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Quote: That is doubtless true in the SW but there are many many other areas of the country where you would have a lot of trouble finding anything venomous if I paid you $5,000 and gave you two solid weeks to look... So it depends where you live. Pat

Quote: I really really don't think cottonmouths get as far west as Charlotte. And that's a pretty 'inclusive' map that I suspect is based on all existing records, even outliers -- when I was in Durham back in the late 1980s-early 1990's, cottonmouths did not get to Durham and not really even...

good post! just wanted to add: a whole variety of perfectly harmless snakes will sometimes vibrate their tailtips, making a rattling noise against leaves etc, when threatened - not just rat snakes. Another useful thing to know is that if it is glossy-shiny, it ain't poisonous, not in North...