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YESSUP
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Texas Hunting Hazards Updated. lots of pics!
#5391970 - 03/12/06 01:33 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Went for a walk in the woods today. Found allot of cool things to photograph. Thats a Copper Head and a Cotton Mouth.. My hunting buddy and I were about 50 yards apart and both about walked on the snakes at the same time. I started to call him as I heard him give out a yell.. It was funny as hell to here two grown men scream like school girls in the thick of the woods..
 We walked around and around and saw allot of cool things.. This yellow fungus was totally amassing it was consuming the wood dwellers and turning them into this dripping yellow mass. Look at the yellow structure as it runs its rhinos across the ground looking for a host to consume.

And then we have something here I'm not too sure about. Any help is appreciated.
Then we have some other cool stuff.

Oh Ya and a "PUFF"... 
PEACE!
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Edited by YESSUP (03/12/06 05:02 PM)
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Re: Texas Hunting Hazards [Re: YESSUP]
#5391986 - 03/12/06 01:38 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ah man, when I lived in texas i saw copperheads every day, beautiful animal. Is that a small mocassin in the first pic?
Yessup, you need a nature show.
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Re: Texas Hunting Hazards [Re: YESSUP]
#5392015 - 03/12/06 01:46 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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beautiful killing machines.
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Re: Texas Hunting Hazards [Re: YESSUP]
#5392032 - 03/12/06 01:56 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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awesome pics, thanks for sharing
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Re: Texas Hunting Hazards Updated. lots of pics! [Re: YESSUP]
#5392588 - 03/12/06 05:04 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Very cool stuff 
I can remember seeing some copperheads in the past. I lived in georgia for a while. Perhaps I saw the northern copperhead, 
That's a very cool looking area you have there.
I get a good feel for what it's like to actually be there through your pictures.. nice work.
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Re: Texas Hunting Hazards Updated. lots of pics! [Re: YESSUP]
#5392936 - 03/12/06 06:40 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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The unknown mushroom in the group of photos after the yellow ones is a Lepiota. It doesn't look to me to be one of the Macrolepiotas, so it should be treated as if it were deadly poisonous. Some of the smaller Lepiota species contain the same toxins as the deadly Amanita species. I'm not good at identifying the majority of Lepiotas - I don't find them very often so I don't get much practice.
Happy mushrooming!
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Re: Texas Hunting Hazards Updated. lots of pics! [Re: YESSUP]
#5392976 - 03/12/06 06:52 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Nice pics, thanks for sharing  There was a guy on national geographic awhile ago going around the swamp with a grabber with a glove taped to it. He was trying to show that the snakes will not bite unless you try to pick them up. Even when he stepped on both species, neither bit until he went near it with the glove. I'll agree with that for the copperhead, but the cottonmouths around here know that they can scare a fisherman away by showing him the inside of his mouth, then he can eat the fish. I've had cottonmouths do this to me while fishing, one almost bit me b/c I wouldn't back down  Be careful. Those runners look cool. It did not have fruitbodies? and that is it just eating up mushrooms? That mushroom looks like Lepiota procera. and the one down below looks like it may be Agrocybe dura What kind of ants are those? Some look a little like fire ants, but I feel like they are not. They look dangerous all the same. Texas is lucky, you got lots goin on there. I went out today a little and found nare a mushroom.
peace
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Edited by LouiseLouise (03/12/06 06:56 PM)
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YESSUP
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Re: Texas Hunting Hazards Updated. lots of pics! [Re: ToxicMan]
#5392999 - 03/12/06 07:01 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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ToxicMan said: The unknown mushroom in the group of photos after the yellow ones is a Lepiota. It doesn't look to me to be one of the Macrolepiotas, so it should be treated as if it were deadly poisonous. Some of the smaller Lepiota species contain the same toxins as the deadly Amanita species. I'm not good at identifying the majority of Lepiotas - I don't find them very often so I don't get much practice.
Happy mushrooming!
Thanks TOX I do appreciate the knowledge 
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LouiseLouise said: Nice pics, thanks for sharing  There was a guy on national geographic awhile ago going around the swamp with a grabber with a glove taped to it. He was trying to show that the snakes will not bite unless you try to pick them up. Even when he stepped on both species, neither bit until he went near it with the glove. I'll agree with that for the copperhead, but the cottonmouths around here know that they can scare a fisherman away by showing him the inside of his mouth, then he can eat the fish. I've had cottonmouths do this to me while fishing, one almost bit me b/c I wouldn't back down  Be careful. Those runners look cool. It did not have fruitbodies? and that is it just eating up mushrooms? That mushroom looks like Lepiota procera. and the one down below looks like it may be Agrocybe dura What kind of ants are those? Some look a little like fire ants, but I feel like they are not. They look dangerous all the same. Texas is lucky, you got lots goin on there. I went out today a little and found nare a mushroom.
peace
Lou,
OK lets see here.. Ya the Cotton Mouth is a bit of a bitch.. I have had them slip from the water straight up on the shore as if they want to see you run off. The Copper Head's are a bit more docile. This one was only interested in me when I stuck the forked stick down at him. I have been around allot of snakes and such. If handled with care they are easily dealt with. Its when you show hesitation you run a chance of screwing up. In the last 12 years or so here I have only come across one or two other Copper Heads..Water Moccasins are another story I have seen hundreds...

OK the Ants are Carpenter Ants and they are a bitch. The sting like a Fire Ant but are about three times the size. I broke that branch off to hang the cow skull and they just started pouring out.
The Yellow BLOB is absolutely amassing! That shit runs out with its roots and moves the mass to a new host. I saw no fruit body's just a mass on the move like a Hollywood horror movie. Peace
Edited by YESSUP (03/12/06 07:23 PM)
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Re: Texas Hunting Hazards Updated. lots of pics! [Re: YESSUP]
#5393183 - 03/12/06 08:01 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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OK lets see here.. Ya the Cotton Mouth is a bit of a bitch.. I have had them slip from the water straight up on the shore as if they want to see you run off. The Copper Head's are a bit more docile. This one was only interested in me when I stuck the forked stick down at him.
Agreed.
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Edited by LouiseLouise (03/12/06 08:03 PM)
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Re: Texas Hunting Hazards Updated. lots of pics! [Re: LouiseLouise]
#5393582 - 03/12/06 09:49 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I would be much to concerened about being bit by a poisonous snake then to pick it up! Don't you ever worry about being bitten?
Great pics
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Re: Texas Hunting Hazards Updated. lots of pics! [Re: YESSUP]
#5393638 - 03/12/06 10:09 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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That yellow stuff looks like a classic slime mold. Neat stuff. It actually crawls around sort of like a giant amoeba to find things to eat. If conditions dry out it will turn into something like a mold that produces spores that will produce more slime mold when conditions get right again.
We don't have Water Moccasins or Copperheads here - just rattlesnakes (little ones). You still don't want to be bitten by them. Fortunately, they prefer to be left alone. I know a few people who've been bitten by them - they all got pretty sick.
Great photos!
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Public service anouncement. This thread is being Hyjacked. Sorry for the incovenience. [Re: LouiseLouise]
#5393645 - 03/12/06 10:13 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Attention Shroomery members. Anybody that hunts mushrooms anywhere other then a fruiting chamber should take the time to learn how to ID the venomous reptiles native to the area you are hunting in. If you some how mannage to piss off a snake bad enough that it bites you... (DO NOT) CUT OPEN THE WOUND TO SUCK THE POISON OUT. (YOU SHOULD)WRAP THE ENTIRE LIMB WITH EVEN PRESSURE AND GET TO A DOCTOR. It will hurt like a mother bleeper. Don't lose your head you will have plenty of time.
Be safe and Good luck hunting.
Hello boys and girls! Do you know what time it is???? You guessed it. It's time for.... !!!SNAKE CHAT!!!
You guys are soooo lucky! Hot snakes are rare where I live. Snakes in gereral are getting harder to find around here. I'm living in an Ag. state and, well... Snakes and farm equipment don't get along very well. SAD BUT TRUE. Since I moved here, I have found more dead snakes in hay bails then live ones in the wild. They are good looking snakes from what the pictures show. What is that smallest one? It's head looks like a garter or crayfish snake but the body markings and color are wrong. It's too big to be what they call a ground or earth snake around here. Is that copperhead an Osage or Trans pecos? I keep a Northern and a Broadband+Southern cross and I've seen wild Southerns while hunting the other end of my state. The markings on them don't have that darker halo like the one in your photo. Is that you holding them? If so... You got some balls. I allways get a little nervous head pining smaller copperheads. (The skin around the neck seems more flexable then older snakes allowing them to roll and twist around in ,and if your not carefull, out of your fingers. I've also noticed the fangs pivot out towards the side of it's head more then rattlers and other vipers I've worked with.) Are the cottonmouths the same way? I haven't had the pleasure of handeling one yet. I do hope to add one to my collection soon. Do you find venomous snakes often, or was this just your lucky day? What other hots are in your area? Have you ever kept any of the venomous snakes? or any other reptiles you've found? Do you know your states regulations on selling or trading wild caught reptiles? (I think I smell a trade cooking around here, somewhere) Do you want any prints, seeds, or plants I might have? Hell, I guess my first question should have been... Are you even interested in reptiles?? Your other photos are nice too.
Oh, by the way.. Not all coppers are so mild mannered as the one encountered by "the guy from national geographic". I have one that has been very agressive since I got her. Just four days after her birth. Four years old now, She strikes at anything that gets too close to her, warm blooded or cold, live or dead it don't matter. She has killed two of her sibling with bites to the head. She would probably beat herself bloody striking at the glass of her cage, if I hadn't put reflective window tint up to keep her from seeing movment outside. She will still strike if you get close enough to sense your body heat through the glass. Thank you for your time.
I will now release this thread.
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Re: Public service anouncement. This thread is being Hyjacked. Sorry for the incovenience. [Re: cricket]
#5393748 - 03/12/06 11:05 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yes. I can read. By the time I typed all that, you had answered some of my questions for other people. I guess I got a little excited. I couldn't help myself. Hot snakes are cool.
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Re: Public service anouncement. This thread is being Hyjacked. Sorry for the incovenience. [Re: cricket]
#5394307 - 03/13/06 03:38 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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cricket said: Yes. I can read. By the time I typed all that, you had answered some of my questions for other people. I guess I got a little excited. I couldn't help myself. Hot snakes are cool.
I will reply more to this when I get home from work.. Hell its 4:30 am...See ya in a few hours 
OK home from work.. Crkt YGPM...
Here are a few Cool Cool pics my hunting buddy took. This is his Cotton Mouth.. And a sweet Mush pic with the sun bleeding threw.. Nice Photo Shapper 
Edited by YESSUP (03/13/06 03:05 PM)
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Re: Public service anouncement. This thread is being Hyjacked. Sorry for the incovenience. [Re: YESSUP]
#5395575 - 03/13/06 03:20 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Jesus. That's the most impressive specimen of any slime mold I've ever seen. It's like the friggin Blob... Or "The Stuff..."
http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/tx/Slime_Molds/
Myxomycetes are ALIENS!!! They are quite animal-like.... creepy. GREAT PHOTOS
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Re: Texas Hunting Hazards Updated. lots of pics! [Re: YESSUP]
#5395696 - 03/13/06 03:58 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well I got bit by a baby Cobra in 2003 on Koh Samui. Had a swollen right toe for almost 2 months and I was so sick within an hour of being bitten. At first I thought the sickness was from the anti-venom shot which I received about one half hour after the bite.
Took me almost 15 minutes to hobble out of the rice paddie I was in where I was shrooming and then another 20 minutes to motorcycle the 15 km to the hospital. Cost me $275.00, plus.
here is an image of a Cobra with his venom being milked;

Well that is the last time I open someones fotos from a public place like image shack. I just had three pop-up boxes open up when I opened your image of the snake.
Sorry I cannot look at the rest of the images.
I do not want spam shit popping up on my computer.
I wonder why my spyware and adware did not catch those boxes.
Another Cobra image from a different trip.

When I see the snakes I call farmers over to catch them and some milk them and others make belts and wallets and items form their snakeskins.
Here is a deadly asp which appeared at my bungalow door. The manager came and chopped off his head with a machette and then his Thai wife came and cooked the snake up for dinner.



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Re: Texas Hunting Hazards Updated. lots of pics! [Re: YESSUP]
#5395763 - 03/13/06 04:27 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thanks, Dude. I had a good teacher. 
Pick yer poison!!

If you look closely, you can see the yellow drops of venom on the stick. There was quite a bit of it and oh, if you ever think about picking up a cotton mouth, know this in advance...they squirt!! It's a thick, musky fluid that is used as a defense mechanism. It doesn't smell very nice at all, but our cat seemed to get off on it when I got home!

I read on a site that the Copperhead grows to 24-36 inches and that 42 inches is not unheard of. This baby is a great specimen and at least 24".

Great trip!!
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Re: Texas Hunting Hazards Updated. lots of pics! [Re: VirgilKane]
#5397503 - 03/14/06 01:05 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Shroom hunting is about so much more then just finding shrooms. It's a chance to live, and learn, and grow. Even the hazards can be benificial. To face a danger, learn from it, and then overcome that danger builds inner strength. Sharing that experience with a friend can help to cement a bond that many people will never get to have. . Every time I go hunting, whether it's for shrooms, snakes, or bigfoot. I either learn more about things I'm familiar with, or I find something new that I want to learn about. It's a chance to get together with old friends, and make new ones. An oppurtunity to learn more about yourself and the world we live in. It is good for the body and spirit to get outside, get close to the earth, crawl around and see what she wants you to find. Schapper: That copper is bigger then I thought. Pretty meaty for spring. It looked like 18-20 inches in that first photo. I see alot of green growth behind you, and your a good bit south of where I am. I am guessing it has been warm there for a while. When do the reptiles start come out of high-bernation? or are you far enough south that you can find them year round? If you find a area with "alot" of those grass snakes, and you started flipping rocks, turning weed piles and soft dirt. I would bet you could turn up a coral snake or two. As I sit here looking at all the green in back ground, and the copper in your hand. I am having a hard time keeping myself from grabbing a bunch of bags, a couple of snake hooks, and a tent, getting in the car, and hauling ass to Texas. Here everything is carved up for farming, piled knee deep in shit from feed lots, or it's so dry the grass will burst into flames if you walk too fast. A 5000-8000 acher grass fire just burned through the only area I've found Massasaugua. It seemed like the population may have been starting to make a comeback too. I hope the buzzworms were still hiding.
Mjshroomer: All your photos are great, but I have always loved your cobra photos. I can only dream about seeing such amazing animals in their natural habitat. Even though my cobras are the jewels of my collection. I would trade them in a second for a chance to experience just one on it's own turf. I made the offer once before... If you ever need someone to chase those pesky snakes away. I have experience with cobras and vipers. I have a strong back and I'm not afraid of getting dirty. I would be honored to carry your bag of shrooms and a snake hook through any rice paddie, market place, jungle, swamp, or dung pile you can find.
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Re: Texas Hunting Hazards Updated. lots of pics! [Re: cricket]
#5398620 - 03/14/06 10:58 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Good post, Man. 
What you said is so true...I don't do it nearly enough.
As for when they come out...Hell, I don't know. It's been a really mild winter so they probably didn't go underground for too long , if at all. I just know that we better start keeping a good eye out for them. As you can see in the pics, there is all kinds of terrain. Open fields, dense woods and some swamp. No telling what we might step on! 
I'll definitely take you advice on the Coral Snakes. I'd love to find one, I seen the mimics a couple of times around here, but never a true Coral Snake.
I joked with Yessup that beside containers to keep any "pickings" that we find in, we should also bring something to carry a cool Snake find in. I'll probably actually do it now!
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