Snakes, alligators, sting rays.... Florida residents warned, stay out of flood waters

[Debp]

 

[Lambano]

I used to live in SoFla. One of my co-workers who had just transferred down from our New York office was doing some research on the native flora and fauna, and he noted that we had this one-of-a kind caterpillar that'll sting you when you touch it. This to go with the alligators, four species of poisonous snakes including the beautiful but deadly coral snake that I came within about six inches of touching, poisonous spiders, sting rays, jellyfish, sharks, panthers, barracudas... "Is everything here out to kill me?", he asked.