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Post by cliffs on Dec 22, 2020 12:57:09 GMT -6
I did a season with the Forest Service in Virginia, Came across Copperheads quite a bit. It is SCARY how hard they are to see on the forest floor. At least rattle snakes make their presence know long before you get too close to them. I almost stepped on quite a few copperheads
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Post by chils on Dec 22, 2020 13:51:44 GMT -6
I did a season with the Forest Service in Virginia, Came across Copperheads quite a bit. It is SCARY how hard they are to see on the forest floor. At least rattle snakes make their presence know long before you get too close to them. I almost stepped on quite a few copperheads I hate em for that reason. I walked within 2ft of one here I killed. I was <4" from the one in the pic above before I saw him. I was backing up and bumped my heel on a landscape timber. He was laying lengthwise against the other side of it and never budged. If he'd been on my side of it I would have stepped on him and got bit.
One of the neatest black snakes I've seen out here was a non-venomous 3ft long black racer. Solid black and the name is correct--they are fast. Everything he did was in quick movements and full stop. I've only seen one but I wish I had a bunch more of them here. I didn't get a pic before he was gone.
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Post by cliffs on Dec 22, 2020 13:58:12 GMT -6
A funny story about the forest service and critters. Tarantulas and spiders really love the underside of a toilet seat in those Forest pit toilets because the fermenting waste creates warmth. Alot of folks were complaining that there were so many spidersthat they would see when they lifted up the toilet seat. My bosses solution; drill the toilet seats down so they cant be lifted and people couldnt see the spiders .
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Post by chils on Dec 22, 2020 14:18:40 GMT -6
A funny story about the forest service and critters. Tarantulas and spiders really love the underside of a toilet seat in those Forest pit toilets because the fermenting waste creates warmth. Alot of folks were complaining that there were so many spidersthat they would see when they lifted up the toilet seat. My bosses solution; drill the toilet seats down so they cant be lifted and people couldnt see the spiders . Yowza! Tarantula bag bite would be awful. |
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Post by Seven on Dec 22, 2020 14:32:50 GMT -6
A funny story about the forest service and critters. Tarantulas and spiders really love the underside of a toilet seat in those Forest pit toilets because the fermenting waste creates warmth. Alot of folks were complaining that there were so many spidersthat they would see when they lifted up the toilet seat. My bosses solution; drill the toilet seats down so they cant be lifted and people couldnt see the spiders . Yowza! Tarantula bag bite would be awful. ANY bag bite would be awful!!! |
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Post by chils on Dec 22, 2020 15:01:57 GMT -6
Yowza! Tarantula bag bite would be awful. ANY bag bite would be awful!!!  |
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Post by chils on Jan 1, 2021 18:08:52 GMT -6
After no activity for awhile I had glued cheerios gnawed without traps being snapped. Bunch of mouse turds in one spot by a bag of potatoes the wife had in the garage.
I smeared peanut butter on the snap traps and surrounded the taters with sticky traps with a blob of peanut butter in the middle of them.
After 5 days with no sign of mice I figured I didnt have any. Went out this morning and had 3 little mice stuck on the sticky traps. Nothing and then 3 at once. WTF?
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Post by Ken on Jan 1, 2021 22:04:51 GMT -6
After no activity for awhile I had glued cheerios gnawed without traps being snapped. Bunch of mouse turds in one spot by a bag of potatoes the wife had in the garage. I smeared peanut butter on the snap traps and surrounded the taters with sticky traps with a blob of peanut butter in the middle of them. After 5 days with no sign of mice I figured I didnt have any. Went out this morning and had 3 little mice stuck on the sticky traps. Nothing and then 3 at once. WTF? Wow. Has it been cold in your area? I was just thinking about this... still no activity for close to 2 months with 13 traps set. |
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Post by chils on Jan 1, 2021 23:27:54 GMT -6
After no activity for awhile I had glued cheerios gnawed without traps being snapped. Bunch of mouse turds in one spot by a bag of potatoes the wife had in the garage. I smeared peanut butter on the snap traps and surrounded the taters with sticky traps with a blob of peanut butter in the middle of them. After 5 days with no sign of mice I figured I didnt have any. Went out this morning and had 3 little mice stuck on the sticky traps. Nothing and then 3 at once. WTF? Wow. Has it been cold in your area? I was just thinking about this... still no activity for close to 2 months with 13 traps set. It's been in the 30s here. Weird that it took me so long to catch the suckers. I still don't get how they were in there with no food source and the peanut butter on the traps for several days. They were all really small. |
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Post by Ken on Jan 2, 2021 8:30:06 GMT -6
I've always wondered about that. I think they scout for food and once they find something they keep returning to the same place. It could be one mouse or five. As long as there is food and you have not killed them yet, they'll come back. But let's say those three mice came back night after night and now you have killed them all... you may not see more activity until some other mice have scouted out your garage. We have a thin layer of snow at the moment and yesterday I was looking closely to see if there were any tracks in the snow. I found none. I also closely looked at the peanut butter and cheerios in my traps. All look good and untouched. I think I mentioned the hershey's kisses right? My wife put some in my beer bunker to hide them from the kids (she was going to put them in their stockings... this was years ago). I found pieces of the wrappers on the floor and saw that a mouse had taken them to a corner of the room and piled them up to come back and get later. I cleaned them up and put a trap in that spot. Came back the next morning and he was dead in the trap. They will absolutely return to where they know food exists.
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