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TigerTony
TigerTony Posts: 1,078
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My daughter found three of these snakes in her garden. She is worried that they are poisonous.
If you can help identify, I would appreciate.
"I'm stupidest when I try to be funny" 
New Orleans

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  • motowfo
    motowfo Posts: 32
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    Looks like a brown snake but you may want to check here...

    Snakes of Louisiana

    http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/resource/snakes-louisiana

    PS. there are only 7 venomous snakes in Louisiana and this does NOT look like any of them.

    Best approach... let it be and let it do it's job hunting rodents and insects!



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  • johnkitchens
    johnkitchens Posts: 5,227
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    I think that is also what it is. 

    Louisville, GA - 2 Large BGE's
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  • TigerTony
    TigerTony Posts: 1,078
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    I'm gonna have a hard time convincing my wife and daughter that they are non poisonous.
    I hope you guys are right about being brown harmless snakes.
    They want them dead.
    "I'm stupidest when I try to be funny" 
    New Orleans

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  • Oldshad
    Oldshad Posts: 10
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    Be careful about killing snakes.  It is my understanding there is a hefty fine in Georgia for killing any snake.
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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
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    King cobra. You're already dead. You just don't know it
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  • Photo Egg
    Photo Egg Posts: 12,110
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    Yea, brown snake, grandpa used to call them rat snakes.
    Thank you,
    Darian

    Galveston Texas
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 15,492
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    motowfo said:
    PS. there are only 7 venomous snakes in Louisiana and this does NOT look like any of them.

    I've always thought there were only four venomous snakes in the entire US (rattlers, coral, copperheads and Water moccasins) and had almost posted that  the OP had none of them, but I'm not positive what a copperhead looks like.  
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  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 17,189
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    In my book, there's only two kinds of snakes, live ones and dead ones. The only good snake is a dead snake. 
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  • badinfluence
    badinfluence Posts: 1,774
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    Yep we call them brown corn snakes. Harmless if they do bite. They will poop on you first then they might try and bite.
    1 XXL BGE,  1 LG BGE, 2 MED. BGE, 1 MINI BGE, 1 Peoria custom cooker Meat Monster.


    Clinton, Iowa
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  • Sameday
    Sameday Posts: 43
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    Saw this on FB - not sure how accurate it is. 
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  • Texansurf
    Texansurf Posts: 507
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    If you kill all the snakes, get ready for a rodent problem.  The best way to get rid of snakes is to eliminate the food sources for their prey....
    Corpus Christi, Texas.  LBGE x 2, Weber Smoky Joe, and Aussie Walk-About
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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
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    Grown men afraid of a snake?

    interesting
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  • Doc_Eggerton
    Doc_Eggerton Posts: 5,321
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    Texansurf said:
    If you kill all the snakes, get ready for a rodent problem.  The best way to get rid of snakes is to eliminate the food sources for their prey....
    Never kill a snake, venomous or not.  Catch it and relocate.

    XXL #82 out of the first 100, XLGE X 2, LBGE (gave this one to daughter 1.0) , MBGE (now in the hands of iloveagoodyoke daughter 2.0) and lots of toys

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  • TigerTony
    TigerTony Posts: 1,078
    edited August 2015
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    My daughter lives in Baton Rouge. My sil is out of town so my wife is sleeping over. Two women and a baby. They were working in the garden when they encountered the snakes. Wife and daughter are convinced that the snakes in the yard have triangle shaped heads and are poisonous .  I'm not driving to Baton Rouge to look at the snakes. They decided not to go in the back yard. The snakes are still alive. 
    "I'm stupidest when I try to be funny" 
    New Orleans

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  • gdenby
    gdenby Posts: 6,239
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    Above posters calling them brown snakes seem to be right. See this page. In Iowa it appears they are protected. In general, tho' alarming (nothing like uncovering a nest w 10 or 20: Yikes!), non-venomous snakes are friends. For the past 2 years, I've found garter snakes around my house. Our old kitty died, but once the snakes showed up, neither mice or slugs have been a problem.
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  • NPHuskerFL
    NPHuskerFL Posts: 17,629
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    Definitely non-viper. Brown would be my guess also. 
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  • TigerTony
    TigerTony Posts: 1,078
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    Thanks everyone! Especially @gdenby the picture in the link you sent seems to match. You saved some snakes and my daughter and wife will maybe go in teh yard again. 
    "I'm stupidest when I try to be funny" 
    New Orleans

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  • jabam
    jabam Posts: 1,829
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    Darby_Crenshaw said:
    Grown men afraid of a snake?

    interesting
    I'm a grown man afraid of snakes! But they do serve a purpose, so if not deadly leave them be. If you start finding more of them then you have a rodent problem! Unless of course they are alien blood sucking, human eating robosnakes, then we all have a problem!!
    Central Valley CA     One large egg One chocolate lab "Halle" two chiuahuas "Skittles and PeeWee"
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  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 17,189
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    Darby_Crenshaw said:
    Grown men afraid of a snake?

    interesting
    You're damn right I am. 
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  • DoubleEgger
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    Texansurf said:
    If you kill all the snakes, get ready for a rodent problem.  The best way to get rid of snakes is to eliminate the food sources for their prey....
    I've got plenty of hawks, owls, and coyotes to take care of rodents. 
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  • blasting
    blasting Posts: 6,262
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    ugh, snakes.  I hate snakes.  Not afraid, but they do creep me out, and I will help send them to wherever they go in the afterlife.  Had a rattler waiting for me in the pool skimmer once.

    This was posted a while ago, possibly on this forum.  I wouldn't have been so cool about it.

    https://onedrive.live.com/?id=6E2148EDD8A068AC!2919&cid=6E2148EDD8A068AC&group=0&parId=root&authkey=!ADYoPwXy5fs2veg&o=OneUp

    Phoenix 
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  • Austin Egghead
    Austin Egghead Posts: 3,966
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    Coral snake vs king snake mnemonic we were taught as kids. Red touch black, friend of Jack.  Red touch yellow, kill a fellow. 

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  • SGH
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    Austin Egghead said:
    Coral snake vs king snake mnemonic we were taught as kids. Red touch black, friend of Jack.  Red touch yellow, kill a fellow. 

    Heard this same rhyme only worded slightly different:
    Red to black, venom it lacks. Red to yellow, it kills a fellow.   

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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
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    I may not shoot raccoons, but cotton mouths, I have shot over a thousand. I don't kill snakes that I can't identify.
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  • Begger
    Begger Posts: 569
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    I think I'd use Cotton Mouths for target practice, too.    If I understand correctly, they are nasty and territorial.   Not a critter you want near by.  

    motowfo said 'only 7 venomous snakes in Louisiana' which absolutely cracks me up.  SEVEN?    Rattler?   CottonMouth?   Coral Snake?    what are the other four?     Do they have Copperheads?
    SEVEN sounds like Quite Enough!
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  • Black_Badger
    Black_Badger Posts: 1,182
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    Interesting thread. Glad I don't live in LA (haha!)

    http://1079ishot.com/venomous-snakes-louisiana/


    Finally back in the Badger State!

    Middleton, WI
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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
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    I don't seek them out but they definitely play their part. Never did understand the "kill 'em all" mentality especially from an informed adult.
    Only creatures that find their place on the kill' em all with extreme prejudice list in my house are rats and cockroaches. 

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  • JethroVA
    JethroVA Posts: 1,251
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    The snake in the original photo is definitely not a coral snake based on the colors. That leaves the pit viper family (rattlers, copperheads and cottonmouths).  All of these latter ones have a fairly distinct triangle shaped head.  The snake in the photo doesn't have the triangle shape.  We don't have the species in Virginia so I can't say what it is, but I'd say pretty confidently it's not poisonous.   Oh, another way you can tell the pit viper family is they have a slit vs. round pupil, but not many folks are willing to get that close!

    I only kill poisonous snakes when there's a high probability of it harming someone.  My dad's beagle almost died of a copperhead bite but he's ok now. 
    Richmond and Mathews County, VA. Large BGE, Weber gas, little Weber charcoal. Vintage ManGrates. Little reddish portable kamado that shall remain nameless here.  Very Extremely Stable Genius. 
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  • stemc33
    stemc33 Posts: 3,567
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    It's not poisonous. 
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad-H3wnS6Wc
    Steven
    Mini Max with Woo stone combo, LBGE, iGrill 2, Plate Setter, 
    two cotton pot holders to handle PS
    Banner, Wyoming
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