Jonesella - NO! Not poisonous. They will bite if you pick them up wrong, and it hurts, but they have no venom. Racers eat rodents and insects and small birds. Good things to have around your landscape. Not so good around a chicken coop if you have tiny chicks, but you can use screens and keep them out until the chicks are bigger.

Nope, not a Corn, and definitely not a Copperhead. This is an Eastern Milk Snake(Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum), a member of the family that includes the King Snakes. The pattern on the head is different from a Corn, and these look nothing at all like a Copperhead, not even close.

Even more disturbing is that there are "professional" snake removal "experts" who recommend and use these awful traps as a "humane" alternative to killing snakes! What's humane about what you see above, please tell me? Even if the snake is found and released, a tedious process involving pouring oil all over the animal and waiting for it to break the connection of the glue, very often the snake has already been injured internally if not visibly, and now it's nostrils are clogged with thick oil. Its release usually just means it will go off and die elsewhere. Due to their metabolism, reptiles die much more slowly and feel pain for a longer period of time than a mammal or bird exposed to the same sort of abuse. No animal, not even a pest rodent species, deserves this kind of torture.

Appears to be an anerythristic corn snake. Quite common...who ever had the snake should know that and have further information for you.