I think I may have interrupted some "private time"

I ran one over yesterday. Terrifying creatures.

I am pretty sure you did. Some decent sized moccasins from what I can tell.

I was just about to make a post that it was a great day to look for snakes. Seen two already today, but not nearly as interesting as yours.

The were each over two feet long, so not bad sized. What sucks was that when they started moving away from me, they went exactly where I was intending to go.

You are a big man, push them out of the way and go on with your business.

I gave them a few minutes and then dove into the cattails with wreckless abandon.

I heard they love shotgun blasts.

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Duck!

Warm for spiders too. Sitting in the ER with my youngest right now. Probably a brown widow (that is juat a guess). Luckily nothing serious after all.

Schmellba - enjoying your posts more and more. How old is your youngest and how did he/she get the bite? Never heard of a brown widow, did you mean black or brown recluse. Or the ******* offspring of the two species?

Wow - my first TexAgs text censor. I feel.....naughty.

Brown widow is just another species of widow spiders. There's also a red widow spider. All of the widow spiders are venomous, just the black widow gets most of the headlines.

Brown Widow

learned something new today.

Yep just added that to learning something new for the day.

I had to put together a presentation on the "Dangerous Creepy Crawlies of Texas" (literally the title of the presentation, as part of a Hunter Ed Instructor CE class I taught a couple weeks ago. I knew about them from previous WFR/EMT training, but never had any purpose to dig in for info on them before putting together that presentation.

Training session also included "Venomous Snakes of Texas", including the actually dangerous ones and the ones that are technically venomous but not potent enough to actually do something to a human.

She is 4. They were playing in the playhouse in the back yard when she got bit. I wasnt there, and she swore it was a brown spider.

A little research amd some guessing led me to brown widow. Obviously it could be something completely different, i am literally shooting in the dark.

Initial bite produced some pretty good swelling and pain, left a pretty distinguishable bite mark. My wife have her some Benadryl fairly quickly, Dr. pretty much said we did everything perfect. They cleaned it well, not much more you can do. We will monitor it for the next few hours to make sure no infection or necropsy develops, but ibam highly doubtful it will.

definitely seen these guys before growing up and assumed it was a male black widow

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The Black Widow: perhaps the only species other than Man whose d*ck gets him in more trouble than us

Haven't been anywhere too snake-ish the last couple weeks, but will be in prime areas the next couple of days. I'll keep my camera at the ready.

My dad was on our place this week cutting brush and filling feeders. Killed about a five-foot western diamondback wurm. Had 11 rattles and a button. NW Gillespie County.

Yep my 3 1/2 yo definetly thinks it's snake season. On our walk yesterday every time we passed long weeds or brush he kept asking if there were snakes in there. Seriously got asked that about 30x. Then his dad sends us a video of a snake he sees at work so now it's really the topic of discussion. We live next to a drainage channel he plays in and we mowed it back pretty well last week where he plays just in case. I hope the little guy sees one in the presence of his dad this weekend turkey hunting and not with me on our leisurely neighborhood strolls.