Snakes In Your Area

[Bluebasser86]

We have lots of species of snakes here in NE Kansas. The copperhead is the only fairly common venomous snake followed by the Timber Rattlesnake. Contrary to what lots of people will tell you, there are no cottonmouths within an hour or so of here. I've seen them in the Ozark streams and a couple times on Table Rock, but never this far north into Kansas. 

[Siebert Outdoors]

We have Cottonmouths & Copperheads mostly.  They say we have timber rattlers but I've never seen one.  On the nonvenomous side we have a ton of different ones.

[Smells like fish]

We have about a 30 to 1 ratio of copperheads to Timber Rattlers here in the southeastern hills and of course all the friendly varieties. The western part of Ky has plenty of Cottonmouths 

[J Francho]

17 species, but just timber and Massasauga rattlesnakes and copperheads are venomous.  I've never encountered any of the venomous ones.

 

https://www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/2016/06/meet_new_yorks_17_slithery_snakes_--_three_are_poisonous_to_humans.html

[padlin]

Google says we have northern copperheads and timber rattlers, never seen the copperheads but ran across the rattler blocking the trail in the Taconic Mts on the MA/NY border. That's the only poisonous snake we've come across in 50 years of hiking.

[Bird]

Many varieties of snakes here in the mountains. 

They really don't bother the wife and I but feel obligated to dispose of the poisonous ones. 

Here are a few in the yard. 

[Bankbeater]

Most of the snakes I run into are not poison.  Every once in a while I will run across a copperhead, but I don't think I've ever ran across a timber rattler, or a cottonmouth.

[N Florida Mike]

We have numerous non venomous snakes: Garters , rat snakes  are very common. Lots of banded water snakes too.

We have diamondback and pygmy rattlers, lots of cottonmouths and  a few coral snakes. I actually saw a copperhead also  once a few years ago on a dirt road in st Johns county. They are said to only exist in west Florida. But there’s at least one in N.E Florida!

[LonnieP]

Rattlers and copperheads around here. Friend of mine got bit by a copperhead a few years ago. Had to get 2 vials of antivenom at $40,000 a piece. 

[J Francho]

11 hours ago, LonnieP said:

Had to get 2 vials of antivenom at $40,000 a piece.

Was some of this covered by insurance?

[N Florida Mike]

A man I worked with got bit by a cottonmouth and nearly died when he had an allergic reaction to the anti venom…

[fin]

My neighbor’s little dog got killed a couple weeks ago by a copperhead. She was sitting in carport and heard the dog barking at the snake which was curled up under the car tire in the carport. She went to get a shovel and when she got back the snake was dead and the dog was bit. Took several hours for the dog to die. Really sad. Sweet dog too. I wouldn’t expect a snake to come into the carport like that. Copperheads are scary. Almost invisible in leaves, and they just freeze instead of puffing-up or trying to escape.

[LonnieP]

12 hours ago, J Francho said:

Was some of this covered by insurance?

Yes I Think they paid most of it 

[NYWayfarer]

On 5/18/2022 at 3:26 PM, J Francho said:

17 species, but just timber and Massasauga rattlesnakes and copperheads are venomous.  I've never encountered any of the venomous ones.

 

https://www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/2016/06/meet_new_yorks_17_slithery_snakes_--_three_are_poisonous_to_humans.html

I never thought to much about venomous snakes in NY.
 

That was until I was visiting friends who rented an island campsite on Lake George. They told me be careful as a Timber Rattlesnake was seen on the island. I thought they were joking. A rattlesnake on a island in the middle of a lake? Yeah, they swim out to the island from shore. 
 

Needless to say it was a short visit. I was on the first boat outta there.

[Bird]

Another tree snake this morning and this is the first one I've seen on the ground.

[CountryboyinDC]

We're mostly inundated with politicians, as far as snakes in the grass go.  Spew poison everytime they open their mouths.

[GaryH]

In the craw space in the barn my friend was cleaning out in Texas.

 

 

[Bird]

4 minutes ago, GaryH said:

In the craw space in the barn my friend was cleaning out in Texas.

 

 

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[ike8120]

I have only seen garter and water snakes where I fish. I don't like either of them.

[Dwight Hottle]

21 minutes ago, GaryH said:

In the craw space in the barn my friend was cleaning out in Texas.

 

 

 

Is that all?

[jbmaine]

Mostly garter, milk ,water, or corn snakes here in Southern Maine. I've  read that Maine and Alaska are the only two states that don't have venomous snakes. Could never understand how the venomous snakes knew not to cross the border, but that's what I've read.

[TnRiver46]

6 hours ago, GaryH said:

In the craw space in the barn my friend was cleaning out in Texas.

 

 

[cheezyridr]

in delaware, we have copperheads, black snakes, garter and ribbon snakes, and moccasins. but i want to tell you of an encounter i had in maryland...

 

i used to have access to a little fishin hole near millington.  me and 3 of my buddies fished it regularly,  but no one else did. you couldn't fish there without getting covered in mud.  but it was worth it.  well, one day i was walking through a fallow field on the way in.  i saw the waist high grass moving and something was coming my way.  i assumed it was a groundhog, so i stopped to let it pass.  next thing i know, a  massive snake does a periscope maneuver, and looks me right in the face.  his head was bigger than my fist, his neck, the size of my wrist. it was bronze colored, with a yellowish-white underbelly.  i'm not  tall, only 5'7". that snake was about 14" from my face. of course i froze.  no weapons, all i had was my fishing gear. i was alone, and no one knew i was there.  after a few seconds, it took a dive to my left, and continued on it's way. i watched 12' to 15' of snake pass me by in the grass, the middle of it might have been 4"-5" in diameter. i never told anybody, because i never thought anyone would believe me.  however, i also never cut through that field again, i never came without a weapon,  and never came back alone. i also never saw the snake again.  fast forward 25 years... i haven't been there in ages because i don't know who owns the property anymore. i was talking with a buddy about how much i missed going there, it was a great fishin hole. he says to me "i used to love going there, until i saw a giant snake, and never went back again." i can't find any pics of a similar looking snake.  i have no idea what kind of snake it was.  surely not something native to maryland.  i feel like i was real lucky that day.  if that snake attacked me, i would have been a gonner for sure. thank you Jesus, for keeping me safe

[hokiehunter373]

19 minutes ago, cheezyridr said:

in delaware, we have copperheads, black snakes, garter and ribbon snakes, and moccasins. but i want to tell you of an encounter i had in maryland...

 

i used to have access to a little fishin hole near millington.  me and 3 of my buddies fished it regularly,  but no one else did. you couldn't fish there without getting covered in mud.  but it was worth it.  well, one day i was walking through a fallow field on the way in.  i saw the waist high grass moving and something was coming my way.  i assumed it was a groundhog, so i stopped to let it pass.  next thing i know, a  massive snake does a periscope maneuver, and looks me right in the face.  his head was bigger than my fist, his neck, the size of my wrist. it was bronze colored, with a yellowish-white underbelly.  i'm not  tall, only 5'7". that snake was about 14" from my face. of course i froze.  no weapons, all i had was my fishing gear. i was alone, and no one knew i was there.  after a few seconds, it took a dive to my left, and continued on it's way. i watched 12' to 15' of snake pass me by in the grass, the middle of it might have been 4"-5" in diameter. i never told anybody, because i never thought anyone would believe me.  however, i also never cut through that field again, i never came without a weapon,  and never came back alone. i also never saw the snake again.  fast forward 25 years... i haven't been there in ages because i don't know who owns the property anymore. i was talking with a buddy about how much i missed going there, it was a great fishin hole. he says to me "i used to love going there, until i saw a giant snake, and never went back again." i can't find any pics of a similar looking snake.  i have no idea what kind of snake it was.  surely not something native to maryland.  i feel like i was real lucky that day.  if that snake attacked me, i would have been a gonner for sure. thank you Jesus, for keeping me safe

Sounds like a watersnake but about 3x too big

 

https://dnr.maryland.gov/wildlife/Pages/plants_wildlife/herps/Squamata.aspx?SnakeName=Common Watersnake

[Pumpkinhead]

I’m in south Florida near west Palm beach and I often take my mtb bike, tackle backpack and rods to find new fishing hole - saw two really decent sized rattlesnake a few weeks back maybe close to 4-5’ and thick. I’m trying to watch for gators and these bad boys casually stroll on by….