Red on Yellow.......

[brerrabbit]

Found my little friend in the front garden this weekend. This was after killin a three foot cottonmouth in the backyard the week before. Must be a good year for snakes.

This is a Coral Snake, you can tell by the red and yellow bands that touch each other. Remember red on yellow your a dead fellow, red on black, friend of Jack, whoever Jack is. They don't have fangs but actually bite you, open up the wound and spit the venom in. Their venom in neurolgical and very similar to that of a Cobra.

Warning, snake picture ahead, but he is very colorful and kind of cute in a snakey sort of way.

http://photopost.wdwinfo.com/showphoto.php/photo/43387/ppuser/11062

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

What did you do with the snake? And there were a couple of other pictures with rattlers in them. Were they taken at your home?? If they were, I would have to move!!!

 

[PatsMom]

I hope the snakes stay in your part of the country and we don't have a great year up here in the northeast!

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

OMG! We almost moved to your area of Texas last summer. I'm feeling a huge sigh of relief that we didn't. I'm not good with snakes.

 

[rabx5]

OMG-I would so always have the vapors if I lived where you lived

What's the story with the gazillion snakes on the garage floor?

It's piqued my curiosity kinda

 

[Tink_Or_Belle]

I doubt I will ever stick around long enough or get close enough to see if the red is by the yellow or by the black

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

I like the picture of the woman with a drink in her cleavage..

I guess I am the only one who thinks that snake is beautiful! Although that's easy for me since I don't have to worry about seeing one of those around where I live.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

 

[KristaTX]

I didn't even know there were coral snakes in Texas . Please keep them down south for me, okay??

 

[diznygirl]

I like the picture of the woman with a drink in her cleavage..

Snake? What snake? That's all I saw!!!



Sorry OP if that is you or a loved one - that gets the Creative Use of Cleavage Award.

 

[brerrabbit]

I have yet to completely figure out how to post pictures so I always just link to where they are saved. As a result whenever I do one sees all the pictures even though I just meant to link to the Coral snake.

To answer the questions, the snake met with the business end of a shovel. The picture of the multiple rattlesnakes was from Tulsa, Oklahoma where the guy in the picture found a nest of rattlers and killed them all with a stick. He said he killed about twenty before he went to the house and got a hoe to kill the rest. The swimming rattlesnake was one that crawled in my boat with me.

The other photos are of Rednecks, from the imaginative cup holder to the guy with the 3 shaved in his back hair. I was trying to explain what a true redneck was to somebody one time. No worries, I am not related to anyone in the pictures. Honest!

 

[JR6ooo4]

I will stick with my rule.
"If it is a snake, it is no friend of mike!"

Mikeeee

 

[Chuck S]

I killed a coral snake last year. It's the first coral snake I had seen in our neighborhood. We have rattlesnakes, though. One of those put me in ICU in 2007.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Coral snakes do love anything pine related, don't they?

The thing to remember about coral snakes, ya'll, is that their mouths are so tiny they'd have to sit there and gnaw on you to get through your shoes or thick clothes. Their venom is the absolute worst, but you really only have to worry if they can bite between your toes or fingers where your skin is thin, or if they get into your sleeping bag and get against any tender, thin skin parts.

Rattlesnakes, copperheads and moccasins don't have this problem, of course, and their venom is strong enough to cause you severe damage.

Personally, I encourage garter snakes and king snakes, and won't kill (although don't encourage) other non-poisonous snakes, like black snakes, milk snakes, rat snakes, water snakes etc. We once actually had a garter snake living under our front porch that was something of a pet. (Of course, she re-paid our hospitality by having her babies in our compost pile, leading to endless trips with itsy little strings of snakes out to the meadow. . .one pet garter snake was enough. We did not need 30!)

I will also, generally, leave moccasins alone. For a fanged snake, they're pretty even-tempered and generally not agressive. Copper heads, rattle snakes. . .those suckers. . .that's why God gave us hoes and .22 pistols!

 

[flaps]

Pretty fella, but glad he's not in my backyard.

 

[quentina]

You need to move....ASAP....

 

[Gina]

We do seem to have a lot of snakes down here... and my experience with coral snakes (or was it a copperhead?) has been that they do *not* subscribe to that whole "they're more afraid of you than you are of them" stuff. Had one literally chase me about 50 feet down a dirt road. Guess I looked at him wrong?? lol

 

[golfgal]

Reason 483 to live in the frozen north-no snakes that can bite and KILL you

 

[raysnkaysmom]

Found my little friend in the front garden this weekend. This was after killin a three foot cottonmouth in the backyard the week before. Must be a good year for snakes.

This is a Coral Snake, you can tell by the red and yellow bands that touch each other. Remember red on yellow your a dead fellow, red on black, friend of Jack, whoever Jack is. They don't have fangs but actually bite you, open up the wound and spit the venom in. Their venom in neurolgical and very similar to that of a Cobra.

Warning, snake picture ahead, but he is very colorful and kind of cute in a snakey sort of way.

http://photopost.wdwinfo.com/showphoto.php/photo/43387/ppuser/11062

creeps me out...but now I know...if red touches yellow I'm officially freaking out...

 

[manning]

Red and yellow kill a fellow = coral snake

Red and black venom lack = milk snake