Scary snake identify
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Comments (4)Oh, MAN! That is one of the prettiest Eastern Diamondbacks I've ever seen! It must have recently shed its skin to have such bright colors and patterns! They are awesome snakes, scary or not, and getting very rare throughout much of their range. Florida is probably their last stronghold. Sharon McKenzie...See MoreHelp identifying a snake
Comments (7)I concur with fhfchrish....ditch the glue traps! Those things are extremely barbaric and result in very slow, drawn-out suffering of captured animals, especially reptiles, which take a long time to die, but which also have very advanced sensory nervous systems, meaning that they feel pain very acutely. If you wouldn't do this to a puppy or kitten, it's just as wrong to inflict this torture on a reptile. IF you accidentally capture a snake or lizard on a glue trap, you can spray PAM cooking spray on it or pour cooking oil on it to dissolve the glue and gradually let the animal work itself loose, but often by the time they are discovered they have seriously injured themselves trying to escape....See Moreidentify snake
Comments (1)That is a Smooth Greensnake (Liochlorophis vernalis). Their bodies often turn a shade of blueish green after death. In life they are bright green. Completely harmless species that eats caterpillars and grubs....See MorePlease identify this snake
Comments (2)Eastern Hognosed Snake (Heterodon platirhinos). Harmless toad-eaters. That snake looks suspiciously skinny at the posterior end of the body. Might be a female that just finished nesting. They lay eggs in burrows or hollow logs, etc. The babies are cute as all heck!...See More- 8 years ago
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I zoomed in on my pictures...this shows what looks like a different snake directly under the big black one.
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They are back this morning. Big black
one on top of shed door and other one that looks completely different has its head out on the left of the door. - 8 years ago
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