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Old 04-14-2018, 08:48 AM
 
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I saw the creepiest snake a few days ago. I open up my back door to let the dogs out and it was just sitting there to the right, I wasn't sure if it was alive but then I saw it flick it's tongue. Luckily the dogs didn't see it. It was most likely just a harmless black garden snake but I threw a twig at it and it didn't move. Then when the dogs went inside I got a larger piece of branch and was gonna try to get it to move or pick it up but it finally left as I got close.
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Old 04-14-2018, 09:09 AM
 
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While they are certainly here, snakes are more interested in avoiding people, than vice-versa. Fortunately, the lizards keep the bugs under control ... except for the love bugs which swarm the highways periodically, racing headlong into clean car hoods and bumpers.
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Old 04-14-2018, 12:46 PM
 
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While they are certainly here, snakes are more interested in avoiding people, than vice-versa. Fortunately, the lizards keep the bugs under control ... except for the love bugs which swarm the highways periodically, racing headlong into clean car hoods and bumpers.
It is the funniest thing, but with all I have heard about bugs after dozens of trips all over FL, my windshield is no more dirty with bugs than in any other State I have driven in. Now I only did SW FL once so maybe that is where they are all at. Even the one time I saw Love Bugs in E. Central FL it was no big deal. I still want to see a Palmetto bug.
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Old 04-14-2018, 12:53 PM
 
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Forgive me for asking a potentially silly question:
I love certain aspects of Florida such as the heat and cost of living, and certainly others do too. However, how do residents avoid critters such as snakes and bugs such as the palmetto (roaches)? Certainly retirees and other people who dislike reptiles and bugs like myself can find a way to avoid them... Is the solution to live in a high rise condo? Call the pest control constantly? Use lots of snake fence? How do people deal with it?
Thanks for indulging me.
I'm a native Floridian, in my 60s. I've seen one poisonous snake, a coral snake, about 9 years ago. The others have been non-poisonous. My husband has seen poisonous snakes, but he was out looking for them, especially as a kid.

But we do have lots of bugs. Mosquitoes, no-see-ums, roaches and spiders. I don't see many palmetto bugs though. And lots of lizards, which I like. It sort of goes with the territory.
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Old 04-14-2018, 02:30 PM
 
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It is the funniest thing, but with all I have heard about bugs after dozens of trips all over FL, my windshield is no more dirty with bugs than in any other State I have driven in. Now I only did SW FL once so maybe that is where they are all at. Even the one time I saw Love Bugs in E. Central FL it was no big deal. I still want to see a Palmetto bug.
Yep, a lot more windshield bugs when i lived in Alaska and Seattle area. However, love bug season here can be horrible for cars. At least they are chill little dudes that dont hrt you.
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Old 04-14-2018, 04:00 PM
 
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Yep, a lot more windshield bugs when i lived in Alaska and Seattle area. However, love bug season here can be horrible for cars. At least they are chill little dudes that dont hrt you.
I think the problem is the heat in FL, the bugs just can't fly in it so they walk.
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Old 04-14-2018, 08:36 PM
 
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Though of this thread when I was reading the news and saw this

Spring brings cottonmouth snakes out in Florida
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Old 04-15-2018, 06:32 AM
 
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I ran into the Cottonmouth on more than one occasion, especially while harvesting Palmetto berries, when I lived in the jungle of Fellsmere.
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Old 04-15-2018, 02:54 PM
 
Location: Ormond Beach, FL
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A pest control company will keep bugs out of your house and garage. If you buy a house surrounded by grass mowed short, have a lawn care company and have few shrubs or trees with wildlife value, you can maintain an sterile almost wildlife free yard. If that is what you like, it is easy to do.

We like wildlife, I saw a box turtle yesterday and a legless lizard or black snake today. But we make our property wildlife friendly. Florida can be either a wildlife haven or almost wildlife free. It's up to you.
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