Posted: 8/11/2012 6:15:11 AM EDT
Mowing my front yard this morning, almost ran over this guy. Looks like a young copperhead to me, but wanted to check with the hive.
|
|
Quoted:
Mowing my front yard this morning, almost ran over this guy. Looks like a young copperhead to me, but wanted to check with the hive. http://i50.tinypic.com/29efx9t.jpg looks like a copperhead |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
Mowing my front yard this morning, almost ran over this guy. Looks like a young copperhead to me, but wanted to check with the hive. http://i50.tinypic.com/29efx9t.jpg looks like a copperhead That's what I thought, but there are much better herpetologists on ARFCOM. |
|
Quoted: Quoted: Mowing my front yard this morning, almost ran over this guy. Looks like a young copperhead to me, but wanted to check with the hive. http://i50.tinypic.com/29efx9t.jpg looks like a copperhead +1 if its in your yard terminate with extreme prejudice. eta: looks like a "broad banded copperhead", native to TX. the black dot in the center of the  dark patch looks like a unique mark: |
|
Quoted:
Don't have a good pic - but his head is very triangular shaped too. The head and the belly plates are diagnostic, but the belly plates aren't too useful on a living snake. The pattern is almost unmistakably that of a copperhead, which really is different from all the snakes which are usually mis-identified as copperheads. |
|
oh yeah, thats a copperhead. just leave him alone and he will move on, but not before taking a huge dent in your local rodent population. |
|
Quoted:
Park the law mower on top of it while it's running. Then light the mower on fire. I'm usually not a snake killer, but this species would meet the fate above. No need to have that venomous monster any where near my house where my little one can happen upon it. |
|
Quoted: Quoted: Park the law mower on top of it while it's running. Then light the mower on fire. I'm usually not a snake killer, but this species would meet the fate above. No need to have that venomous monster any where near my house where my little one can happen upon it. that. Ive got enough rat snakes to eat my rodents, venomous snakes get relocated to the compost pile. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Park the law mower on top of it while it's running. Then light the mower on fire. I'm usually not a snake killer, but this species would meet the fate above. No need to have that venomous monster any where near my house where my little one can happen upon it. that. Ive got enough rat snakes to eat my rodents, venomous snakes get relocated to the compost pile. exactly. bull snakes are welcome. rattlers and copperheads get to meet the 12 gauge or a shovel, depending on circumstance. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
why the need to kill copperheads? Exactly my train of thought. Snakes are good. Just escort it out of the yard. one reason: those of us that have kids that we like. while a copperhead bite may not kill an adult it will seriously fuck up a kid if not kill it. anything venomous gets instadeath, non-venomous gets a pass. |