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About an hour and a half ago I was checking the water levels in the Spartan mosquito repellent tubes I’ve put out in our yard. I checked one hanging on a pine tree and as I stepped away from the tree, my peripheral vision picked up movement by my feet. I looked down and it took a few seconds to really focus and “see” what it was among the pine straw...a copperhead about 10-12” long! I had been standing less than a foot from that little emeffer, Scared the hair on my neck and arms right up to attention. Called my wife to bring me a shovel and in short order he was transformed into a “good” copperhead 😊

I like to think I’m pretty careful about that sort of thing but holy 💩 that really gave me the “willies”.

We encountered four of them over the 4th of July weekend.

I killed two early May and haven't seen another but Im really watching .

They get in the way and then strike when you either step on them or nearby. Bastards...

i stepped on a rattler about 2ft long when i was a kid. i was faster.

How do those mosquito repellant tubes work, how effective?

Yes very interested. Thanks for any info

They work. Just add warm water, shake well, hang ‘em up and they do their thing. No scientific data to report but the skeeters don’t try to carry us off after I put them out.

We have them here but haven’t seen one in a while. I’ve been hit two different time when I was a teenager. You won’t like it.

Kill them around the house annually. Killed one this year and seen a couple more.

I don't have the mosquito set up like you, however

My bug zaper attracts toads to scoop up the wounded and extra crispies.

The toads attract snakes


Sittin out by the bug zapper with a cold beera has risks

I watched one cross a dirt road into a soybean field last week. Darn thing was going right toward the house, about 200 yards away.

Send them on a detour. Make them good copperheads.

Darn things think they are invisible. I agree for the most part.

Don't mind snakes here in the USA with exception of copperheads. Kill'm all.

I don't want any venomous snakes around the house and have killed a couple of copperheads over the years. But compared to rattlers and cottonmouths they are the least aggressive and the least venomous. The only cottonmouth I've seen was a mean SOB. He was sunning on a bike path I was riding on. I thought it was a stick on the path for a moment, but stopped my bike for a closer look before driving over it. Glad I did. I stood behind the bike and figured he'd move off the trail when I pushed the front tire got close. He not only didn't retreat, he struck the front tire multiple times even as I backed away.

Hate them suckers. This past saturday was using a manure fork to load the yard cart with some piles of weeds the old lady had pulled from the garden a few days earlier when one of them suckers slithered out of the pile towards the fencerow. Quickly made him a good snake with a load of CCI snakeshot from the SP101. Almost picked that pile up by hand too but decided to use the forks. That wouldve sucked bad if he wouldve got me! 3rd one this year.

Another reason I don't like pine trees around the house.

They're in my part of the country, but for some reason they don't seem to be here on my place. I grew up on this farm, and am 69, and have never seen a poisonous snake here. They regularly kill copperheads a few miles from me, and a couple of weeks ago a man was bitten by a rattlesnake about 15 miles away as the crow flies. Hopefully, I never see one.

What I do have to be wary of are those damn brown recluse spiders. Every outbuilding I have is full of them, and I spray a couple of times a year trying to kill a few anyway.

Why? A snake is a snake. They do what they were created to do. You trespassed on his territory.

In the process of rebuilding my privacy fence. This past Sunday morning I was taking down some of the old pickets in the corner where my neighbor's fence joins mine. A few leaves and other yard trash had piled up and I stepped over it. Felt something roll under foot and looked down to see about an 18 inch copperhead struggling to get free. Only saving grace was that I had almost stepped on his head and he could not twist to bit me. Hate them mofo's.