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anyone else got a yard full of copperheads?
Posted on 7/22/17 at 9:58 pm
Posted on 7/22/17 at 9:58 pm
I've found at least two every day for about a week...the dogs track them down.
apparently they come out to eat the cicadas
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Posted on 7/22/17 at 10:01 pm to cgrand
Just curious what Parish ? My parents live near Franklinton and have seen more than normal this summer
Posted on 7/22/17 at 10:11 pm to Got Blaze
Tangi
just walked down the drive and found another one
it's getting a little creepy
just walked down the drive and found another one
it's getting a little creepy
Posted on 7/22/17 at 11:06 pm to cgrand
You need a bunch of cats or mongooses or something
Posted on 7/22/17 at 11:12 pm to cgrand
Frick that
Posted on 7/23/17 at 12:02 am to cgrand
Posted on 7/23/17 at 7:13 am to LSUEnvy
I'd probably move
Posted on 7/23/17 at 7:43 am to cgrand
Welp
Posted on 7/23/17 at 8:05 am to cgrand
I don't have copperheads, thank God, but I'm seeing a lot of ribbon snakes in my yard. A few mornings ago, I had 5 of them on my patio.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 8:11 am to LSUEnvy
I saw that article but didn't see the thread, thanks
I'm up to a dozen or so after last night
wife is flipping out and won't let the dogs outside at night now by themselves.
it is kinda cool though...I've been here 12 yrs and never seen one before this but clearly they've always been around. I don't really want to kill them (only shoveled one so far) so I hope this is over soon. There's a snake man close to me that's come and picked up several that I captured
I'm up to a dozen or so after last night
wife is flipping out and won't let the dogs outside at night now by themselves.
it is kinda cool though...I've been here 12 yrs and never seen one before this but clearly they've always been around. I don't really want to kill them (only shoveled one so far) so I hope this is over soon. There's a snake man close to me that's come and picked up several that I captured
Posted on 7/23/17 at 8:19 am to cgrand
are they full grown or juvenile?
Posted on 7/23/17 at 8:43 am to Babewinkelman
some of both but mostly adult
snake guy says they milk them and then are studying reproduction
snake guy says they milk them and then are studying reproduction
Posted on 7/23/17 at 9:11 am to cgrand
I've killed 2 small ones in my yard in EBR this yr, had not seen one before this yr.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 9:55 am to cgrand
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found at least two every day for about a week
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I'm up to a dozen or so
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I don't really want to kill them
I'm not the kill everyone you see type, but at a certain point it's time to stand your ground when venomous snakes start to turn your home into theirs.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:03 am to cgrand
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Tangi
Don't let them come here....they will die with the quickness
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:05 am to cgrand
Not being dramatic here. But if my wife found two copperheads in the yard on multiple occasions she would pack the kids and move into a hotel.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:10 am to cgrand
Have you gone out looking at night?
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:12 am to cgrand
That's gotta be one hell of a lot of cicadas!
Without a food source they would not be there, especially thriving like that. You got more going on around there than just cicadas.
I live 2.5 miles from a small town between a pond and a spring fed "branch" and I only see a half dozen snakes per year on about a 5 acre yard. Mostly what I see are harmless snakes, maybe every other year a cottonmouth. I get rabbits, squirrels, deer, armadillos, possums, an occasional skunk, in the yard. Haven't seen a big copperhead since about 1990 on the place.
I had to pay $350 to get the lawn tractor rewired from rats nesting over winter last year and usually find another rat nest in low growing rose bush out front.
So yeah, you got something else attracting those copperheads.
Without a food source they would not be there, especially thriving like that. You got more going on around there than just cicadas.
I live 2.5 miles from a small town between a pond and a spring fed "branch" and I only see a half dozen snakes per year on about a 5 acre yard. Mostly what I see are harmless snakes, maybe every other year a cottonmouth. I get rabbits, squirrels, deer, armadillos, possums, an occasional skunk, in the yard. Haven't seen a big copperhead since about 1990 on the place.
I had to pay $350 to get the lawn tractor rewired from rats nesting over winter last year and usually find another rat nest in low growing rose bush out front.
So yeah, you got something else attracting those copperheads.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:12 am to Citica8
I prefer to share my property with the animals
like I said they've obviously always been here just never been so out and about.
they are pretty docile...even with a dog barking at them I've not seen one do anything aggressive. I've got a big wooded area, big azeleas and plenty other places for them to hang without bothering anybody
like I said they've obviously always been here just never been so out and about.
they are pretty docile...even with a dog barking at them I've not seen one do anything aggressive. I've got a big wooded area, big azeleas and plenty other places for them to hang without bothering anybody
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:15 am to AlxTgr
most I've found have been at nite
they are eating the cicadas which are everywhere right now (what the snake guy told me).
usually between 9pm - midnite
they are eating the cicadas which are everywhere right now (what the snake guy told me).
usually between 9pm - midnite
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