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Originally Posted by Runway48
Black racers are great. But, Florida is home to every type of venomous insect and reptile in the US. While living in Durham NC, my neighbor went out to pick up his Sunday morning newspaper off the lawn and was bit in the foot by a baby copperhead, they apparently are loaded at birth, he had to go to the ER for anti-venom. Recently, an Amazon delivery man in Melbourne FL was sent to the hospital after being bit by a rattler that was resting by the door when he made a delivery. There's a you tube doorbell video of another Amazon deliverer that came across a similar situation. He found a shovel and a rake and took care of it. There is a time for a shovel. Whenever hiking or walking in the south it's extra important to look down.
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When we lived in SE Florida I was walking my dog with a friend and her dog. As we walked along the dogs stopped to look down. There were an unbelievable amount of small snakes crossing the road. They were shorter than an earth worm but wider around. If it weren't for the dogs we wouldn't have noticed them. They were just baby black snakes, I think.
My in-laws lived in Vero Beach. My MIL loved to putz in her garden. She was was pulling weeds and trimming growth of plants outside of the lanai/swimming pool. She had a wheelbarrow behind her. She was digging into the ground with a shovel and unearthed a den of black snakes. She didn't turn around but backed up to get away from the snakes and fell into the wheelbarrow, that had prickly, sharp cuttings in it. She wasn't injured, just scared. Can you imagine? I wasn't there when it happened.