What kind of a snake was this?

drkelly

drkelly

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What kind of a snake was this?

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It was a live one, now its a dead one?
 
mommucked said:
Might want to look around for more of them.
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Yea they are social snakes and den up in bunches. We kill a few around my place every year. Last year one bit the neighbor's Orkin Man in the arm when he was doing the yearly termite prevention, messed him up but he is OK. This year one bit his Chihuahua, tough little booger lived. I spread snake repellent around the yard, not sure how well it works but it gives the Mrs. a little piece of mind.
 
Yea, it is dead. Not happy about finding him right next to the house where my boy walks around with no shoes on.
 
Get rid of the pine straw. It's a fire hazard, too.
 
I thought mulch was bad for attracting termites.
 
We brought home copper heads in a load of bark mulch, found em half way through unloading it off the trailer one year. I've used both and all of em have draw backs. I've even used brick chips at one location. Right now I use Penn Oak leaves since I got em coming out my ears in the fall. I say use what you like a treat each individually for its pro's and cons. But every home builder I've met swears by pine needles. Mulch doesn't seem too bad if kept dry and fairly shallow. Its the people who think its needs to be 8 inches deep everywhere who build a micro breeding ground for all sorts of pest including fungus and mold spores.
 
SFGator said:
Yea they are social snakes and den up in bunches. We kill a few around my place every year. Last year one bit the neighbor's Orkin Man in the arm when he was doing the yearly termite prevention, messed him up but he is OK. This year one bit his Chihuahua, tough little booger lived. I spread snake repellent around the yard, not sure how well it works but it gives the Mrs. a little piece of mind.
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What kind of repellant do you use? We went to lowes this afternoon and the only thing I could find was a bottle of some spray stuff that you have to reapply regularly to your lawn or wherever.
 
Up against the wall redneck mother
 
"I never used the cocaine to get high, I just liked the way it smelled"
 
Check all around for them and eliminate any place they can hide, It's better to find them when your looking for them than to be suprised. They like to hide under anything that provides shelter so remove or block off or seal any openings under sheds,house, etc. and anything that covers the ground. If you lay a piece few pieces of plywood on the ground away from the house and check them carefully every day or so you might find and remove some more before they get near the house. They are very fond of stacks of firewood also. If you have a lot of Toads or Lizards/Skinks the Copperheads will come after them so get rid of them critters too.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
But every home builder I've met swears by pine needles.
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Because it's cheap?

They put restrictions on the stuff in Raleigh after it was found partly to blame for burning down a townhouse development. It was one of those windy "fire hazard" days. Somebody chucked a cigarette butt or who knows what in the mulch. The pine straw lit off, got into the vinyl siding (which, by the way, is gasoline in solid form), burned up the siding, through the vinyl soffit (outlawed that too for multifamily), and into the attic framing. Proceeded to burn about two dozen homes to the ground and damaged a dozen or so others.

I've been using triple shred hardwood for the last several years. Thinking about going to double shred, though. The triple just disappears after six months or so.
 
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