First kill of the season.

Reminds me, I was at an FTX for ROTC, and they had the Opposing force (the cadets playing the enemy) stay in baracks at camp blanding. Anyways, in open bay barracks, I was about to get in my rack, and the cadet in the rack next to me yelled "DONT GET IN!!" He pointed, and there was this huge freakin scorpian sitting right there in the middle, minding it's own business.

Me and him proceeded to smash it with are boots...the thing just wouldnt die...
 
I'm getting the spiders popping up all over the house. They always sit up in the corners of my high ceilings, watching me.
 
we're pretty free of nastiness here in the boston area. there are brown recluse spiders in the region, but i've never even seen one. we have an occasional black widow that gets into something that gets shipped up, but not a lot in the way of native monsters.
 
That god we have below freezing point temperatures around here... all the nasty poisonous stuff stays down south.

We did get the Asian beetles from your farmers. They are disgusting.

We have wolves, cougars, lynx, bears and such but I have only encountered one bear in my life... and it was up north on a fishing trip. Also had a pack of wolves near our camp (they were howling) but we never saw them. I have never been more scared in my life. At first we thought it was funny because they were maybe 2 miles away so we would answer them back at their howlings. An hour later they were 100 feet away... when we heard that first 100-feet-away howling we got chills through my bones!!
 
mmm...Scorpians...

We get scorpians....and at my old house which was next to a big wetland/foresty area we had some rattlesnakes in our backyard every once in awhile
 
Not much in the way of nasty critters in my part of the world. I hear there's a spider in these parts that can deliver a rather painful bite (brown recluse, I think) but I've never had a problem with them, and I don't think I know anyone who has. No poisonous snakes up here. The worst sting you can get is from a bee. There are bears around, but again I haven't heard of any encounters to be concerned about. When I've gone out on archaeology digs (depending on who I was working with) we sometimes had to carry bear spray, but I never so much as heard of anyone who saw one, let alone see one myself. The racoons can be called nasty if you consider the fact that they make a mess of any garbage can they find. LOL To be honest, I'm more concerned about the pit bulls and dobermans people take out for walks on the trail by our house than I am about any wild critters.

::edit:: I wanted to mention that we have something called a "pseudoscorpion" (probably can be found in many parts of the world). It looks like a tiny little scorpion, but with no tail. They're not at all dangerous, but very interesting little beasties. Every once in a while you can see one climbing on a wall or something... if your eyes are keen that is. They're only about 2 mm across.
 
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Hmmm, mostly black widows, few snakes and lizards, a coyote here and there. Biggest concern are great white sharks. One ate a guy's legs near here last week. :(
 
Right there with you Andy we had 2 show up in the last two weeks fortunately the pest control guy showed up too. Well we had him spray the whole house for scorpions so hopefully that the last I will see of them till monsoons!
 
Dear lord, Andy ... I don't know if I can spend another night at your place if there are scorpions getting in.:eek:
 
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CENTIPEDES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I kill at least a dozen of those things a week!!!

ICK! I hate those things more than spiders and snakes!

Oh yeah. We sometimes have copperheads around our house. We've killed about 5 of those. We've had 2 of them sunning themselves on our back porch. I mowed over a small baby one a couple days ago when I was cutting our grass. I am incredibly thankful that I was on a tractor mower!!!!!!! I knew it was a copperhead because of the smell of cucumbers right after I ran over it.

Ran across a couple black widows as well.

We also get the deer, wild turkey, buzzards, red tailed hawks, and coyotes. We've also had 3 bears, and I think one bobcat.

Bats? We have fun with them. LOL! Put a tennis ball inside a tube sock, go out to a street light at night, and throw the sock straight up into the air and watch the bats dive bomb the tennis ball. Just got to be careful they don't dive bomb you!! LOL!

I live out in the country. I see quite a bit. My mother look out for "critters" whenever we go out. LOL! And we almost always see a few deer, and sometimes a huge flock of wild turkey!

And I was an army brat, so we lived in Panama right outside the jungle. And I saw all kinds of critters there. Tree sloths, iguanas, bird eating spiders, all kinds of monkeys, more bats and centipedes. Even ran into a pit viper nest in a sand box when I was 4!!

But I have never encountered any scorps!!!
for a second, i thought you were saying you encountered all of these "critters" in one place...if i ran across copperheads, black widows, centipedes, bobcats, bears, and coyotes...well, i think i'd just pack up and move.

i live in a suburban area in NJ right by a reservation, so the worst we get are deer eating your flowers.

and tk...no matter what size you get, you'll always need a bigger boat.

A.T.
 
for a second, i thought you were saying you encountered all of these "critters" in one place...if i ran across copperheads, black widows, centipedes, bobcats, bears, and coyotes...well, i think i'd just pack up and move.

i live in a suburban area in NJ right by a reservation, so the worst we get are deer eating your flowers.

and tk...no matter what size you get, you'll always need a bigger boat.

A.T.
Haven't seen the Jersey Devil lately?

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That scorpion reminds of those suckers that have a scorpion embedded in them. Has anyone else tried those? I thought it tasted like burnt popcorn.
 
Most of what I see around our house are smaller spiders and box-elder bugs (I'm sure they are called something else, but we call them that around here). We also have pheasants that live in the lot behind our house. I haven't seen them yet this year though.

Couple of weeks ago though, i was outside working on my car and I heard a couple of people talking. I turned and could see an animal control officer climbing over a fence right by my house. I figured he was after some of the cats that roam around the neighborhood, but figured I'd keep watching. I went over into the corner of the fence area and slammed his net down on something I couldn't see. After watching him struggling with it for a second, the next thing I know this HUGE PEACOCK takes flight and lands in the yard next to where he was trying to catch it. There is a local zoo here that let's the peacock's roam free, so I'm guessing it had escaped from there, but man, I didn't see that one coming!
 
I HAVE encountered all those critters!!!!!!!!!!!

Deer, buzzards, and turkey are quite safe. LOL! Coyotes, bears, and bobcats are safe from the car and inside the house. LOL!

And we've killed a few snakes!!! I still get the creeps when I think about the huge copperhead that was crossing the street from a creek. Darned thing stretched halfway across the road!!

Now we've got a lot of baby squirrels, cows, and deer. So CUTE!!!

And a friend of mine just recently rescued an abandoned baby otter. Now THAT was something different!

Hey! It's fun living out in the middle of nowhere!! You never know what you're going to see!

But regarding the "big critters". As long as you don't bother them, they won't bother you. Don't go running after it to see what it is!!!
 
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