Big Black-Snake

[DixieRifles]

I thought it was beautiful.

Looks like photo I posted. The ones I saw were usually small and had more white and brighter. My Mom found one in her kitchen cabinet. "They" say these were commonly found in homes.

 

[Ole Miss]

Brit it is a common water snake and harmless to man
Kurt come on down to Shiloh and we will find you a Coperhead or Cotton Mouth
Regards
David

 

[Kurt G]

Looks like photo I posted. The ones I saw were usually small and had more white and brighter. My Mom found one in her kitchen cabinet. "They" say these were commonly found in homes.

Their colors can vary a bit and the younger ones have brighter markings . I found a very young one last year and it was brighter than the adults. Milksnakes are excellent mousers and can go places no cat ever could .

 

[Kurt G]

Brit it is a common water snake and harmless to man
Kurt come on down to Shiloh and we will find you a Coperhead or Cotton Mouth
Regards
David

Shiloh is definitely on my list and I'd love to see either .

 

[Ethan S.]

Awwwww, this lil' guy?

I've been handling and capturing snakes since I was three or four. So far this year, I've caught ten of them. I get bit every now and then, but you'll get used to it.

You wouldn't believe it, but thy're actually soft!

 

[bankerpapaw]

I'm OK as long as I don't look down and see one between my feet.

 

[unionblue]

We got a two foot black snake living in our yard whom we have named "Jerry." He was a little guy that first lived in out bushes around the house when we first moved here. I had always been told that if you gave something that scared you a funny name, they wouldn't seem so scary after a while.

When Jerry would show up at the top of one of our bushes and I would 'round the corner of the house and nearly bump into him, I would yell, "Darn it, Jerry! You scared me half to death!" Then I would just go about my business and Jerry would flick his tongue and would go back to his.

He's grown quite a bit since we first introduced ourselves to one another, back in 2015, growing from about 8 inches to his present length of two feet long. You should see when he sheds his skin! He still prowls around the edge of the house, hiding in those bushes, but every once in a while, he'll sun himself on the back patio or come out at night on the front walk to keep warm at night.

He's family now, and our very first Florida resident to make us feel welcome!

Long live Jerry!

 

[rebel brit]

 

[Kurt G]

Here is one to avoid , the eastern diamondback rattle snake . This small one in Florida was extremely placid and didn't mind getting dragged onto the road for pictures . It never rattled once . I imagine you might find one around Olustee or various sites around the deep south.

 

[Mrs. V]

When I was in field school up on Lake Erie..Stone Lab..we once swam in to a collecting site, and a water snake swam in with us. We have a melanistic variety of Nerodius sippidon sippidon. And they are super agressive here. Maybe they are mad that they are not the correct color??

 

[Kurt G]

When I was in field school up on Lake Erie..Stone Lab..we once swam in to a collecting site, and a water snake swam in with us. We have a melanistic variety of Nerodius sippidon sippidon. And they are super agressive here. Maybe they are mad that they are not the correct color??

Watersnakes usually bite you if you grab them , no matter the species or color type. I always try to think like the snake ." Here comes this monstrous creature many times my size and then it grabs me or comes too close ." I think I would bite as well . They have an evil smelling musk that may be worse than getting bit.The sad thing is that even here in Michigan some people kill them because they think the are water moccasins . I follow a few herping sites on YouTube and it surprises me that so many snakes actually don't bite when picked up . I kept a few snakes many years ago and I had a yellow ratsnake that was about 5 feet long and bit me on my arm , my hand , my face and even my nose . I also had an eastern kingsnake that never bit anyone or showed any aggression at all .

 

[Belfoured]

Never a fan. Just for example, nothing fun about coming off a rock climb in Sinks Canyon outside Lander WY and finding a fat rattler blocking the trail. Which is one nice thing about Teton County - no poisonous snakes. I can tolerate garter snakes. And hopefully the grandma who's beheading rattlers stomps the head into the ground. Decapitated pit vipers have been known to bite and inject.

 

[Mrs. V]

Never a fan. Just for example, nothing fun about coming off a rock climb in Sinks Canyon outside Lander WY and finding a fat rattler blocking the trail. Which is one nice thing about Teton County - no poisonous snakes. I can tolerate garter snakes. And hopefully the grandma who's beheading rattlers stomps the head into the ground. Decapitated pit vipers have been known to bite and inject.

Yes they can! It's that reptile brain. I've also heard stories about snapping turtles people thought were dead..but were still alive to bite.