From the 2016 snake threadCounterpoint said:JSKolache said:There's only 4 venomous in the US. Learn them well & ignore all the others.vander54 said:
If you had to tell someone that knows nothing about snakes a way to identify if a snake is venomous or not what would you tell them?
3 are very easy to ID:
1) rattler - obvious it has rattles
2) copperhead - very distinct color pattern
3) coral - very distinct color pattern /w a neat little rhyme every boy scout learns at age 10
So that leaves #4 - water moccasin - which is the trickiest to ID I think. This one gave me fits until I learned to look for the black eye bar. A thick black eye bar is dead giveaway for a moccasin.
There you go & ignore the rest.
Thanks, this is awesome. What's an example of the thick black eye bar? Is that referring to the "cat eye" pupil that Texas venomous snakes (other than the coral) have?
A little late, but I was going to say 3 metal.chiken said:
Cotton mouth?
SteveBott said:
I know the experts here will cringe at this but triangular head is a good start. Add the red touching yellow kills fellow. And yes I know that includes harmless hog nose and is not bullet proof.
Rufnek said:
What kind of snake is Steve Bott's?
Badace52 said:
It looks like one to me... Location?
Good ID.shortstackaggie said:
Got one in the wild. Diamondback water snake?
https://imgur.com/gallery/PvDJA03
Could be the midland. I did a quick google search and a few images came up that look like it and I've seen a lot of northern water snakes at this same lake where I got this pic (in fact, 12fmane id'd one for me a couple pages back as a northern).Badace52 said:
In that case it may be a midland water snake which is a subspecies of the northern water snake. Banded water snakes are also called southern water snakes and are usually banded further down the body. 12fmane will need to weigh in...
I can't count how many times I have seen a snake over the last year or two, and my first thought was "get a picture for Texags", and usually my phone is somewhere else. Saw a bunch of them dead on the road shoulder between Houston and Austin over the weekend, but figured the rest of the bike riders would be pissed trying to dodge me out there snapping photos of them. Best guess on the ones I got a decent look at was 2-3 water snakes of some variety, a couple of coachwhips, and several rough earth snakes.Walt Luddiger said:
is it weird that missing a picture of a snake is the reminder that i need to keep my phone on me at all times?
saw a diamonback water snake yesterday that had to have been close to the record. So big and dark i initially thought it was an indigo.
