What Kind of Snake ??

Rikkn said:
Not a northern watersnake, out of their range, and markings are different. Our lake is known for copperheads, black snakes, and cottonmouths.
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You're well within the range of the Northern Watersnake(and Southern also for that matter) and there's a lot of variation in the different subspecie's markings. We have a similar common watersnake down here that is also often mistaken for a cottonmouth. I saw one a couple weeks ago after some heavy rains and had to look twice to be sure it wasn't poisonous.

Bob
 
"This is either a Banded water snake or a Midland water snake depending on how far north and west you live in S.C. At any rate, a harmless reptile killed out of ignorance."

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Texas Star said:
The last name is spelled Haas or Haast, (I think the latter) and he almost died of a coral snake bite, I believe. He has been bitten by many venomous snakes, and feels that he has developed a degree of immunity. He also survived bites by a blue krait and king cobra. Incredible!

I'm not sure if he' s still living, though.

T-Star
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I'm not sure if he is still alive either. Been to his place twice. He started out by milking Cobras. The venom was to be used to fight polio. They said at that time, 1 oz of Cobra venom was worth 50 ozs of gold. This was in the early to mid 60's.

The last I knew, he had been bitten more than 170 times by some of the most venomous ones there is..
 
Ordinarily, I won't kill non-venomous snakes, and I've even been known to intentionally pick up a bullsnake and bring it to my barn, since they help with rodent control, and therefore, with reducing the frequency of rattlesnake encounters. However, I make exceptions for Nerodia (f/k/a Natrix) species. Ill-tempered SOBs, they are. Only kind of snake that has ever bitten me, and with no provocation whatsoever. Stink, too...
 
windjammer said:
I'm not sure if he is still alive either. Been to his place twice. He started out by milking Cobras. The venom was to be used to fight polio. They said at that time, 1 oz of Cobra venom was worth 50 ozs of gold. This was in the early to mid 60's.

The last I knew, he had been bitten more than 170 times by some of the most venomous ones there is..
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I'm pretty sure Bill Haast is still alive - 98 years old.
 
G-Mac said:
Not everybody is a snake expert, y'know...

Better safe than sorry.
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I used to see snakes I though MIGHT be copperheads, until I saw a real on up close and personal. After that there was no mistaking what was and wasn't a copperhead.
 
this is a variation of a watersnake, if you look at the head although not a great picture you can clearly see the lack of venom glands, had he possessed venom glands the head would have been about twice that size,
 
Bucco said:
Not poisonous. Anything that has a long skinny tail, and does not have a diamond shaped head, is not poisonous (except for coral snakes). Pit vipers= diamond shaped head. Short, fat tails (or rattlers). You know there's only 4 poisonous snakes (in US) - Rattlers, moccosins, copperheads (diamond shaped heads) and the Coral snake. I forget the saying about Coral snakes v King snakes...red against yellow, good fellow...or is it bad fellow? Anyhow....
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Red touch Black, venom lack.
Red touch yellow, kill a fellow.
 
tdan said:
This is either a Banded water snake or a Midland water snake depending on how far north and west you live in S.C. At any rate, a harmless reptile killed out of ignorance.
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i'll second that!
 
Don't have any snakes around here - cause I own a 12 gauge.
 
Snakes do us lots of good, by killing rats and other small vermin. I will only kill a snake (the leg-less kind) if I need to because of it's nearness to my home, and only then if poisonous. I did have to remove (not kill) a blacksnake when it had my wife's cat pinned in a corner of the carport! It was near 9' long! :eek:

Snakes (the reptile kind) are very beneficial to the environment, tourisim and entertainment industries- especially if you live in Texas. :D
 
Can someone else please post the saying for determining the difference between a king snake and a coral snake? It's only been posted 20 times.
 
Not a copperhead or cotton mouth. It is a common brown water snake. They can be agressive as hell if tampered with. Have had a couple try and get in the boat on Jocassee. Real common on Keowee too.I think it's probably common on most of the lakes in SC, NC, GA and FLA. Probably the entire south. Definitely not poison.
 
I stopped killing snakes when I was about 14,learned the differences and appreciate what they do.I like rats,mice,small raccoons,feral cats less than the snakes.
 
In 1960/61 I worked on a suvey crew. Carla came thru and we had about 3000 acres of property line to run on the trinity river---all of it palmetto flats.
I killed 15/20 snakes a day with a 5 ft. brush hook. I did not stop to determine friend or foe---they got whacked.
A good snake is dead.
Blessings
 
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