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Posted: 3/22/2008 5:35:00 PM EDT
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Good idea Cuda snanke at Devil's Den http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/1devil6.jpg Gator at Alexander Springs (Look at bank) http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/34146Alexandergator.JPG Fire http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/FT5.jpg |
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Posted: 3/23/2008 7:26:59 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/23/2008 6:09:30 PM EDT
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This snake would be a banded water snake.... harmless just so you know you don't have to kill him with fire. |
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Posted: 3/23/2008 6:32:38 PM EDT
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I appreciate the ID. I was not sure what type it was. I am used to the natural fauna but the 26 foot ex pet pythons really have me thinking about camping and swimming. Have any of you encountered one? I have always been fascinated by the gators but there are too many of them now, especially in the swimming areas. Hoomie, your FT does not seem to run out of fuel. |
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Posted: 3/23/2008 6:53:56 PM EDT
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Hence the rising cost of gasoline. |
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Posted: 3/23/2008 8:33:28 PM EDT
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It don't need much, The above pic is test firing about 12 cc of WD40. It was short but sweet. |
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Posted: 3/24/2008 9:39:10 AM EDT
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I love going Golden Silk spider (we call them banana spiders) hunting in the summer time. I can bag about 50 a night.
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Posted: 3/24/2008 3:08:53 PM EDT
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And the purpose? |
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Posted: 4/11/2008 5:37:36 PM EDT
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Bump.
I took some pictures today at work.               |
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Posted: 4/12/2008 2:11:50 PM EDT
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In that last picture, the spider looks really pissed off.
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Posted: 4/14/2008 5:11:59 AM EDT
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Now,Hommie those really are things to kill with fire.(and chemicals)
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Posted: 5/29/2008 7:17:55 PM EDT
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Found this today at work.
     
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Posted: 5/29/2008 7:59:29 PM EDT
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you forgot to mention scorpions and Crocs...yes Fl does have crocs as well as gators....lots of creepy crawlies out there that are venemous. but most dont want to sting or bite you they just want to be left alone. the best defence is education. get some books on florida fauna and learn their habbits...Know Thy Enemie!! The best thing for you new arrivals to the state is to lose the Yankee/tourist smell and try to blend in with the natives. Fire works on everything.
I seem to attract snakes and have actually had a moccison wrap around my legs for cover as he was hunting little fishies in a spring...I shit myself that day but he didnt bite me. The fact is by the time you see poisonus snakes they are already aware of you...Just do a tactical redeployment ( Americans dont retreat) and educate yourself!!! And when walking in the woods swamps keep one eye on the ground and the other in the trees...Cotton Mouths love to hang in trees and drop on you or near you. if you are allergic to bites and stings get an EPPY Pen to carry with you until you can move back north... |
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Posted: 5/29/2008 10:34:05 PM EDT
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My general SOP is
if it's in the house it dies if it's on the house it dies if it's in the shed it dies if it's on the shed it dies That's for bugs of any sort. I found a snake skin in my shed... I'm not sure what to do about snakes. I would like to let them alone but if they are between me and the lawn mower something will have to be done. Coming from OR there are fire handling things that are safe there... but probably aren't smart in bone dry windy FL. I'm rather wherry of fire in FL. I'm also not somewhere where shooting a snake would be possible... I'd probably have to take a shovel to it. I'd also probably run here with a picture to make sure it was poisonous before executing a full out assault. |
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Posted: 5/30/2008 5:23:49 AM EDT
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One other identifier in poisonious spiders is that their egg cases are spiney, so if you see any, remove them.
Snakes are really out and about right now, seen corn snakes & lots of yellow rat snakes. So be aware for the venomous ones. Armadillos are about to drive me nuts, should have some new ballistic testing photos real soon, got some 95gr 9mm frangable waiting to be tested 
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Posted: 5/30/2008 6:29:16 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/30/2008 9:03:14 AM EDT
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Yup, they are everywhere. We need some damn rain. Isn't it June yet? |
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Posted: 5/30/2008 7:32:44 PM EDT
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I saw a couple of Cow Killers at work today and the assorted mud dabbers and yellow jackets too...I wish I had not read this thread becasue I was paranoid all day. ( I work in a lumber yard)...If you want to keep snakes out of the shed and away from the house stratigaclly place some mothballs in those areas. FYI all spiders are venomious. every single one. The deal is most dont have venom that is harmful to humans or their fangs cant penetrate our skin. The reason they all have venom is becasue spiders dont have jaws and teeh to chew food so they have to kill and liquify their dinner. I was a biology major in college so I am just trying to let you know what mode of feeding they use. That being said the ones that effect humans do it through nerotoxin except for the Recluse family. Their venom is necrotising( it kills living flesh on contact) and causes nasty open wounds that usually get infected.
my .02 |
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Posted: 6/3/2008 7:03:12 PM EDT
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There are a few crocs left but I have never seen one. This is the salt water swimming pool at the park. You can see the caution Croc signs in the background. Anyone for night swimming? Has anyone ever seen a Florida croc? I have only seen one scorpion in the Keys even thought my Grandmother would say shake them out of your shoes before you put them on. I quess they are not as common as they were in the early 1900s. http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/IMG_3496.JPG http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/IMG_3495.JPG |
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Posted: 6/3/2008 7:53:55 PM EDT
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I saw some crocs on a pbs special. They said the remaining crocs live around the kennedy space center and in the southern end of the everglades....I have seen a lot of scorpions in North FL. they like rotted wood and inside old wooden structures. Their sting hurts like a mother but they are not deadly the sting is similar to a wasp.
I had some tiny little beetle stuck on me like a tick this morning sucking some bleed out. It looked like a tiny stag beetle. I am positive it was not a tick any ideas?? I work outside in a lumberyard. what bothered me most is I have never heard of a blood loving beetle. He was attached to the back of my neck. We get a lot of importated wood from the amazon so he may have come in on the lumber. I know that the wood is supposed to be sprayed before its exported but not all the critters die in the process. Last year we had to have a bunch of wood from china fumagated because it was contaminated with a chinese wood borer of some kind. We also had a large bat like cat sized flying around in our warehouse that I dont believe was indigenous to FL. I am not kidding when I said he was as big as a cat. had over a 3 foot wing span, Possibly a flying fox from SE asia?? |
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Posted: 6/4/2008 8:31:47 AM EDT
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Sounds like one of those huge Fruit bats, They look like a fox with wings. |
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Posted: 6/4/2008 9:20:15 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/4/2008 9:22:35 AM EDT
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ah, good old Matheson Hammock, and Turkey Point in the background too! TERRORIST!  anyway, here's my addition to this epic FL hometown thread: 
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Posted: 6/4/2008 12:25:42 PM EDT
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wow is that a close up of a jumping spider? looks acary. Nothing bit me today at the lumber yard except heat exhaustion. I exhibited several symptoms and when I started pukking they sent me home. I am still curious if anyone could figure out what kind of beetle might suck on your neck like a tick. We figured it was possibly a fruit bat or a flying fox. Are fruit bats imdiginous to FL??
bogg |
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Posted: 6/4/2008 4:44:53 PM EDT
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Goggle dear tick and see if it looks like one. They carry Lyme disease. |
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Posted: 6/4/2008 6:19:17 PM EDT
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nope not a deer tick...who knows there is all kinds of nasty critters out there. It was just unusual to find this thing stuck to me. I wish I had a pic of it but I squashed it and went about my business...Wish I could figure it out. I took every biology/zoology class in college that I could and I didnt recognise the little bastard....probably was an Al Qeda beetle
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Posted: 6/4/2008 10:30:20 PM EDT
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don't know about beetles that suck your neck, and I've taken about half of the bio/zoology classes at my school. And the only fruit bats I know of are the flying mammals, if that's what you're implying, and FL has just 'normal' bats as far as I know. Take pics next time! |
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Posted: 6/5/2008 3:03:20 AM EDT
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Don't forget about these little guys. They like like to jump right at you after you come stumbling to your front door after a long night of drinking. They are harmless, except for the injuries you sustain trying to figure out what just attacked you in your drunken stupor.
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Posted: 6/5/2008 9:44:48 AM EDT
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When we saw the fruit bat we had just received several sealed container cars from Brazil full of hardwoods. He might have gotten in there by accident. Of course now that I want to snap his picture he isnt anywhere to be seen. Florida bats are much smaller. We have lots of the little green frogs which all the guys at the yard go to great pains to relocate into a safer area so we dont accidently squish them. They are considered good luck so we take care of the little green guys. |
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Posted: 7/9/2008 7:56:21 PM EDT
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 Bluetail Mole Skink. Not dangerous, but endangered. I have two in my backyard.  I hope to get a better pic that isn't from my cell phone camera. |
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Posted: 7/10/2008 7:01:31 AM EDT
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Hommie what was the last spider pic you posted? I have a few of those in the back yard. |
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Posted: 7/10/2008 7:31:34 AM EDT
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I was not able to identify the exact breed. but it is in the same family as the brown recluse. Its a hunting type spider, meaning it doesn't use its web to catch prey.
Not lethal to humans most likely but not something I would want to get bitten by. |
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Posted: 7/10/2008 7:43:40 AM EDT
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It was spider killing day at my house a few days ago, here's just a few of them
     Bug porn   Wouldn't be complete without the gratuitous Kill It With Fire pic 
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Posted: 7/10/2008 8:31:28 AM EDT
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Holy crap dude, you got a shitload of spider's at your house.
I HATE spiders, but i hate ticks even more, $11,000 later and i STILL have lyme disease  Spiders > ticks.....just my opinion of course. KILL'EM ALL WITH FIRE!!!
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Posted: 7/10/2008 9:01:56 AM EDT
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You can sell dead black widows on eBay. I shit you not. I found that out when I had some in the garage, big sucker, and squished it. Some go for $40-60.
I have a black slider in the back yard. Never saw his face for a long time so it was hard at first to identify. But was finally able to get some pics and my neighbor identified it. Went to Juniper Springs last month and saw some REALLY big bannana spiders, as well as just about all the other non venomous ones on that big picture. Cool stuff. I only kill the ones harmful to people. Most of the snakes I see are just sliders. But I'll leave the others alone as long as they are not in the house. Most move on. |
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Posted: 7/10/2008 9:22:46 AM EDT
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I HATE freakin' spiders - and gawddayum you have a BUNCH - BIG ones . . . screw fire, I recommend nuke from orbit. Just to be sure. |
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Posted: 7/10/2008 9:37:53 AM EDT
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Now who in the hell would want a dead black widow? let alone pay for it...
...people these days *sigh* |
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Posted: 7/10/2008 12:07:31 PM EDT
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The other day I saw a pink/red spider on a tree and it was the size of a dime. Anyone know what it is and if it is poisonous.
No, sorry I do not have a pic. I squashed the shit out of it and white stuff came out. No, I was not drinking that day. It caught my attention due to it's bright one tone color. 
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Posted: 7/10/2008 7:22:33 PM EDT
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I'm no fan of spiders, but Ruthee thinks they're pretty and cool so I'm obligated to take pictures of them. I don't know what these are, but they're pretty damn big.
 I agree, brake cleaner is my friend. |
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Posted: 7/10/2008 9:23:01 PM EDT
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by the way. SpiderBucket needs to be turned into a motivational poster. I can't think of anything clever at the moment.
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Posted: 7/11/2008 5:42:42 AM EDT
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The technical term for them is Golden Orb spiders. Locally known as Banana spiders They are quite harmless. They make the strongest silk known in the spider kingdom. They have actually harvested it for ballistic testing, it's stronger than Kevlar. There is also a Garden (orb) spider, it makes a zig-zag pattern in the the web and if you touch the web they swing or pump the web to further entagle their prey. Kinda fun to catch crickets or grass hoppers and toss them in and watch the attack. As general rule, I only kill the ones on the house and places where I walk into them, they do a good job on the other bugs. The silk makes a mess on the house, and they generate a lot of spider poop. They are apparently intellegent and resourceful as they build their massive webs where there is artifical light and the victim bugs are drawn to it. I live on 10 acres, 9.5 is for God's creatures, .5 is for me. When they cross the DMZ into my .5 they are killed with extreme prejudice. Also intereting to note with some spiders, as their web gets tattered, they will roll it all up in a ball and consume it then make a new one. Yeah, I spend too much time observing nature
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Posted: 7/11/2008 5:47:54 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/11/2008 6:16:04 AM EDT
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nice. heh i'm going to upload the raw pic to 4chan and see what they come up with. sometimes they're useful. |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 8:20:28 AM EDT
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ok 1st things first does anyone know what this is?
     egg sack  kill it with what?? oh ya  |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 8:26:59 AM EDT
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Now look what I found in my shed,
   Now what does ARforum think I should do with it?? side note I trapped a live wasp. I am leaning towards a black widow vs wasp death match. |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 8:34:05 AM EDT
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well that was fast.
Any guesses as to the winner? |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 2:45:29 PM EDT
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dunno what the brown one is. but we're going to need video of the death match
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Posted: 7/20/2008 4:21:40 PM EDT
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I zapped a Brown Widow and about 40 of her newborn this morning.
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Posted: 7/20/2008 5:26:58 PM EDT
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I thought about a video. I did take pics(will post later). The whole thing was 15-20 secounds. The spider won hands down.
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Posted: 7/22/2008 1:15:17 AM EDT
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I like were this is going.
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