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Snakes & ticks. I'm more concerned with ticks. The attached picture is of a youngster Copperhead I ran across last week.

Originally Posted by Stuart Brooks

Snakes & ticks. I'm more concerned with ticks. The attached picture is of a youngster Copperhead I ran across last week.

They make no noise. you walk by, they strike. Some folks believe they are not a big threat. They are extremely poisonous. I find little foot long ones all the time. A lady walking around the pool in the grass got bit in the side of the foot by one no more that 9 to 10 inches. Skinny little snake. She spent a week in the hospital.

I never see them big as that picture. They are always just babies.

Originally Posted by Ted Menelly

They make no noise. you walk by, they strike. Some folks believe they are not a big threat. They are extremely poisonous. I find little foot long ones all the time. A lady walking around the pool in the grass got bit in the side of the foot by one no more that 9 to 10 inches. Skinny little snake. She spent a week in the hospital.

I never see them big as that picture. They are always just babies.

This one really wasn't as big as it looks in the zoomed in picture. I think it had just fed on somehing because it was just laying in the opening under a cellar door cover and lethargic. No cellar, just a hole in the foundation wall through which the original owner fed firewood into the basement. This little fella was only 13-15 inches long. Not big but definitely a hazard. Copperheads tend to be aggressive too.