NWR Field Notes

Category: Field Notes

  • Lack of rain puts animals on the move.

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    If it doesn’t start raining soon, it’s likely residents will see a lot more snakes and other wildlife on the move.

  • Man stung by killer bees more than 150 times while trimming a tree

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    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…

  • More Africanized bees have been heading to Fla.

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    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…

  • Another feral snake found in Florida

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    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…

  • Deadly Snake Attack in Florida

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    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,…

  • The big snakes are moving in.

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    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…

  • Whats that smell in the closet?

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    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…

  • Tis the season…for bats

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    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…

  • Free Trapping

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    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…

  • Crab VS Dog

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    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…