I hope I am for real.
I bought 40 acres in Northwest Florida bartially because I love snakes and have herped for over 45 years. I would rather see them in the wild than in deli cups at expos or shoe boxes in my home. BUT, I have herped all over this part of Florida and NEVER seen such a "presumably" lopsided ratio of hots to colubrids.
sure I want snakes under my AC, and I dont mind an occassional EDB, croal snake or copperhead. But when I have seen almost nothing but copperheads within 100 feet of my house, and the creek has a ratio of 10 cottonmouths to each water snake I wonder
what went wrong. I want more diversity and less hots (no offense meant to you hots lovers but too much of a good thing is still too much).

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