Posted: 5/21/2013 10:52:06 AM EDT
kill it with fire or set it free
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hes a good guy
brown snake, they eat bugs ETA http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/stodek.htm |
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Jacobdw linked the Brown snake.
Also, have a look at the main page for a great resource on ID'ing native snakes in your area. Once you look at the differences between the vipers/elapid vs. all others, ID should be easy. http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/index.htm |
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Jacobdw linked the Brown snake. Also, have a look at the main page for a great resource on ID'ing native snakes in your area. Once you look at the differences between the vipers/elapid vs. all others, ID should be easy. http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/index.htm word.... good to have a general idea what is go and no-go in your area... instead the "HOLY SHIT THIS BIT ME AM I GOING TO DIE?" threads 
I have a BA in wildlife management if that means anything 
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Jacobdw linked the Brown snake. Also, have a look at the main page for a great resource on ID'ing native snakes in your area. Once you look at the differences between the vipers/elapid vs. all others, ID should be easy. http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/index.htm word.... good to have a general idea what is go and no-go in your area... instead the "HOLY SHIT THIS BIT ME AM I GOING TO DIE?" threads
I have a BA in wildlife management if that means anything Around my neck of the woods, ID is second nature now just because of all I've seen over the years. You know what to expect based on location/habitat. But Florida seems a little sketchy to me with all the collectors and exotics that get imported. "Hey, that's a funny looking python?...oh fuck Gaboon!"
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Narrow head, non poisonous. Dare you to plant your lips on the narrow heads of the following: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hZe-yEuUsPc/TubMMnG8GvI/AAAAAAAADyQ/b8TRzUzBjdo/s400/West+Mexican+Coral+Snake.4.jpg http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/007/cache/black-mamba_767_600x450.jpg http://churchfun.com/images/wp/snakes/1.jpg http://churchfun.com/images/wp/snakes/2.jpg Top one is a harmless king snake. On coral snakes the red and yellow are adjacent. |
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Quoted: Jacobdw linked the Brown snake. Also, have a look at the main page for a great resource on ID'ing native snakes in your area. Once you look at the differences between the vipers/elapid vs. all others, ID should be easy. http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/index.htm Look at all of those "water moccasins" on the top list. |
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Narrow head, non poisonous. Dare you to plant your lips on the narrow heads of the following: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hZe-yEuUsPc/TubMMnG8GvI/AAAAAAAADyQ/b8TRzUzBjdo/s400/West+Mexican+Coral+Snake.4.jpg http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/007/cache/black-mamba_767_600x450.jpg http://churchfun.com/images/wp/snakes/1.jpg http://churchfun.com/images/wp/snakes/2.jpg Top one is a harmless king snake. On coral snakes the red and yellow are adjacent. Well you'd be dead wrong on that one. But to be fair, it is a picture of a Mexican Coral snake so the little rhyme you learned as a child doesn't apply. Your test only applies to Eastern Coral, Texas Coral or Arizona Coral snakes. |
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Narrow head, non poisonous. Dare you to plant your lips on the narrow heads of the following: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hZe-yEuUsPc/TubMMnG8GvI/AAAAAAAADyQ/b8TRzUzBjdo/s400/West+Mexican+Coral+Snake.4.jpg http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/007/cache/black-mamba_767_600x450.jpg http://churchfun.com/images/wp/snakes/1.jpg http://churchfun.com/images/wp/snakes/2.jpg Top one is a harmless king snake. On coral snakes the red and yellow are adjacent. Well you'd be dead wrong on that one. But to be fair, it is a picture of a Mexican Coral snake so the little rhyme you learned as a child doesn't apply. Your test only applies to Eastern Coral, Texas Coral or Arizona Coral snakes. Well that rhyme is going to get people killed! I've actually used it for snakes I've seen (one coral snake here in FL). I'm gonna have to do a little research now 
ETA: Sure that's not a sinaloan milk snake in that top picture? I have no clue, I just remember the little rhyme. |
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Jacobdw linked the Brown snake. Also, have a look at the main page for a great resource on ID'ing native snakes in your area. Once you look at the differences between the vipers/elapid vs. all others, ID should be easy. http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/index.htm Look at all of those "water moccasins" on the top list. Haha .
In all honestly, I can see how some people can mistake water snakes for cottonmouths, but everything else should be fairly easy. |