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    An overabundance of Copperheads...

    I have seen at least 6 Copperheads in the last 5 nights. They have all been seen at dusk at the edge of my back yard about 75 yards from my house. It is a bit early for them to be actively moving towards a den for hibernation. Anyone have an idea of what is up with them. I've seen no other snakes besides a small speckled king snake. All six snakes have been seen within a 50 yard by 10 yard area.

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    Could it be the copperhead rut. I have always seemed to notice that where one snake was seen others ofthe same were close by.

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    reminds me of the simpsons episode... The great day or something they hit snakes with sticks...

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    Quote Originally Posted by victorfox View Post
    reminds me of the simpsons episode... The great day or something they hit snakes with sticks...
    Whacking Day. Either snakes or the Irish.

    A member in Texas had a run on copperheads also. LOTS.
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    Thanks Jeff.

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    If the Cicadas are coming out the snakes will gather in an area to catch them before the exoskeleton has a chance to harden.

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    Sneaky buggers and usually not aggressive but I would not want them near. Dogs and such can be bit. I would shoot them. Black snakes take care of rodents. Tree huggers might hate you so just send them the snakes! I don't want any poisonous snakes around at all.

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    No cicadas here yet and I am disappointed. I want some to eat. They are good!

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    A bumper crop of both Cicadas, and black snakes here. I had no idea they might be connected. Never too old to learn.
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    No cicadas here been way to dry for way to long.
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    Well apparently the cicadas are what they're after. I didn't really expect the snakes to congregate near my house. I don't have a problem with Copperheads or rattlers as long as they are in the river bottoms and pasture away from my house. I leave them alone, then.

    These snakes have been eating cicadas. I guess they are easier to find along the mowed lawn next to the taller weeds, grass and brush/trees. I hear the cicadas in the woods, but they're usually here all summer anyway. I didn't expect to be seeing so many Copperheads.

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    I had to look up ( cicadas ) we must call them something different here in Va. But as far as the snake I kill em all .

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    Quote Originally Posted by 44man View Post
    No cicadas here yet and I am disappointed. I want some to eat. They are good!
    How do you prepare them to eat??? Curious minds want to know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by toallmy View Post
    I had to look up ( cicadas ) we must call them something different here in Va. But as far as the snake I kill em all .
    We called them locusts when I was growing up.

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    Like a grasshopper sort of , or a cricket . Ether way I'd kill the snake .

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    Quote Originally Posted by starmac View Post
    We called them locusts when I was growing up.
    Same here but would hear both cicada and locust with Locust being more common.
    I remember in the early 1970's out in Western Nebraska at a rest stop along I-80 seeing huge grasshoppers 3 or 4 inches in length. A man watching me catch them told me they were locusts. I think these are the locusts of the dust bowel era.

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    Quote Originally Posted by toallmy View Post
    Like a grasshopper sort of , or a cricket . Ether way I'd kill the snake .
    A cricket looks like a fat grasshopper, but it's black.
    The grasshopper and locust are the same bug, but they are locusts when a swarm eats your entire county.

    The cidada makes noise by rubbing it's wings ... not it's legs, like crickets and grasshoppers.
    It's a long, low, heavy-bodied bug.

    Comparing by looks, if the grasshopper is a jack rabbit the cicada is a badger.
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    Quote Originally Posted by starmac View Post
    How do you prepare them to eat??? Curious minds want to know.
    I just pulled the wings and ate them. Males are kind of empty though. There are recipes to cook them too. You can grill or fry them. You can eat locust/grasshoppers too but they just taste like grass.
    We have grubs in the ground but I never tried one. My dogs and the fox and skunks dig them up, I find holes all over my yard.

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    I thought you had to cook grasshoppers due to some sort of bacteria or parasite that lives in there gut

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