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Misunderstood.
James Klein, Farmers EC | East Tawakoni
Frightfully fascinating.
Tammy Templin, Pedernales EC | Austin
Nope ropes.
Susan Allen Littlefield | Via Facebook
Better seen than felt.
Lori Gustavsson, Hamilton County EC | Goldthwaite
Lovely to look at, tempting to hold, but if you are bitten, you might not grow old.
Nolan Green, Cherokee County EC | Jacksonville
Creepy, but cool. Most of them.
Lynne Tuttle Phillips | Via Facebook
Good for something—I think.
Steve Bailey, PenTex Energy | Gainesville
Sneaky.
Janet Couch | Via Facebook
Not all scary and venomous. But when you’re walking your granddog home in the dark and an 8-foot rattler wants to say hello—scary!
Kathy O’Nan, GVEC | Seguin
Cool and good rodent control.
Marcia Herald | Via Facebook
A service that pest control companies cannot provide—for free.
Sandra Valderaz, Pedernales EC | Leander
A part of Texas.
Peggy Fogle | Via Facebook
Great. Some are very beneficial. It just doesn’t take me long to look at one.
Cat Crisp, CoServ | Rhome
Cursed because of the incident in the Garden of Eden.
Betty J. Kanipe | Via Facebook
Not on my menu.
Paul Page, Jasper-Newton EC | Kirbyville
Unnerving but necessary to the ecology.
Marcyl Howell | Via Facebook
Very dangerous to your health.
Nancy Pace, Heart of Texas EC | Cameron
“Banned from all animals … to crawl on their bellies and eat dirt” (Genesis 3:14). Despicable!
Loretta Bedford, Deep East Texas EC | San Augustine
Out of place in my garage.
Fonda Quinn, Farmers EC | Fate
Adrenaline producers when noticed.
Rick Bottorff | Via Facebook
Mostly good, but they’re still hard to tolerate.
Jim White, Central Texas EC | Fredericksburg
Creepy. Hate ’em.
Marie Samuels | Via Facebook
Amazing. Beautiful. Incredible. Helpful. Necessary.
Susie Baker, Wood County EC | Winnsboro
Cold-blooded eating machines.
Larry Grant | Via Facebook
The devil’s advocates in the reptile world.
Brenda Hinz, Cherokee County EC | Whitehouse
Slithery.
Jeanmarie Pestlen | Via Facebook
The only thing that will make me pee my pants.
Karen Jackson, Trinity Valley EC | Forney
Falling down on the job if they are supposed to be so good at rodent control.
Louis Schmidt | Via Facebook
A heart attack waiting to happen.
Charlotte Larson, Grayson-Collin EC | Celina
Like people: some good, some bad.
Steve Yates, Pedernales EC | Wimberley
The lowest of God’s creatures and are very, very scary to me.
Cathy Martel, Sam Houston EC | Livingston
No. Just no.
Cathy Humble, Concho Valley EC | San Angelo
In need of a better public relations manager.
Gilbert L. Blount, Pedernales EC | Horseshoe Bay
One of God’s beautiful creatures who deserve to live a life without being harmed or feared.
Anita Patel, South Plains EC | Lubbock
Preferable Thanksgiving guests than my family.
Christopher Perdue, Pedernales EC | Cedar Park
An evil presence in our world, and all poisonous ones need to be dispatched immediately.
Danny Phillips, Deep East Texas EC | Garrison
Incredibly beautiful reptiles.
Debbie McKenzie, Bryan Texas Utilities | Bryan
Hugely, like enormously, misunderstood. Tremendously beneficial.
Dan Keesee, Bartlett EC | Salado
A necessary evil.
Frank George, Jasper-Newton EC | Kirbyville
Dead when I see one.
Jon Scott Anderwald | Via Facebook
Vital members of the Hill Country ecosystem whether we humans like them or not.
Debbie Finney Lee, Central Texas EC | Sisterdale
A necessary evil. Long live the king snake.
Benny Calvit, Bowie-Cass EC | De Kalb
Beautiful and beneficial, we just need to give them their space.
Kate Owen, Sam Houston EC | Coldspring
Not fun to get out of toilets.
Holly and Rob Saffell, Pedernales EC | Georgetown
As bad as picking cotton from the boll at age 8 years old with your mom, dad and family. If you’re not careful, you’ll get pricked.
Ricky Ray Williamson, South Plains EC | Lubbock
Beautiful, endlessly fascinating to observe, critical to a healthy environment, a reminder of how wonderful “wild” Texas can be.
Donald H. Miller, Bluebonnet EC | Burton
Fun to hold—if they aren’t poisonous.
Janet Legler Luft, Pedernales EC | Austin
Great to eat, especially rattlesnakes.
Mike Trammell, Bluebonnet EC | Smithville
Scary, mysterious, fascinating and beautiful all in one length.
Donna Hinton, San Bernard EC | Fields Store
Scary, but we need them to get rid of the other scary—rats.
Sandra Gonzalez, San Patricio EC | Taft
Delicious when fried.
Joe Freeman, South Plains EC | Lubbock
Very cool looking, but the ones with poison are scary.
Diana Demski, Medina EC | Castroville
Scaly tadpoles who bite people.
Ryder Brooking (age 11), Pedernales EC | Austin
Good and bad.
Gary Galloway, Tri-County EC | Weatherford
Part of nature. Embrace them.
Evy Gillum, Pedernales EC | New Braunfels
Able to make you hurt yourself.
Jean Altman, HILCO EC | Aquilla
Not in Ireland anymore.
Angie Burkes Kissire | Via Facebook
Misunderstood creatures.
Darlene Cranston, Nueces EC | Ingleside
Beautiful and useful. Instead of killing them just move them to another part of your property or take them into the woods.
Melissa Bishop, San Bernard EC | Bellville
Annoying. Especially the venomous ones. I look out for them all the time.
Eddie T. Rendon, Victoria EC | Inez
The reason I can’t live my dream of moving to the country.
Cassie House Schneider, GVEC | Cibolo
Very beneficial to our planet. The only exception are the ones not native to our area.
Conn Eastwood, Magic Valley EC | San Juan
Not your enemy unless you provoke them.
Kathleen Gordon, United Cooperative Services | Cleburne
Afraid of us.
Tammy Belinski, Bryan Texas Utilities | Bryan
Mesmerizing. They absolutely fascinate me. Anything that can move that quickly and quietly without legs or arms is just really cool to me.
Donna Davis | Via Facebook
Helpful garden friends. Leave them alone and they’ll pretty much leave you alone.
Teresa Brantley, Navarro County EC | Kerens
Out there.
Doris Hunnicutt, Bluebonnet EC | Lockhart
Good at making you soil your new undies.
Steve Huckaby, Navarro County EC | Purdon
Here for a reason.
Ted Pasche, CoServ | Argyle
Important to our ecosystem and not odorless.
Jo Ann Manning, Wise EC | Chico
Dangerous. They make you hurt yourself.
Kerry Koneman, Navasota Valley EC | Buffalo
Gorgeous mysterious creatures of the earth.
Vicki Marottaswanson, Fayette EC | Round Top
Worthy of our cringe and our respect.
Natalie Shubrook, MidSouth EC | Montgomery
Said to taste just like chicken. Maybe, but you know good and well at least 10% of the thing is going to taste just like snake.
Dan Phillips, Pedernales EC | Georgetown
