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That TPWD isn't very well done. Herps oftexas.org is a better resource.
Why you hate ursus so bad
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That TPWD isn't very well done. Herps oftexas.org is a better resource.
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I think its both funny and sad that people are so afraid of snakes, and want to kill them.
I've been bit by several non venomous snakes, and it isn't any big deal...
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What are the long back snakes up to 4 or 5 feet that have yellow stripes down the length of their body?
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I have no particular love for the TPWD website. Half the time I end up telling folks to google TPWD plus whatever they are looking for.
Many photos drives assorted specialists, especially the herper, bonkers. Communications/web folks like pretty pictures, not always accurate pictures. And nice isn't even always a given.---A lot of times is depends on who they get permission from, and free usually wins.
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I am a snake apologist, and while I dont have a lot of experience with then, I love the species and have a live and let live attitude.
We have a place at Texoma and I typically run into snakes quite a bit. So far I've seen ray snakes (he was swimming about 100 yards from the beach and came to the shore) copperheads, cottonmouths and yellow bellied water snakes. I've had trouble distinguishing the 2 latter snakes in the water As they can sometimes be seen tooling around our boat lift.
Can someone help me figure out a way to distinguish between the yellow bellies and cottonmouts? The pictures on page 1 look awfully similar and I know the mouth is a dead giveaway but I don't want to get caught in a bad situation and not be able to tell the difference. I've heard that one or the other swims with its head above the water, but I've also heard that may be a common misconception
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We always called the ribbon snake a garter snake. Is that another name for it or is a garter snake different?
quote:I thought "Red touches Yellow - Kill a fellow" This seems to be an exception.
It's a banner year for snakes by all accounts... I saw one of these sunning on the patio the other day, and had to look it up. Not my pic, the one I saw was blacker than this but I'm pretty sure it was a Texas long-nose snake:
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Sorry to dig up an old thread, but can someone identify this snake? Me and the woman arguing between rat snake and copperhead.