Grasshoppers bite to incase ya'll didn't know!!!! :nod: I hate toad hoppers....them big beasts give me anxiety attacks. Of course my siblings (some worse than others) really enjoyed to pester me with hoppers after they discovered i was afraid of them. I remember once while rolling up some wire as i was walking away my brother flung a toad hopper in my direction and low and behold the damn thing struck me on the shoulder and clung there with those barbs that "jersey_lily" was talking about...or maybe it was its teeth I dunno, but the damn thing stuck like glue and well wire went one way, pliars when the other and I did the "hopper dance". After I got the bugger off and landed on the ground again i guess it was kinda funny, but I get into "kill" mode when something like that happens tho....so watch out. :wink:
Rattle snakes will eat prairie dogs....why wouldn't they? The thing with a snake is that they only eat about once a month, so they aren't the best prairie dog control! Back home you could go to the dog towns on a hot october day and kill 100's of rattlers as they were denning (sp) in the dog holes. funny thing you say about cutting them open...me and my mom one time killed a rattler, i think in like July/August and when we killed it we sorta tore it open with the rope or whatever and there were live baby snakes in her!! Baby rattlers and they were coming out fighting....they were soft of course, but looked just like little rattlers about 6-8 inches long. I think there were about 10 or 12 of the little buggers. So we killed like 12 snakes in one
. I won't kill all snakes, in fact usually only rattle snakes, but i will dispose of other's if they are around the house or someplace just cause they scare the hell out of me cause I think they are rattle snakes.
