pplantlady
09-27-2005, 08:19 PM
walking out to your backyard and finding these???? :ohwell
OMG! I'd freak!
:wtf
http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=963&category=Environment
Unusual Summer Swarm of Arkansas Copperheads
© 2005 by Linda Moulton Howe
Adult male, juvenile male and juvenile female copperheads began swarming in Yellville, Arkansas,
yard by mid-July 2005, three months earlier than normal move to dens for winter hibernation.
Arkansas copperhead moving toward cedar tree in Chuck Miller's Yellville, Arkansas, back yard.
Photograph © 2005 by Stan Trauth, Ph.D.
August 18, 2005 Yellville, Marion County, Arkansas - In mid-July, zoologist Prof. Stan Trauth in the Biological Sciences Department at Arkansas State University received a phone call from the Arkansas state herpetologist, Kelly Irwin. There was a swarm of at least sixty copperheads in the back yard of Yellville, Arkansas, resident, Chuck Miller. After five years of living on his forested ridge property, Mr. Miller knew it was too early and he'd never seen so many snakes together before. Copperheads don't usually move into groups, or "aggregates," until late September to October for hibernation.
Chuck Miller knew people wouldn't believe what was happening unless he caught some of the snakes as proof. So he went out at dusk and stood in one place to catch some. The copperheads were moving through his yard in and around several sites on his property, but especially around a cedar tree where Mr. Miller caught sixty. Prof. Trauth sent one of his students to see who reported back, "Sure enough, lots of copperheads!"
Chuck Miller, 35, of rural Marion County captures a copperhead the night of August 17, 2005,
next to a cedar tree on his property. Miller and Prof. Stan Trauth, have documented nearly 100 copperheads
so far in Miller's back yard, but no one knows why the snakes began gathering in such large numbers
in mid-July instead of late September to October before normal denning.
Photograph © 2005 by The Baxter Bulletin.
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There's lots more info in the article but the length was too long for the post. Check it out.... :thud .
Plant
OMG! I'd freak!
:wtf
http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=963&category=Environment
Unusual Summer Swarm of Arkansas Copperheads
© 2005 by Linda Moulton Howe
Adult male, juvenile male and juvenile female copperheads began swarming in Yellville, Arkansas,
yard by mid-July 2005, three months earlier than normal move to dens for winter hibernation.
Arkansas copperhead moving toward cedar tree in Chuck Miller's Yellville, Arkansas, back yard.
Photograph © 2005 by Stan Trauth, Ph.D.
August 18, 2005 Yellville, Marion County, Arkansas - In mid-July, zoologist Prof. Stan Trauth in the Biological Sciences Department at Arkansas State University received a phone call from the Arkansas state herpetologist, Kelly Irwin. There was a swarm of at least sixty copperheads in the back yard of Yellville, Arkansas, resident, Chuck Miller. After five years of living on his forested ridge property, Mr. Miller knew it was too early and he'd never seen so many snakes together before. Copperheads don't usually move into groups, or "aggregates," until late September to October for hibernation.
Chuck Miller knew people wouldn't believe what was happening unless he caught some of the snakes as proof. So he went out at dusk and stood in one place to catch some. The copperheads were moving through his yard in and around several sites on his property, but especially around a cedar tree where Mr. Miller caught sixty. Prof. Trauth sent one of his students to see who reported back, "Sure enough, lots of copperheads!"
Chuck Miller, 35, of rural Marion County captures a copperhead the night of August 17, 2005,
next to a cedar tree on his property. Miller and Prof. Stan Trauth, have documented nearly 100 copperheads
so far in Miller's back yard, but no one knows why the snakes began gathering in such large numbers
in mid-July instead of late September to October before normal denning.
Photograph © 2005 by The Baxter Bulletin.
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There's lots more info in the article but the length was too long for the post. Check it out.... :thud .
Plant