swallows, snakes and stink bugs

[allaboutm_e]

AKA who knew that the ability to rescue / relocate / remove the above was part of country living

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[allaboutm_e]

Yep, Jeff mentioned it. Which was part of the reason we wanted to relocate him. Plus he seemed to be gazing longingly at Jeremiah, one of our two bug-eating toads who hang out in the carport. We aren't sure even a snake could dislocate its jaws enough to swallow Jeremiah, who is a load o' toad, but we didn't want to chance it.

[allaboutm_e]

Geckos? We have never seen geckos! Are they more of a Tucson critter?

[yvonnenavarro]

Define stink bugs. Are these the ones that put their butts up in the air? Because in my youth in Chicago, stink bugs were smallish, flat things with shells that look like bark. The black beetles, which I call butt-bugs, I just hold out my finger, they crawl on, and I put them out into the yard. They don't get in the house, but they do get on the patio.

[allaboutm_e]

Yes, those are the stinkbugs I mean. One of which I evicted by hand from the Sierra Vista Public Library yesterday ... thanks!

[yvonnenavarro]

Oh, and I second that about the baby rattlesnake and venom. Sadly, that's what happened to the original owner of The Mesquite Tree out here, the first year we lived here. He was working in his yard and got bitten by a baby rattlesnake when he moved a rock. He died at SVRHC. :(

[allaboutm_e]

Yes, we know that sad story -- David attends BHS with his son. Our carport visitor was more of a adolescent than a baby.