NWR Field Notes

By Kristy Wolski, Reporter
Last Updated: Saturday, August 7, 2010
SAFETY HARBOR —
A day on the job could have been deadly for a group of landscapers on Saturday afternoon.
The group was cutting down a tree at a house on 3rd Street South when killer bees started to swarm.
Anthony Cimillo was one of the landscapers who was [...]

By Angeeneh Adamian, Reporter
Last Updated: Sunday, August 8, 2010
ST. PETERSBURG —
After a weekend killer bee attack, a beekeeper says Florida may be at the beginning of a dangerous trend.
Rodney Tyoe is a beekeeper who runs his own bee removal business.
On Saturday, Tyoe responded to the scene of a bee attack after more than 50,000 bees [...]

HOLIDAY - A large Boa Constrictor was found hiding in a home gutter Tuesday, giving the man who found it quite a scare.
“I ran!” said Joe Saint Aubin, a longtime lawn man who was cutting the grass at a customer’s home when he spotted the bulging five-foot snake peeking from a drain pipe.
“Nobody lives here. [...]

OXFORD, FL - An 8 1/2 foot long Burmese Python escaped from an aquarium during the night, in a home with 3 small children sleeping in their beds. When the owner discovered the snake missing in the morning, two year old Shaiunna Hare had already had the life squeezed from her.
In the 911 call to police, Charles [...]

Every once in a while, we get a call to remove a snake, and when I we get there we find a huge python or boa constrictor. These are considered “domestics”, and it is always assumed that they were set loose by some irresponsible owner who could no longer feed and take care of the [...]

On Friday we responded to a call about an odor in a closet. When we arrived we could tell that it was definitely a dead animal odor. The tech went into the attic and retrieved a female rat and 4 young. He then treated the area with enzymes to eliminate the odor, problem solved!

Or [...]

Well the maternity season for bats is under way.

 
We received a phone call on Saturday from a property manager of an apartment complex in Largo. She was frantic…stated that a tenant had just come in a reported that bats were all in her walls. So we sent out Tommy, our on-call tech, to assess [...]

Nuisance Wildlife Removal Inc.is proud to announce free trapping. Two ways to qualify.
1.  NWR will do one job per month to a needy individual to remove wildlife or handel some other critter problem  like rodents or rats for them at no cost. Please call to see if you qualify for this exciting offer. Or e-mail [...]

OK so I’m new to Florida, I admit it.
Today I had something happen that really got me laughing. While i was out drumming up new leads, I left the dogs in the back yard. It’s fenced in so I was certine they could’nt get into any trouble. (how wrong I was.) When I stoped in for lunch one of [...]

Woke up with the sun ready to learn how Nuisance Wildlife Relocation does things here.
The people I met were the nicest people you could ever meet.  Jeff sent me out with Randy, he and I talked about interesting jobs and and the types of animals i could expect to handle here in FL.  I talked to him about [...]