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Anyplace in the U.S. without dangerous animals/snakes/insects/spiders ?

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Not alot around here, Berkeley, CA, but you can get lyme disease from a tick bite. I wear socks that run up my ankles because I sometimes play golf up in the hills.

Used to be mosquitoes buzzing around after dark around here but haven't heard one in a few years.

Snakes? Don't know of any poisonous ones close by.

All in all, relatively safe from dangerous animals around here.

I suppose you could get bitten by a black widow or brown recluse, but it's been years since I saw a black widow, many years and don't know if I've encountered the brown recluse.

Of course there are bees and wasps. I was playing golf with a guy around 8 years ago and he suddenly went running and screaming down the fairway when he disturbed a wasp nest in a fairway tree. I reported the mishap to personnel at the course.

There are skunks around here to some degree, my nose has reported this more than my eyes.
 
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I was reading the spider bite thread and I killed my first black widow at my house today.

So I was wondering if there are any areas of the country where you don't have to worry about being bitten, stung, or otherwise attacked by some dangerous creature.

Here in Oregon, we have bears, cougars, rattlesnakes, black widows, and probably other things.

The desert states have things like scorpions and tarantulas.

Florida and Louisiana have alligators.

Is there anywhere in the U.S. without any dangerous creatures?

Short answer... No.
 
Not alot around here, Berkeley, CA, but you can get lyme disease from a tick bite. I wear socks that run up my ankles because I sometimes play golf up in the hills.

Used to be mosquitoes buzzing around after dark around here but haven't heard one in a few years.

Snakes? Don't know of any poisonous ones close by.

All in all, relatively safe from dangerous animals around here.

I suppose you could get bitten by a black widow or brown recluse, but it's been years since I saw a black widow, many years and don't know if I've encountered the brown recluse.

Of course there are bees and wasps. I was playing golf with a guy around 8 years ago and he suddenly went running and screaming down the fairway when he disturbed a wasp nest in a fairway tree. I reported the mishap to personnel at the course.

There are skunks around here to some degree, my nose has reported this more than my eyes.

Would it surprise you to know there are rattlesnakes in dem dar hills? Not very common...but they’re there.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...area-how-to-identify-poison-bite-12857427.php


Me, I’m generally less concerned about the wildlife than I am the “wild life.”
 
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