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[RipCityDSCPL]

I feel like you are leaving an important part of the story out. Did the scorpion get anybody in the house or not?

 

[BlazerWookee]

Hi, PapaG!

 

[BlazerWookee]

Can someone help me understand what nonvenomous arthropods are killing people at such a high rate in Florida?

Diseases?

 

[Lanny]

Plenty of snakes around here. Seen them in the neighborhood often. Luckily we also have a lot of the garden snakes which are harmless to people but eat the rattlers.

Worst was actually when we moved here, we rented for 1/2 a year until we found a house - and it was a brand new complex right next to a hill - one day my kid calls me "Dad, there is a strange bug on my wall" - went to look at it - a scorpion... Had swimming fins right next to me in that room - used them to get rid of that scorpion - and that's why these are always called in our house the scorpion killers. A week later found another one in the garage - captured it in a jar to show the office - and had the complex bring an exterminator to get rid of them.

Are you thinking of a king snake?

 

[andalusian]

Are you thinking of a king snake?

I am not sure exactly which kind - we tend to lump all the non problematic snakes into the "garden snake" variety - so maybe. I know we have them.

 

[julius]

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[Lanny]

I am not sure exactly which kind - we tend to lump all the non problematic snakes into the "garden snake" variety - so maybe. I know we have them.

Ever since I was a little boy back in the early 50s us kids called snakes that were totally harmless and ate flies, beetles and ants and had no teeth. These snakes were typically anywhere betwee six inches and a foot long. When I found one, I would pick it up and put it in my shirt pocket. They would try to bite my tiny (oops, I should say massive) hands but I felt zero pain. I always thought it was kind of cute.