🚀 go-pugleaf

 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.  :-)
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Chris Hedemark
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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.
>