Its venomous, aggressive, AND endangered...what do you do?

[Matejka]

My laundry room is in the backyard, closed in but not sealed at all to keep critters out. My biggest issue is black widows so whenever I'm out in the yard and find daddy long leg spiders, I catch them and release them in the laundry room. There are at least 20 living in there year round and they stay up in the rafters, never seen a black widow in there yet so they're doing their job. Only found 1 in the car port, my husband killed it and 3 egg sacks. We also keep a wood stack in the backyard for lizards to live in, we don't use pesticides at all but the lizards keep the bugs in check. We have a lot of mesquite, skinks, ringnecks during the day and geckos that are nocturnal so it's like round the clock pest management lol. The newest critter that's moved into my yard are thread snakes, they're less than a foot long, as thick as a pencil and pink. All they eat are ants and termites and climb down into the holes in the dirt and clear out the colonies so I'm like make yourself at home little guy's. As long as it won't hurt my kids or my chickens, it's welcome in my yard.

Do they eat fireants?

 

[Hopeful homesteader]

Do they eat fireants?

I haven't checked if they eat those specifically but we do have fire ants here. There are several types od thread snakes though so I'm sure some do and some don't.