Identify This Snake!! [pics]

[ladycrotalus]

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More people are envenomated by trying to kill the snake so honestly none of the snakes should be killed. But irregardless, you were naming venomous snakes and i was just saying that there are more then just those. I forgot ringneck snakes are also rear fanged.

 

[M To The Maxx]

Looks like a garter snake. Here is one that I found at my house. That is a garter snake.

 

[DuckFanatic]

Wow, so sorry I didn't check this post... I've had lots of replies. Thanks so much guys

For those of you who said checkered garter.. right on the dot!

Thanks so much for your help, this has been a fun post, feel free to post pictures of your experiences with garter snakes if you want

 

[theOEGBman]

I know its been assessed a billion times, but its definitely a garter. There are many many subspecies that look extremely different, even in a single state. We have plenty of varieties here, and some are bright blue & red, and some are black & yellow. Many snakes will mimic venomous snakes as well, either with the shape of the head, rattling tails, etc. Heck, my corn snakes do all of that and they're definitely non-venomous.

 

[twzlrwho]

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I am retracking . . .that isn't an Illinois garter snake, but our saying here is: long pointed tail non-poisonous and if the tail is short and stubby, poisonous. Does that help?

Most of the time that is how you can tell the sex of the snake. Long and pointy is male. Short and fat female.

 

[gottalovemychickens]

that is a garter snake my friend, this was caught here in colorado and i have two as pets .

 

[roosters97]

For gods sakes

its a a Garter.By the look of it its probably a neonate they have live young,Might be more around up to 50 more! there good snakes eat a lot of grasshoppers ect.

 

[roosters97]

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There are more than four.

Venomous??

1. Rattlesnake
(Pygmy) (Eastern) (Western) (Timber) (Tons of others)

2. Cottonmouth
(Eastern)

3. Copperhead
(Northern) (Southern) (I breed them) Currently I do not have any.

4. Coral
(Don't know a lot 'bout them)

 

[mikeksfarmer]

Its a checkerd garter snake. They are great at eating slugs, snales and worms. There populations are encouraged by human structures, and that we often kill the other snakes in the area. they can have babies their first year and most others take several years to mature to reproduction. They do not eat mice.

 

[codybird]

I should have said four species and venomous instead of poisonous.

I apologize, because I didn't know I was giving a seminar to herpetology experts.

Antivenin, take that.