Anyone know much about this type of rattlesnake? They've been documented in my county before. I recently attended a forestry meeting and was surprised to hear that some research has been done and they figured out there's more around than I thought. Fortunately I've never seen 1 (that I know of anyway). I've never heard of anyone in Wi getting bit by this poisonous snake though. I guess they like wet areas, but they like to sun themselves on dikes, too.

Rare and endangered in Mo Last I heard, likely extirpated.

Little, cool coloring, we have a few in southeast areas of our state.
Jim

We have some around lake huron, usually around rocky areas , have never seen one. old243

They are not poisonous. You can eat them. They are venomous though.

There is reportedly quite a population of them over here in the Black River bottoms.

Moosetrot

we have them here

We have them in southern Michigan.I saw a couple while fishing in the Fenton area,thats a few miles outside of Flint.

They are protected hear in PA.

They're also documented in the Chippewa River bottoms downriver of Durand. A buddy and I hunt spring turkeys there sometimes, so we're always looking closely before we snuggle up against a tree or tuck into brush if we have a tom closing in.

We have them here in limited numbers, mean little suckers from what I understand.

We have them here in the Cicero Swamp.

What?

Massasauga Rattlers are found throughout Michigan's Lower Peninsula. I have crossed paths with them a time or three in my day. First time was in the late 1950's. I was with my father, who had gone down the road to visit a neighboring farmer friend. The fellow was back in his woods buzzing up firewood with a buzz rig. As we walked along the trail my father suddenly stopped me, then reached down and tail-grabbed a snake off the ground. A quick snap and he had a dead rattler. The snake had just swallowed something and was apparently unable to strike.....either that or my father was very drunk. Each possible, but the latter much more likely! I have the rattles from that snake yet today, over 60 years later. I have eaten their meat in the past, it was tasty. They are now a protected specie here, tasty or not. My experience would leave one to believe they are a somewhat timid snake, although I did have one coil up and rattle at me when I closed in on it. I mounted one years ago for a guy that found one when it buzzed at he and his wife when they were a good way from it, but nearly all others I know of wouldn't rattle unless they were poked at and bothered. I think they are neat as heck.

There's a big difference between poisonous and venomous.
Poisonous = transmitted by touch.
Venomous = transmitted by bite or sting.

There's a fairly concentrated population right near my office in Windsor, ON and like was said a good amount around the Bruce peninsula and into Parry sound.

never seen one outside of a zoo, even then they tend to hide in the enclosure away from the glass and people most of the time you have to look very hard to find them , they are supposed to be the most shy of all the rattlers.

south west Wisconsin is supposed to have them but I have just never seen one.

Got'em here but I haven't seen one in a while.

I’ve removed a few from my yard and garden over the years. I just take them across the road. I have a good amount of wetlands around me

No big deal. Not deadly

Got bit by one three years ago, had one hit my boot last week, and had more close calls with them than I can count. are literally swimming in them here.

Bite isn't terrible. 24 hrs in intensive care, and that was about it