Can someone identify this snake please?
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Spajohn
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If it's good at mathematics, it might be an adder, although if it's good at baking it may be a piethon.
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ColbyBruce
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Corn snake?
Too bad you couldn't get a photo of the head. Probably non-poisonous, but all snakes give me the creeps.
Too bad you couldn't get a photo of the head. Probably non-poisonous, but all snakes give me the creeps.
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ColbyBruce
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The head end got mangled by the rear tire.
Most definitely a corn snake.
Dozens of variations depending on where they're found.
Very beneficial yet often killed by the ignorant who think copperhead.
Dozens of variations depending on where they're found.
Very beneficial yet often killed by the ignorant who think copperhead.
Corn for sure. One of my favorite variations - sure wish we had colorful verities where I live.
That's my guess. They kinda look a copperhead, which scares some people, but that ain't a copperhead . . .
vigil617
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Bingo on corn snake, as others have already correctly identified.
Copperheads have the brown hourglass shapes on their backs and not as closely spaced as the cornie's pattern.
Copperheads have the brown hourglass shapes on their backs and not as closely spaced as the cornie's pattern.
I know it's not a popular sentiment, but I have a "live and let live" attitude towards snakes. All non-poisonous snakes are free to go where they want ..... poisonous snakes are allowed to live "IF" they are not posing a threat to my family or me.
When I was really young my grandfather taught me and my cousins how to identify snakes, and the non-poisonous ones were caught and released in the corn cribs and near the barn to control rats and mice....the poisonous ones were killed if near the house, but otherwise allowed to go on their way.
Don
When I was really young my grandfather taught me and my cousins how to identify snakes, and the non-poisonous ones were caught and released in the corn cribs and near the barn to control rats and mice....the poisonous ones were killed if near the house, but otherwise allowed to go on their way.
Don
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Guess he should have flown his 'Don't Tread On Me' banner.
It's a ribbon snake now. < < < rimshot > > >
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panther
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One of the nice things about winter weather in Missouri is that we don't see snakes until Spring. Your weather must be alot warmer then ours.
I've said it many times.
I'd rather have harmless non venomous snakes around my house than have rats and mice inside of it.
Other than the Coral snake, it's easy to tell which ones are venomous. I killed a few water moccasins the first year I had my house built.
Excellent thought
5-Shot
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if it's still around, flip it over and check it's belly. It has a very distinctive pattern.
Ed
Ed
It sure looks like the southern hognose snake. Is that the same as a corn snake?
