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Tom Wilson wrote:
> Errr, then why have I heard a rattler in the weeds out by Hemlock
> Bluff?  I'm from Eastern NC--believe me when I say I know what it
> sounds like.

Not questioning that, but I've been fooled by locusts. The songs of
small rattlesnakes and some insects sound very much alike.

> >BTW, there is a tiny species of scorpion in the mountains too,
> >about 1/2 inch long.  Two friends have been stung; one had almost
> >no effects save a small stinging at first.  The other rolled
> >over onto on in bed and got stung on the neck.  The effect was
> >that of a bad bee sting.

You can sometimes find them beneath rocks. They like dry places (up on
the ridges, in sunny spots with plenty of loose shale, is where I've
most often seen them).

> >> Not sure about coral snakes.
> 
> Southeastern NC, Southern Pines, area, etc...they're reclusive
> burrowers, and like sandy pine woods soil.

Really? I knew they were around Wilmington but didn't now about the
sandhills.

The danger with corals is that they pack a neurotoxin for which there is
no antivenin. Fortunately they're small and inject little of it
(usually), but they can kill, especially if one is particularly
susceptible to their poison. Copperheads, rattlesnakes and cottonmouths
rarely pose a serious threat of death to healthy adults.

-- 
   Stephen Worley Anderson in Rocky Mount, North Carolina

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