Sharon, Thank you for this very informative article! I totally agree about leaving the native wildlife and critters alone ... they were here long before we were and they have a place in nature. I am petrified of snakes, both venomous and non-venomous, so when I come across them in the garden I usually just go inside for awhile until they go their merry way.
We have a lot of non-native, invasive snakes, lizards and frogs in parts of Florida and they are slowly displacing the native wildlife. Thank goodness I don't live in the part of the state that has those humongous pythons and lizards ... I'd never dig in the dirt again!
Thanks again for the great article!
Lin
