Yep! Deserts tend to have some pretty nasty critters. ╦╦C
I caught a half dozen scorpions in CA one night. If you use a UV light, they glow a brilliant green. Easy to spot. I posted those on T-Net a while back. Nothing close to the size of this guy, though. ╦╦C
Haven't seen any tarantulas yet this year. They usually go looking for nookie in late August. They are usually spotted crossing the roads this time of year. None so far. ╦╦C
Really! Never thought they lived that far north. Once I was working in San Antonio, Texas doing pipeline work and I had to shut a water tap off and took the cover off the valve and found the hand valve full of fine dirt. I began scooping it out with my hand and something in a handful of dirt was moving in my hand. I quickly dumped the dirt out on the ground there was a scorpion. The other work hands from Texas, said they weren't real poisonous and only itch kind of bad if they sting you. It didn't sting me, but it did seem a bit upset about being dug out of its home.
No ma'am, not me! Have you read the signs they have around there?? On the bottom it says, "Use of deadly force authorized". No ma'am, not me! ╦╦C
No further explanation required for me! ╦╦C
Jim, You remind of a time I stayed the night in Worland, Wyo. I got going east on 16 towards Buffalo before sun up and about maybe 9am I started climbing the foothill of the high and dry erea heading up towards the Big Horn range and there were rattle snakes all over the black top highway trying to get warmed up. I didn't have a camera or even a mobile phone in those days, as it would have been nice to get a few shots of the many I saw.
