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Re: Snakes! [Re: Gulo] #7882743
06/11/23 07:32 PM
06/11/23 07:32 PM
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Central Texas
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I really like snakes.


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Re: Snakes! [Re: Gulo] #7882793
06/11/23 08:37 PM
06/11/23 08:37 PM
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uniontown pa
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uniontown pa
Awesome pics


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Challenge your limits
Re: Snakes! [Re: Gulo] #7882829
06/11/23 09:26 PM
06/11/23 09:26 PM
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Arkansas
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Arkansas
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Timber rattle snake

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Prairie kingsnake


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Yellow bellied watersnake

Re: Snakes! [Re: Gulo] #7882831
06/11/23 09:27 PM
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Arkansas
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Arkansas
We have a multitude of species - but nothing as common as used to be. I think the hogs and gators have taken a lot.

Re: Snakes! [Re: Gulo] #7882838
06/11/23 09:40 PM
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Wisconsin
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Wisconsin
Every snake I see I kill don't like snakes

Re: Snakes! [Re: Gulo] #7882882
06/11/23 10:39 PM
06/11/23 10:39 PM
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Champaign County, Ohio.
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DeKay's brownsnake. The most common snake on my farm.

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Butler's Garter Snakes

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Eastern Garter Snake eating a Fowler's Toad.

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Black Rat Snakes

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Keith

Re: Snakes! [Re: Guss] #7882893
06/11/23 11:03 PM
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Sumner, Mo.
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Sumner, Mo.
Originally Posted by Guss
Every snake I see I kill don't like snakes


I hope you don’t see many.

Re: Snakes! [Re: Gulo] #7882907
06/11/23 11:25 PM
06/11/23 11:25 PM
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central arkansas
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Timber. There was kids in the area, so unfortunately my son had to dispatch. Skin may go on the back of a bow. We ate the rest.

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Re: Snakes! [Re: Gulo] #7883023
06/12/23 07:16 AM
06/12/23 07:16 AM
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Henry Co, IL
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What is the full grown size for the rubber boa?

Re: Snakes! [Re: Gulo] #7883067
06/12/23 08:04 AM
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Idaho, Lemhi County
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Keith, WhiteCliffs, Range - Great shots. Thanks for contributing. I know very little about snakes from other areas. Good to see pictures. Thanks.

Chancey - Yes! I'd love to see some Texas specialties!

3togo - On the rubber boas, a 2-footer is good-sized. They have a slow metabolism and consequently, very slow growth. Incredibly, a two-footer may be 50+ years old! Because of this incredibly old-age, I move every one I find, off the road.


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Re: Snakes! [Re: Gulo] #7883102
06/12/23 08:51 AM
06/12/23 08:51 AM
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I wish I could post a picture of the Coachwhips we have around here but I never get that close. Those things can all but fly.


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Re: Snakes! [Re: Leftlane] #7883110
06/12/23 09:00 AM
06/12/23 09:00 AM
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Georgia
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Originally Posted by Leftlane
I wish I could post a picture of the Coachwhips we have around here but I never get that close. Those things can all but fly.


That they can. Seems almost physically impossible for something without legs to move like that.


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Re: Snakes! [Re: Gulo] #7883113
06/12/23 09:03 AM
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The Hill Country of Texas
Oh yeah, until I saw them in action, I would have assumed someone was exaggerating but no. They can flat out move.


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Re: Snakes! [Re: Gulo] #7883148
06/12/23 10:02 AM
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Rodney,Ohio
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Rodney,Ohio
Accidentally stepped on this one at the golf course last week. He wasn't happy.

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Re: Snakes! [Re: Leftlane] #7883169
06/12/23 10:59 AM
06/12/23 10:59 AM
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Lower Alabama (Daleville)
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Lower Alabama (Daleville)
A few Eastern Coachwhip pictures

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Note to self- Engage brain before opening mouth (or hitting the ENTER key/SUBMIT button).

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Re: Snakes! [Re: Gulo] #7883170
06/12/23 11:06 AM
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SW Pa
Those garters love toads. I seem them often having dinner. Love the black rat snakes. We have many around here. All that we catch and remove from jobs come home with me.

Re: Snakes! [Re: Range] #7883180
06/12/23 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Range
I’ve seen several of the garter snakes on the road recently and one rubber boa down here.

I was in Illinois a couple of weeks ago and this guy attacked me. He is an eastern hognose.
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I did a little reading about them and now wished that I would have fought back to see if it would have played dead. The Wikipedia says they will play dead if the hissing and striking don’t work. I just took a couple of pictures and went on my way.


Here are a few pictures of an Eastern Hognose that I found in my yard some years ago. I don't find them very often.

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Note to self- Engage brain before opening mouth (or hitting the ENTER key/SUBMIT button).

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Re: Snakes! [Re: Gulo] #7883428
06/12/23 08:18 PM
06/12/23 08:18 PM
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Adirondacks, NY
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Adirondacks, NY
DONT KILL SNAKES

Re: Snakes! [Re: Gulo] #7883439
06/12/23 08:38 PM
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Champaign County, Ohio.
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Originally Posted by Bob Jameson
Those garters love toads. I seem them often having dinner. Love the black rat snakes. We have many around here. All that we catch and remove from jobs come home with me.


Those black rat snakes were in a friend of mines pigeon loft. He was complaining that a snake was killing his pigeon squabs. The snake would constrict the squabs and try to swallow them and then spit them out, because they were to large to swallow. I looked up and said "I suspect it's those 2 screwing (except I used a different impermissible synonym) snakes!". He didn't understand what I was talking about and why I was laughing so hard, when he asked me several times, "What screwing (synonym) snakes!"

I pulled the snakes, which were in mid-coitus, down from the rafters. He wanted to kill them, but I talked him into letting me take them with me. I let them go here.

Keith

Re: Snakes! [Re: Fisher Man] #7883445
06/12/23 08:47 PM
06/12/23 08:47 PM
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Champaign County, Ohio.
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Champaign County, Ohio.
Originally Posted by Fisher Man
DONT KILL SNAKES


The hognose snakes in the pictures are playing dead. When startled they flatten like a cobra, rattle their tails like a rattlesnake and then strike repeatedly, without even opening their mouths. If that doesn't work, they throw up their stomach contents and roll over and play dead. If you turn them right side up, they roll back over and play dead.

Hognose snakes mostly only eat frogs and toads. You can trick them into eating other prey or meat by sprinkling frog juice on it. A friend of mine sells tens of thousands of dollars in frog juice annually, just for reptiles that eat amphibians.

Over half of my income comes from selling food for reptiles. Many US zoos buy product that comes through me.

Keith

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