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longtooth wrote:

Venus Pax wrote:

TDDude wrote:If you have fire ants in your area, you have a very low snake population. You also have a low rabbit, lizard, quail, etc... population.

Like the mosquito, I'm really curious why Noah didn't eliminate them from the ark.

He did not have permission.

Guess I can't argue with that!

TDDude wrote:If you have fire ants in your area, you have a very low snake population. You also have a low rabbit, lizard, quail, etc... population.

Interesting that you bring this up. We just sold our house/property outside of Crosby a few months ago. I rarely saw snakes, although we did have quite the fire ant population. I think, in the five years we lived there, I saw four or five snakes on my own property. (Neighbors' dogs used to stroll up with dead ones all the time on her property, but I think said red-neck-dogs were hunting them.) Two of those that I found alive were poisonous, and I don't allow them to live very long.

I always attributed the few run-ins with snakes to that area being rather sparsely populated; therefore, snakes and other creepy-crawlies had room to themselves.

We never did get rid of the fire ants, and it wasn't for lack of trying. I couldn't do any gardening without getting eaten up. They even ruined a portion of our septic system's pump, costing us $600. Like the mosquito, I'm really curious why Noah didn't eliminate them from the ark.

The Burmese python is not poisonous and not considered a danger to humans. Attacks on humans have involved pet owners who mishandle and misfeed the snakes, Snow says. In Florida, they eat bobcats, deer, alligators, raccoons, cats, rats, rabbits, muskrats, possum, mice, ducks, egrets, herons and song birds. They grab with their mouth to anchor the prey, then coil around the animal and crush it to death before eating it whole.


I'm convinced.