Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Black ratsnakes for vole control?
Mark. Gooley wrote:
Around here (N. pensinsular Florida) it's something called the black racer, and what's either a subspecies or a rare color variant called the indigo racer. Powerful, fast-moving snakes (they don't call them racers for nothing!), graceful of motion and arguably beautiful, and harmless. I saw one on almost every piece of land I considered buying, and have come to consider them a good luck charm. I have never seen any venomous snake on my property: maybe the racers eat them. Everyone else I've talked to in my church has killed at least one cottonmouth or rattler or coral snake near their house; there's even a place that buys freshly-killed snakes for their skins. When we lived in FL while I was growing up, we kept the neighbors son's pet indigo racer at our house. His mom was deathly afraid of snakes and my mom loves 'em. He was the absolute coolest snake. Coral snakes, OTOH, were greeted by an immediate call to the MPs to come kill them. The coral snakes had a bad habit of crawling up between the jalousie windows and screens on our house for the night time warmth. Beautiful snakes as deadly as they are gorgeous. So far, I've been watching my Granada vigilantly. It's doing quite well so far. Perhaps because it was a potted Weeks rose that I bought locally at Witherspoon's. It's also all by it's lonesome right next to the patio so it also has minimal exposure to the black spot that has been my curse in other parts of my yard. Like Shiva, I've pretty much given up this year due to the deluge we have experienced this year here in NC. Susan - who's s.o. is highly enjoying her temporary credit card-less state. The s.o. thinks this is the longest period of time I have ever gone without buying *something* for the yard. *smile* As I reminded the s.o., it's *temporary*. *evil grin* shsimko at duke dot edu |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Vole control | Gardening | |||
Vole control idea | Gardening | |||
black spots, Black Spots, BLACK SPOTS!!!!bbbbbblllllllaaaaacccckkkkkk ssspp | Roses | |||
black spots, Black Spots, BLACK SPOTS!!!!bbbbbblllllllaaaaacccckkkkkk ssspppOOOTTTSSSS!!!!!! | Roses | |||
black spots, Black Spots, BLACK SPOTS!!!!bbbbbblllllllaaaaacccckkkkkk | Roses |