Bush viper snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

Bush viperAtheris squamiger Description: Often called leaf viper, its color varies from ground colors of pale green to olive, brown, or rusty brown. The viper uses its prehensile tail to secure itself to branches. Characteristics: An arboreal species that often comes down to the ground to feed on small rodents. It is not aggressive, but…

BoomslangDispholidus typus Description: Coloration varies but is generally green or brown, which makes it very hard to see in its habitat. Characteristics: Will strike if molested. Its venom is hemotoxic; even small amounts cause severe hemorrhaging, making it dangerous to man. Habitat: Found in forested areas. It will spend most of its time in trees…

The Coral Snake is colorfully marked with rings that are bright blacks, reds, and yellows in color.

Difference in tick appearance when engorged with blood

Ticks are in the same family as spiders and hence share some characteristics with them (e.g. like spiders, Ticks have eight legs). They are parasites living on the blood of other animals a practice which makes them vectors (carriers) of several diseases including Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

Close-up of a Wasp head showing the antenna and eyes

The Wasp, or Hornet (also known as Dirt Daubers, Mud Daubers, Potter Wasps, Velvet Ants, Yellowjackets, Fairyflies), is a rather generic suborder of insects.

Bees are flying insects with brown or black, hairy, fuzz-covered bodies (the hair on their body is used to collect pollen).

Centipedes have multi-jointed body, each segment having a pair of legs, growing to 30 centimeters (12 inches) long, with each pair slightly longer than the pair in front of it.

Black Widow Spiders are dark, usually black, medium sized spiders with light red or orange markings (typically in the shape of an hourglass) on female’s abdomen (underneath the spider’s body).

Scorpions are dull brown, yellow, or black (the most common is the brown Striped Bark Scorpion). Their color often camouflages them and makes it difficult to see amongst rocks and dirt.

The Rosary Pea plant (also known as Jequirity, Crab’s Eye, Rosary Pea, John Crow Bead, Precatory bean,Indian Licorice, Akar Saga, Giddee Giddee or Jumbie Bead) is a small, slender, high-climbing vine that twines around trees, shrubs, and hedges.

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Bush viper snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

Boomslang snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

Coral snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

Tick – the dangers of tick bites, how to avoid them, and how to treat

All about wasps and hornets – their habitat, sting, treatment, and how to avoid their bite.

All about bees – their habitat, sting, and how to avoid being attacked

All about the Centipede – their habitat, sting, treatment, and how to avoid their bite.

All about the Black Widow Spider or Widow Spider – their habitat, sting, treatment, and how to avoid a Black Widow Spider bite.

Scorpion – how to identify, avoid, and treat scorpion stings.

Rosary pea or crab’s eyes – how to identify this poisonous plant and diagnose/treat poisoning.

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