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Thailand’s Snake Season Approaches

Vern — Sun, 30 May 2010 08:48:57 +0000

Thailand’s Snake Season Approaches

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Thailand’s Snake Season Approaches is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Snake season – when the snakes are all over the place, is coming up. June-July is when it starts. The rains become more frequent and the snakes come out after a long period of hiding out in cooler places because [...] Related posts:

Thailand Hike, Thailand Snake

Vern — Sun, 23 May 2010 01:23:36 +0000

Thailand Hike, Thailand Snake

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Thailand Hike, Thailand Snake is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Thailand snakes are so diverse – there are about 45 venomous snakes in Thailand, and this is one of those that has venom, but he’s rear-fanged and has to get lucky to catch you good and bite down chewing the [...] Related posts:

Red Ant (Weaver Ants) Egg Hunting in Thailand

Vern — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:04:26 +0000

Red Ant (Weaver Ants) Egg Hunting in Thailand

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Red Ant (Weaver Ants) Egg Hunting in Thailand is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Not really hunting, because I already found a bunch of nests. Tomorrow if I remember I’ll head back out there and see about harvesting some weaver ant eggs. Weaver ants are the red ants that appear [...] Related posts:

7 Types of Ants in Your Pants in Thailand

Thailand Tarantula Spider Video: Haplopelma Minax

Vern — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:09:00 +0000

Thailand Tarantula Spider Video: Haplopelma Minax

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Thailand Tarantula Spider Video: Haplopelma Minax is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse I found Haplopelma minax (I’m guessing) – a Thailand tarantula spider. Many places online called this a very aggressive spider. It did attack the twig I was prodding him with – but, then that’s more defensive than anything. [...] Related posts:

Tourist Lost in Khao Phanom Bencha Park

Vern — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:18:29 +0000

Tourist Lost in Khao Phanom Bencha Park

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Tourist Lost in Khao Phanom Bencha Park is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse There are some big national parks in Thailand. You don’t want to get lost in one. Khao Phanom Bencha is in Krabi province and is 50 square miles in area. In the jungle you lose direction instantly. [...] Related posts:

Mildly Venomous Thailand Snake: Red Necked Keelback

Vern — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:13:23 +0000

Mildly Venomous Thailand Snake: Red Necked Keelback

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Mildly Venomous Thailand Snake: Red Necked Keelback is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse I let my Malaysian Pit Viper go the other day – and haven’t had time to get the video of that up on YouTube yet. This is my new girl – a Thai girl – but, she’s [...] Related posts:

Eating Scorpion – Overnight in Hospital Story

Vern — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:53:45 +0000

Eating Scorpion – Overnight in Hospital Story

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Eating Scorpion – Overnight in Hospital Story is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse I finally updated the story with the proper videos – the one of me in the hospital I don’t think I’ve posted here before. Eating scorpion story with videos > Related posts:Meditation Overnighter, without the Overnight Eating [...] Related posts:

Thailand Scorpion: Do You Check Your Shoes?

Vern — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:18:43 +0000

Thailand Scorpion: Do You Check Your Shoes?

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Thailand Scorpion: Do You Check Your Shoes? is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse This was a gift from God himself… because God knows how much I love bonuses in the form of deadly beasts. What else does god have to do, he’s not paying attention to anything else apparently. This [...] Related posts:

Visitor from Malaysia Coming! I’m Excited…

Vern — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:47:02 +0000

Visitor from Malaysia Coming! I’m Excited…

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Visitor from Malaysia Coming! I’m Excited… is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse There’s nothing quite like an unexpected guest coming to stay for a week… I really enjoy it. In this case she’s really beautiful… I saw her today. Maybe she’s about a year old I’m guessing. 2/3 of a [...] Related posts:

Thailand Wildlife: Tokay Gecko in Ceiling

Vern — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:20:14 +0000

Thailand Wildlife: Tokay Gecko in Ceiling

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Thailand Wildlife: Tokay Gecko in Ceiling is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse The other night I was pouring some water and almost jumped as something crawled out of the ceiling above my head. Awesome… I was looking at a big 11 inch Tokay Gecko that was partly still inside the [...] Related posts:

Working with Deadly Cobras for a Living

Vern — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:15:17 +0000

Working with Deadly Cobras for a Living

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Working with Deadly Cobras for a Living is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse I just returned from a trip to see my friend that works the cobra show at the beach. He’s been doing it over 5 years and he shared with me many stories about how he catches the [...] Related posts:

Thailand Snakes FAQ Page

Vern — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:14:05 +0000

Thailand Snakes FAQ Page

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Thailand Snakes FAQ Page is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse I created a Thailand Snakes FAQ page to cover some of the most frequently asked questions about snakes in Thailand – especially the poisonous (venomous) varieties. If there’s anything else on the page you think needs mentioned about snakes in [...] Related posts:

Small Cobra Video

Vern — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:41:30 +0000

Small Cobra Video

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Small Cobra Video is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse In keeping with the wildlife and snake theme of the site lately here is a video of a small cobra my friend and I found on the street. We jumped off the motorbikes and shot some video. Neither of us were [...] Related posts:

Cobra Encounter…

Thailand Python Eats a Kid!

Vern — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:27:21 +0000

Thailand Python Eats a Kid!

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Thailand Python Eats a Kid! is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse I ate dinner at a favorite lakefront restaurant last night and on the way back I saw a crowd gathered around a large portrait of the Queen of Thailand… I kept going. It was the Queen’s Birthday. As I [...] Related posts:

Hawaii Man in Pattaya Eats 3 Kamagras and Dies

Cave Snakes in Thailand

Vern — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:00:21 +0000

Cave Snakes in Thailand

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Cave Snakes in Thailand is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse There are snakes all over Thailand – even deep in the caves. The other day a friend and I got a guided tour from a monk through a cave that I’ve been through on about 10 occasions. Usually I just [...] Related posts:

Green Oriental Whip Snake

Vern — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:33:43 +0000

Green Oriental Whip Snake

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Green Oriental Whip Snake is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Found this on a hike today – amazing colors and patterns on this snake. The snake guy at siam-info.de says it’s a “Ahaetulla prasina (Oriental Whip snakes” and found all over Thailand. Mildly poisonous but only if you let him [...] Related posts:

Cobra Encounter…

Vern — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:03:00 +0000

Cobra Encounter…

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Cobra Encounter… is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Flying fast down twisty roads, slammed on the brakes to avoid a cement truck fully parked in my lane – on a blind curve… Speed back up and flying toward the hiking spot just as a light rain began to fall. “What [...] Related posts:

Those Big Black Flying Bees That Don’t Sting

Vern — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:54:37 +0000

Those Big Black Flying Bees That Don’t Sting

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Those Big Black Flying Bees That Don’t Sting is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse These things are big and they make a noise like a humming bird as they fly by, prompting foreigners to duck and find some cover. Thais say these things don’t bite… I guess that’s true because [...] Related posts:

Frog Sex Gets Animalistic on Back Porch

Vern — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:43:40 +0000

Frog Sex Gets Animalistic on Back Porch

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Frog Sex Gets Animalistic on Back Porch is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Ok, there’s vanilla frogsex and there’s that which approaches the boundaries of extreme… this is somewhere in between. If you picture a female human being panting like this frog was – it would be banned from YouTube, [...] Related posts:

Thailand has BIG Wildlife… Jurassic Spider on my Porch

Vern Slapped Down by Snake Expert…

Vern — Sat, 23 May 2009 04:18:30 +0000

Vern Slapped Down by Snake Expert…

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Vern Slapped Down by Snake Expert… is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse If you didn’t see my last post – here it is: Snake in the Dark > I was a little bit stumped by the snake I found last night on the porch but I gave it a shot [...] Related posts:

Green Oriental Whip Snake

Thailand’s Snakes in the Dark

Vern — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:50:11 +0000

Thailand’s Snakes in the Dark

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Thailand’s Snakes in the Dark is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Last night I went out about midnight on the porch to secure the motorbikes together with some steel cables and big padlock like I do every night. Something was strange looking on one of the motorbike seats and it [...] Related posts:

Baby Copperheaded Racer Snake Video

Vern — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:41:01 +0000

Baby Copperheaded Racer Snake Video

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Baby Copperheaded Racer Snake Video is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse 3videos below - These snakes are really beautiful – great colors and patterns, but besides that they are great when they strike. Even this little 12-15″ baby racer has balls at such a young age. They curl up their [...] Related posts:

No, That’s NOT Me on the Elephant

Vern — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:55:58 +0000

No, That’s NOT Me on the Elephant

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No, That’s NOT Me on the Elephant is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse I had a slew of people send me this today. I guess it made the rounds on Twitter. They all thought it was me on the elephant! That would be a blast, but, nope – not me. [...] No related posts.

Nice Spider… A Batik Golden Web Spider

Vern — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:02:22 +0000

Nice Spider… A Batik Golden Web Spider

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Nice Spider… A Batik Golden Web Spider is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Nephila clavata On a hike yesterday I almost put my face through this spider’s web that took up the whole path. I was lucky to see it – and, I’ve never done this before but I used [...] Related posts:

Got Worms? Get FUG a Worm.

Vern — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:12:13 +0000

Got Worms? Get FUG a Worm.

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Got Worms? Get FUG a Worm. is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Every few months it’s a good idea to do some preventative maintenance on the old small intestine / colon. Apparently there are tape worms that hide in pork, beef, fish, and other stuff. If you eat undercooked food [...] Related posts:

Eating Bamboo Worms – Gross Grub Series

My Most Popular YouTube Video?

Vern — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:30:40 +0000

My Most Popular YouTube Video?

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My Most Popular YouTube Video? is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Is this one… Sisaket Genetic Anomaly > Yeah, it’s wrong… but it’s had over 220,000 views so far. Related posts:YouTube: We’re sorry, this video no longer available. Most Popular New Thaipulse Thailand Wildlife Videos up at Youtube Related posts:

Love them Tokay Geckos…

Vern — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:37:00 +0000

Love them Tokay Geckos…

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Love them Tokay Geckos… is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse My mom on first coming to Hawaii was amazed at all the geek-os. She calls them geek-os to this day and no amount of correction ever takes hold. It’s hilarious to hear her say it. We don’t have Tokay geckos [...] Related posts:

7 Types of Ants in Your Pants in Thailand

Vern — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:23:00 +0000

7 Types of Ants in Your Pants in Thailand

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7 Types of Ants in Your Pants in Thailand is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse I woke up last night again with ants forming a trail across my shoulder to get to some Lay’s potato chip remnants that must have been on my shirt and the bed. Seems whenever I [...] Related posts:

2 Thai Snake Photos

Vern — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:38:00 +0000

2 Thai Snake Photos is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Laotian Wolf Snake (dead on road) Orange snake (no idea what kind – must try to find it today online) Related posts:Green Oriental Whip Snake Baby Copperheaded Racer Snake Video Blindfolded Kids Muay Thai Boxing (photos and video) Thailand ODD [...] Related posts:

Hissing Beetle on the Back Patio (Video)

Vern — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:26:00 +0000

Hissing Beetle on the Back Patio (Video)

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Hissing Beetle on the Back Patio (Video) is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse I love Thailand’s variety of wildlife if you haven’t noticed. Yesterday I found a golden tree snake going across the street and a really cool caterpillar (pic below). This morning I found another large beetle on the [...] No related posts.

Poisonous Centipedes in Thailand

Vern — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:47:00 +0000

Poisonous Centipedes in Thailand is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse There are many poisonous things that bite here in Thailand. I was reading an article in the online Pattaya City News about a local Thai man that was bitten by a centipede and he nearly died from it. It sounds [...] Related posts:

Big Green Caterpillars in Thailand (photos)

Vern — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:14:00 +0000

Big Green Caterpillars in Thailand (photos)

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Big Green Caterpillars in Thailand (photos) is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Driving the motorbike to the end of the soi I saw 4 of these amazing bright green caterpillars laying on the road near the curb. I didn’t pick them up at first but went to get my camera. [...] Related posts:

New Thaipulse Thailand Wildlife Videos up at Youtube

Vern — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:39:00 +0000

New Thaipulse Thailand Wildlife Videos up at Youtube

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New Thaipulse Thailand Wildlife Videos up at Youtube is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse I just posted some new Thailand videos at youtube – get ‘em while we can still see youtube. Related posts:Even MORE Thailand videos at YouTube – posted today Thailand Videos at ThaiPulse! 161 YouTube Videos and [...] Related posts:

Scorpion, Pit Viper and Summer Blogging Hiatus

Vern — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:23:00 +0000

Scorpion, Pit Viper and Summer Blogging Hiatus

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Scorpion, Pit Viper and Summer Blogging Hiatus is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse I got some great video footage of a scorpion and some not so great footage of a pit viper that was a bit far away to capture with my lame camera/camcorder but that’ll have to wait. Vern [...] Related posts:

Thailand Bird trying his Damnedest to Impress me…

Vern — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:47:00 +0000

Thailand Bird trying his Damnedest to Impress me…

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Thailand Bird trying his Damnedest to Impress me… is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Some birds are smart, they realize, since they’re in a cage that they might as well entertain passerby visitors. Especially if you’re a bird in a cage in a zoo that doesn’t get many visitors each [...] No related posts.

Thailand has BIG Wildlife… Jurassic Spider on my Porch

Vern — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:12:00 +0000

Thailand has BIG Wildlife… Jurassic Spider on my Porch

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Thailand has BIG Wildlife… Jurassic Spider on my Porch is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse In keeping with the wildlife theme of late I had to get this video up. I was going to grab some things off the clothes line (I’m so domestic), when I saw this thing hiding [...] Related posts:

Visiting Thailand? Careful, There are SNAKES in the Grass!

Vern — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:02:00 +0000

Visiting Thailand? Careful, There are SNAKES in the Grass!

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Visiting Thailand? Careful, There are SNAKES in the Grass! is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Riding the motorbike this morning to get something to eat I finally came across the snake I’ve been trying to find for a while. Sometimes I go on snake hunting excursions here in Thailand to [...] Related posts:

Too Geh or Tokay Lizards? Gekko Geckos?

Vern — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:12:00 +0000

Too Geh or Tokay Lizards? Gekko Geckos?

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Too Geh or Tokay Lizards? Gekko Geckos? is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Finally after 2 years of trying off an on I grabbed a decent sound clip of a too-geh squawking outside the room. When I first got to Thailand I heard the LOUDEST too-geh ever. King too-geh. It [...] Related posts:

Thailand Monkeys Video and Howling Audio

Vern — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:03:00 +0000

Thailand Monkeys Video and Howling Audio

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Thailand Monkeys Video and Howling Audio is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse We went to a mountain top park here in Surat today to see the howling monkeys, but I forgot something that was ESSENTIAL to the video I wanted to get. We'll have to revisit quickly before we leave [...] Related posts:

Thai Culture: The Big Black Bee Observation

Vern — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:40:00 +0000

Thai Culture: The Big Black Bee Observation

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Thai Culture: The Big Black Bee Observation is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/, a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Standing at flag ceremony this morning at a Thai government high school I noticed something. People in America – all people, big or small, act a certain way when a LARGE buzzing creature flies in front of [...] Related posts: