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RE: Introducing snakes on Steemit!
I try to tell folks that snakes are not all dangerous but are all beneficial. That said, where I was raised the diamondback was never welcome in anyone's yard! No way to tell families that they keep down the rats and rabbits.
Rats carry Hanta virus, squirrels, the bubonic plague. One rattlesnake can consume 60,000 disease spreading ticks a year via it's prey! They are a most valuable asset to humans.
And usually reluctant to strike a human. I know, I tried telling folks that (well, not exactly that, just vermin control), but they want the rattlesnakes dead. I was not willing to translocate them because that is often just a way to have them die out of my sight. This was Central Florida in the 80-90s and just about everywhere was someone's back yard or just about to become a subdivision.