Critters at Cabin?

Kimi313

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DH and DD are wanting to stay at the cabins this year for something totally different and more relaxing. I was at the Mouse for Less site reading reviews on cabins and there was one from 2007 that said she had a scorpian in her room, has anyone else ever found one in there room? I can handle armadillos, possums, deer, raccoons, peacocks, and rabbits but not snakes or scorpians in bed with me. Please let me hear some feedback:eek:.
 
Are scorpians even native to FL?

But yes to snakes but I don't think you will find one in your cabin.
 
Yea I was thinking scorpians weren't native to Florida either, I know they are out west in Okl and dessert areas. Yea snakes I will just have to deal with like I do at home except I won't have my dogs there to scare the snakes off. But I figure I will check under the bed each night and they are disney snakes right:confused3.
 
Hi-

It has been a while (a long while) since I have camped in the cabins, but I would have remembered if we were bothered by anything more sursprising than a spider!

I am with you, the little animals are terrific, the snakes at a distance are fine, but scorpions :scared1:--No Thanks!!

Cathy
 

Yes Florida has scorpions.

http://okeechobee.ifas.ufl.edu/News columns/Florida Scorpions.htm

There are no more or less critters around the cabins than there are at any other WDW Resort. The biggest snake I have ever seen in WDW was at The CBR.

Have a great time, enjoy FW.

We have found 2 scorpions in our house. Shortly after we built it, there was one in a closet and one camped out on our stairs. This was about 5 years ago and haven't seen any since. I still check my shoes just in case.

In any event, I think you will be ok during your stay.
 
In the many years I spent in Florida I experienced many scorpions, never in our/a house, but like and pest they have legs and travel, but I wouldn't expect to find one inside as a rule.
Outside i usta find them in piles of bricks, cinder blocks, piles of rock, junk trash stuff, areas like that.
Scorpions would be the last thing I would worry about finding in Florida,even tho they do exist there.

This is a pretty good site to check out on Florida scorpions.

http://www.floridabugs.com/Florida-Insects/scorpions.html


Please don't let this little (all be it scary) pest stop ya'll from having a grand magical vacation,
 
We have stayed in the cabins many times; it is our favorite place to stay. Have never seen anything that creeps, slitters or crawls in the cabins. You may see deer, squirrels and armadillos outside. Based on previous posts I guess there are scorpions but we have never seen any.
 
Frogs were a daily occurrence inside our cabin last August. I was torn between reporting them and worrying they would spray something to 'exterminate them.' I decided to let it go and always make sure I turned the light on when I was walking around to make sure I didn't step on anything.
 
We stayed in the cabins in Oct. We absolutely loved them. We did see a snake in the leaves so i wouldn't let my son go play in them but other then that there were a ton of these little lizards - they were actually cute - one even jumped into our van and took the journey home with us.

One bit of advice i wouldn't let your cabin doors wide open for a long time or a frog or lizard may run in but we didn't see anything in our cabin!

We absolutely loved them and can't wait to go back!!!:cool1:
 
The cabins were the only place we stayed for at least ten years and we never had anything inside our cabin.
 
We live in extreme S.GA and there are scorpions here so I am sure they are in Florida too. But, we found out that they are not extremely poisonous. My then 12 year old DS was stung 3 times on the abdomen when we were camping. He was sitting outside around the campfire. I guess it crawled up his shirt. We called the MD, but basically she said to just watch him. We did, and he was fine. Although he said it was the worst sting he had ever had.
 
I had an unfortunate frog encounter on our Labor Day 2009 trip. From that trip report:

After the show, we headed on back to the cabin, where we once again saw our favorite frog, who waited on us to return home every night.

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He seemed harmless enough, and Jodi really liked saying hey to him each night, but my love for him faded tremendously Sunday night when he attacked me! (Well, maybe not attacked, but it was close enough!)

...

Finally, after a great day, came the killer frog incident:

When we got back to the cabin, the frog was sitting on the same post as it always was each night when we returned. Given that it was in the same place as it was every night so far, you would think I wouldn’t forget about that and casually put my hand on the post, but you’d be wrong. When I touched it without knowing I was about to, I (understandably) freaked. Just a little scream and hand flick, and then everything was fine.

Or so I thought.

When we got up to the door of the cabin and I was looking for the key, I touched my hair. Yup, you guessed it. The flick of the frog had landed him in my hair. If my first scream when I touched him on the post hadn’t awakened our neighbors, the second surely did. It took another glass of wine plus a long shower to get over that.

I lived through the encounter, of course, and surely hope Kermit did too. I hope that upon his second flick of the night, he wound up somewhere safe and happy for him. I guess I’ll never know… (Of course, if any of you wind up in loop 2200 and see our friend, you’ll have to tell him we said hey.)
 
That is a hilarious story!! Mostly because it didn;t happen to me!!:lmao:

I am a fan of the wildlife, just not on my person.

Poor frog, poor you, poor camping neighbors!!

Cathy
 
I've seen a bunch of armadillas and a few snakes around the campground but I've never seen anything in the cabin. A scorpion? That's crazy!!:rotfl2:
 
What about snakes? Has anyone seen those? We never did, but it has been years since we went.
 
I've seen snakes, and gators. The thing that really bothered me, though, especially when I lived in Florida, were the Palmetto bugs. If you've never seen one, picture a flying roach that will crawl up on the table while you are eating a sandwich and ask, "You done with that yet?" Bllleeeeecccchhhh
 















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