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One of my friends in a neighborhood close by got quite a few bales of pine straw to decorate his flower beds. Unfortunately, they found copperhead snakes slithering over the entire neighborhood. They were under houses, in houses, in yards, etc.
He was told that the pine straw most likely contained copperhead snake eggs and that they invited the snakes right in.
I’m not saying don’t ever get pine straw for your yard, but make sure it doesn’t have snake eggs in it.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 10, 2021 6:06 AM |
Next time I'm tempted to run out and buy a big heap of pine straw, I'll definitely heed your wise advice.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 10, 2021 5:38 AM |
Ugh...he should def tell the supplier about it. They prob have a yard of bales infested with nests.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 10, 2021 5:41 AM |
Turkey in the Straw is a better song.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 10, 2021 5:42 AM |
Damn! I just ordered a slew of pine straw.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 10, 2021 5:42 AM |
Copperheads do not lay eggs. They have live births in an amniotic sack.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 10, 2021 5:43 AM |
Look out for spiders too. Black widow, brown widow, brown recluse, desert recluse, etc. My husband was digging through pine needles while installing a watering system and got bit by a desert recluse. That was a nightmare.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 10, 2021 5:48 AM |
OP here. Maybe they were rattlesnake eggs. My point still stands about snakes though.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 10, 2021 5:48 AM |
R7 Rattlesnakes also give birth to live young.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 10, 2021 5:53 AM |
Remember that time on Trading Spaces that Hildy covered a lesbian couple’s living room walls with pine straw? And the hated it? They got copperheads.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 10, 2021 5:59 AM |
Snakes eggs would never be able to survive the baling process. The straw is put into a machine which compressed it with several hundreds of pounds of downward pressure before it’s tied with twine. No egg could survive that.
The biggest problem with pine straw is it’s flammability. It’s illegal to use around apartment buildings in my state after several were set on fire by cigarette butts being thrown off balconies into pine straw-covered beds.
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