Message text derekticus wrote:
SirLindsley wrote: sfatulateam wrote: pbass111 wrote: . The critters can carry you away though!
Yeah, I remember those, er, bugs that fly, forgot their name. Looked like roaches. Palmetto Bugs? Neither, it is the state bird! 
You guys are all wrong---the state bird is the mosquito, and we got more types of roaches than you can spit at. They can all fly if they need to. Some get really large, too, but those don't live long if they get indoors.
Lots of scorpions, too, but I think Texas may have some of those.
Got spiders as big as your head, ("banana spiders") that spin webs between rows of orange trees in a grove.
And now, thanks to the animal fanciers who like weird animals, we have native population of boa constrictors, caymen, and jaguarandi.
Except for the boa, these are suspected of already forming breeding colonies. Lots of parrots and parakeets farther south, in Dade and Broward counties.
Up in the panhandle they've got coyotes, and an occasional jaguar that made it up this far. Or they were released.
And no poisonous snakes exist in North America larger than the Eastern Diamondback. I've seen skins about 10 feet long, nose to rattle tip, although the official record is much less. When I saw a Bigmouth Mouth Bass hanging in a State Park when I was a kid, it was over 25 pounds, while the record then was 22. So records are suspect. I have a pic of a gator bigger than the official record, too. |
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