would have died. I dont kill the toads but I do fling them into my neighbors pet free backyard

 

[Nybonsai12]

If you want a case of the creeps, see videos of Red Headed sawfly larvae eating pine limbs. They're synchronized, eerie and unsettling and a specialty for conifer bonsai growers. I've had them on my pines...

No thank you! Fortunately the worst i get on my pines now are some fungus gnats on top of the soil due to the ferts.

 

[penumbra]

If you want a case of the creeps, see videos of Red Headed sawfly larvae eating pine limbs. They're synchronized, eerie and unsettling and a specialty for conifer bonsai growers. I've had them on my pines...

Been there, done that. They are really destructive. They love the 2 needle pines. They did a real number on a 30 year old Scots pine of mine a few years back. Killed a Mugo.

 

[amatbrewer]

We have black widows and brown recluse. I hate them. Spiders are hard to kill with insecticides. They won't lick their feet or eat dead insects so the residual insecticides won't get them. Unless you spray directly on them, they don't die.

I appreciate that spiders consume other pests, but I once almost lost a finger due to a brown recluse bite, so it is a precarious truce: As long as they stay outdoors I leave them alone, but indoors?...sorry, you must die. Lucky where I live now there are no recluses or other dangerous spiders, few black widows, and all the neighborhood cats combined with my dog keep my backyard free of any larger varmints.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

SW Michigan, I've seen feral pigs, roaming around in early morning.

Non-venomous blue racer on the farm, it can put quite a bite on you, draw blood, but usually is very quick to get away. It's a big snake, can get up to 6 feet long. So far have not seen any Rattlers. We do have trash pandas.

 

[Ali Raza]

All plants and pots are safe. Small sparrows loves to roam and play with the plants which sometimes make me to worry.

 

[Cajunrider]

Found another snake outside the house. He rose up in a defense posture. Lucky for him he is not venomous so he gets to live.

 

[cockroach]

I've had three snakes here. All Taiwan Beauty Snakes. A tiny one under a shohin pot I lifted one night. One about 3.5' sailed out of a larger bonsai I was watering and landed on my foot. And 1.5' baby laying in the water in a pot plant during a hot "dry" spell.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

I've had three snakes here. All Taiwan Beauty Snakes. A tiny one under a shohin pot I lifted one night. One about 3.5' sailed out of a larger bonsai I was watering and landed on my foot. And 1.5' baby laying in the water in a pot plant during a hot "dry" spell.

Ah, your Beauty Snake is distantly related to my Blue Racer, same family of snakes, non-venomous.

 

[Bonsaicarpenter]

I’ve been finding lots of these little guys. They’re harmless so I don’t mind them. When I repotted these Chinese elms I found one hiding between the 2 flats. That one caught me off guard.