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Jonathon Hayes wrote:
> 
> Hmm...  Copperheads have a lot of nazty bacterias in their mouths, right?

EHHH??  Bacteria isn't the problem with copperheads.  It's the poison.  
It won't necessarily kill you but it will mess you up.  I've got a 
sergeant that also has a side job that puts him in the grass and bushes. 
 He got bit by a copperhead last year and it put him in a hurt locker.  
Then he tried to be macho and not go to the doctor but we forced him to 
go.  I believe there are also rattlesnakes and water moccasins in this 
area.  Not sure about coral snakes.

>   Maybe is was them other snakes that look like copperheads.  The ones
> look like them have lots of nazty bacterias, but aren't very poisonous.
> Can't remember, but only one of the two lives anywhere near this far east.
> 
> >  Of greater concern, I would think, would be the copperheads.  Many
> > relocated Yankees like myself don't typically have to think about poisonous
> > snakes but one weekend in the woods down here was all it took to tell me to
> > make a little noise when I walk and always watch where I step!  A copperhead
> > bite is, typically, a bit more to worry about for most folks.  :-)
> > --
> 
> > Chris Hedemark
> > http://www.voicenet.com/~warthog
> 
> > Seth Fehrs wrote in article <341C9BA8.C8EB707E@mc.duke.edu>...
> 
> > >Just like to remind y'all that black widows are endemic to the area
> > >(I saw a few this weekend).   Supposedly they are rarely fatal
> > >but can be rather unpleasant, though many bites are mild.
> > >
> > >I saw several one summer as an installer of aluminum siding.  They
> > >liked out of the way eaves and other nook n' crannies on houses.
> > >Today I was moving some rocks lining the driveway where the
> > >grass was overgrown so I could mow it, and picked up one
> > >rock and noticed a big ol' black spider guarding an egg sac.
> > >It had the classic shape; turning it over with a stick, I saw the
> > >hourglass.   This one was big, two or three times the size of
> > >what I was used to.
> > >
> > >Poking around the grass, I noticed at least one other, and it too
> > >had an egg sac.  Hopefully the mulching mower got them all.
> > >
> > >Seth Fehrs
> > >
> > >Don't get me started on poision ivy.
> > >