Spiders and Snakes; Was Re: Classic Computer Spider

From: Kevin <kevin_at_mpcf.com>
Date: Fri Jun 28 15:11:10 2002

Damn, i was unaware of that. I grew up in east Texas
(closest other home was about 12 miles from us). I
used to catch horned toads all the time. I used to
love the new born ones, about the size of a dime. We
would see them all over the place.

Kinda sad...

VeKTeReX

On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:04:11 -0500 (CDT)
Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, David Barnes wrote:
>
> > Now if I could only have trained her to go after
> > ants I would have kept her around :)
>
> Amen. Here in Texas, the fire ant invasion is
> killing off all manner
> of native life. When I was a kid in West Texas,
> horned toads were literally as common as cockroaches.
> Unfortunately, their primary
> delicacy is ants, and they'll sit by a mound or an
> ant trail and pick the ants off. You can imagine
> what happens when a horny toad does that on a fire
> ant mound. Fire ants will swarm an intruder, and are
> venomous enough to make even a human adult ill, if
> there are enough bites. A horned toad is easy
> pickings.
> Horned toads are on the endangered species list
> now, and nobody I know
> has even seen one in ten years. As far as I know or
> have been able to find out, there aren't any
> "civilization" related factors in their impending
> extinction. Just those blasted ants.
>
> Doc
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