Critters in the yard @ night

[Wickedfinger]

skunks and coons are poison packed ! . I used to see all kinds of critters around my house when I lived on the Delaware canal. My NV scope was fun to toy around with too. I've only ever seen one or two Black widows in my lifetime here in SE. Pa. and a couple of Brown Recluse (a ran into a small nest of them recently during my 70 resto). I had a huge wolf/fisher spider that lived in my shed that I named "El Gigante". He was a mean SOB and killed off a family of pinkie mice that were living in an old grass seed sack. The largest spider I've ever seen was a "small", 5" tropical Terantula on the island of St. John in the USVI's. I've also seen a few scorpions there too. Heres a picture of one.

[BigGreenMachine]

I'm some glad to live in Newfoundland, we have nothing to worry about gettin bit by around here thats poisioness. When I was in the states with my bro (Austin Tx) I was always on the look out for little critters. Seen a ton of lime green/black/white spiders that were scary big. I remember one day I was in the back yard mowing the lawn when I got stung by something, boy did I ever spaz out lol. Was like wtf just stung me!!! Home alone at the time in the middle of the *.S. I didn't need that. Turned out to be a nest of hornets or something.

[wanta250r]

I got a wide variety of critters around here. I have black widows, tarantulas, all kinds of red, green, purple spiders. Supposedly there aren't any brown recluses around here but I think there are. Scorpions migrate out of the desert towards me every spring/summer. Lizards and frogs and toads. There are supposed to be a couple mountains lions near me and bears but none have been seen in like 10 years. Still a bunch of deer and a few tule elk left. Seen two turtles in my lifetime. Racoons, coyotes, wild pigs, plus the gophers, squirrels, rabbits. Might be a bobcat or two still here. Probably more creatures I haven't seen.

[Bill X_R]

I'd even be scared to go out at night... That's when they hunt! They can be hiding in your bushes and you wouldn't even know it!

EDIT: Check out some of these pics I got in an email from my dad. This is down in New Orleans! The email went on to say how there is thousands of water moccisons just roming all over the city! YIKES! I guess we don't have it so bad after all!

That first pic looks like one mean SOB!!! As if the people didnt have enough problems as it were!! Your Dad live there or just helping out? Best of luck to him either way.

[84honda 200X]

Man that one snake was HUGE!!! Ive got a buddy who lives in louisiana and when he goes fourwheeling they carry .22s on the back of their wheelers and when they see one they shoot it.

[firefirefire90]

what are water moccasins? I mean obviously they're snakes but do they attack people?

[atczack]

firefirefire90: Yes, Moccasins attack people. They have been known to be one of the few snake's that will go out of it's way to chase you and try to bite you after you stumble upon them. They are poisonous also, stay away.
Everybody else: I'm not an expert on this stuff or anything, just a Florida boy who has been outside a time or two. But I read that one sure way to tell if you've been bit by a 'Brown Recluse' is the bite area will be red, about the size of a coin, and have a black spot in the middle of it. So be careful out there! Oh yeah, it is perfectly alright to bash ANY spider, even if you know it's harmless. I would rather have the fly's than the spider's. Just my 2 cent's....

[slothminx]

This dude was hiding in our sun shade on holiday, gave my dad a bit of a fright when he opened the shade and it fell down!!!. I also had a scorpian in my shirt, it was about an inch long. Gave me a bit of a shock when i went to put my shirt on to have that saying hello up close

[RedRider_AK]

I say terminate the spider and go shine a blacklight on the gecko. Then go smoke some weed. Just kidding.