Snake!!!

[TreasureHunter02]

Found this little bugger in my front yard. I'm located in northern Texas. Any ideas?
Really docile and friendly.

 

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[callicles]

Well, one way is to spread your fingers apart, put the snake's head in the flap of skin between your thumb and index finger and let it bite you. If you wake up dead two days later, the coroner will conduct an autopsey, then fill out your death certificate with the type snake that bit you. CNN will then let the rest of us know!!! Lol. Just joking! Man, I don't know, but it does not look venemous, but it appears to be a baby snake, and sometimes they are very hard to ID, at least for laymen.

 

[Backwoodsbob]

Does it have a orange belly?

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[Backwoodsbob]

It's not going to kill you. If your close to water it it a harmless water snake. If not it a young garden or ribbed snake.

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[Broken knee]

It looks like a baby Whip snake? HH

 

[Breezie]

I may get some flack from my feelings, but in my opinion, it's a SNAKE, and I don't like them. Whether they are poisonous or nonpoisonous I don't want them around me and my family (including our dog) when we are in the yard. I know they have a useful purpose, but they can fulfill their purpose somewhere other than where I am. I have a shovel, and know how to use it.

From my understanding, a snake with a pointed/arrow shaped head is poisonous and those with a rounded head are not. Also the venom of a baby snake is more concentrated. At any rate, as far as my yard is concerned, refer to the last sentence in the first paragraph.


Breezie

 

[kcm]

Guess it's been too many years since I've had to worry about snakes. Born/raised in SE Texas, but only have garter snakes here.

 

[Breezie]

Guess it's been too many years since I've had to worry about snakes. Born/raised in SE Texas, but only have garter snakes here.

Here in NC, we have 4 poisonous snakes; 3 rattlers and a copperhead.


Breezie

I stand corrected:
North Carolina

• Carolina Pygmy Rattlesnake - Sistrurus miliarius miliarius
• Eastern Coral Snake - Micrurus fulvius
• Eastern Cottonmouth - Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus
• Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake - Crotalus adamanteus
• Southern Copperhead - Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix
• Northern Copperhead - Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen
• Timber Rattlesnake - Crotalus horridus

http://www.venombyte.com/venom/snakes/venomous_snakes_by_state.asp

 

[gunsil]

What a cutie!!!

 

[kcm]

Gunsil, you staring in the mirror again?!?!?

 

[clv]

Look like one of those Texas size worms I have always been told about, but it does look a little on the small for that!

 

[G.I.B.]

We get these little guys in Florida. Not actually a snake, but a lizard.

 

[Chug And Red]

Ahhhhhhh the Other S word Red Hates Spiders !!! Except the On I Bought Today To Scare the Neighbor pics soon if you Want to See it

 

[smokeythecat]

Put it back in a safe spot or else the heebie jeebies will probably get you. Looks pretty harmless to me. Do not let it go in the house.

 

[smokeythecat]

Hey Breezie, you referring to SNAKES or POLITICIANS?

 

[old digger]

I believe your friendly snake is a Texas Rough Earth snake, ''Virginia striatula''

 

[BosnMate]

I may get some flack from my feelings, but in my opinion, it's a SNAKE, and I don't like them. Whether they are poisonous or nonpoisonous I don't want them around me and my family (including our dog) when we are in the yard. I know they have a useful purpose, but they can fulfill their purpose somewhere other than where I am. I have a shovel, and know how to use it.

From my understanding, a snake with a pointed/arrow shaped head is poisonous and those with a rounded head are not. Also the venom of a baby snake is more concentrated. At any rate, as far as my yard is concerned, refer to the last sentence in the first paragraph.


Breezie

I nominate you for prez of the anti snake bunch. Count me in.

 

[smokeythecat]

You'll hate me then. I swerved the car to miss a highly colored tan, reddish and whitish snake the other night. Probably a house (milk) snake, but possibly a copperhead. Wasn't at my property and I just don't like killing anything. Except things which come after me.

 

[hvacker]

Guess it's been too many years since I've had to worry about snakes. Born/raised in SE Texas, but only have garter snakes here.

Not so sure about that. In Des Planes N.Illinois they have ( or used to ) a rattle snake hunt along the Des Planes River.
I don't recall what kind of rattler.

 

[Spats]

I stumbled up on this guy in Mississippi earlier this year. The picture is a little fuzzy because the photographer was shaking a bit.