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He shall crush your head...

9yr old daughter found a chunky moccasin in St Augustine yesterday behind her friends house

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Weldabeast said:
My boy does me proud.... He just came in from playing outside with this little ring neck snake.... Not venomous and cute as a button

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I used to catch them all the time when I was a kid. One time, right In the middle of me telling a cousin it was too little to bite him one latched on to the webbing in between his fingers.
 
Weldabeast said:
I thought he was playing a prank at first... They are everywhere
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He’s probably not much of an outdoorsman

I also have caught some huge indigo snakes , coral snakes, & Diamondbacks

I ran into an indigo researcher and he said there aren’t indigos near me and that I was wrong about seeing some

Researchers hadn’t verified one in over 20yrs

I caught one during the next bow season and sent him a pic and he freaked out

It was a monsterous indigo

He published the pics to get himself notoriety as a herpetologist


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I grew up in San Diego and ran into huge rattlers all the time. 5-6’ was found a few times a year. Here in Colorado we have mostly bull, king and gardners so I’m little lucky. My youngest picks them out of the water when we fish.
 
KYHunter said:
They are plentiful around here in KY. Where I’m at in Western KY a lot of herpetologists and state biologists believe we have the highest cottonmouth concentration in the world. So we see a lot more of them than copperheads. We also have two species of rattlesnakes here which is pretty cool.

I would rank copperheads as my number 1 beautiful snake. What other two fill out your top 3?
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Yea officially in Florida there are 3 rattlesnakes (diamond back, Pygmy, and timber) we also have a lot of the beloved cottonmouths, then we have coral snakes and copperheads. Now because of irresponsible pet owners we are also home to a large population of boa constrictor. Like black bear, wild boar, venomous snakes, alligators, brown recluse, black widow, mosquitoes, sand gnats, tons of sharks and scorpions weren’t enough, someone said hey let’s really make FL great by releasing some Pythons!
Copperheads are beautiful. To finish out my top three I’d say eastern diamond back and Coral snake
 
Tapeworm said:
Wish I wasn’t working yesterday so I could’ve walked matanzas this weekend while daughter had her StAugustine sleep over

Could’ve scouted for deer , hogs snakes , skeeters & ticks


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There are ticks a plenty. I pulled 4 of them off my from a two hour hike last weekend
 
Fl Canopy Stalker said:
Yea officially in Florida there are 3 rattlesnakes (diamond back, Pygmy, and timber) we also have a lot of the beloved cottonmouths, then we have coral snakes and copperheads. Now because of irresponsible pet owners we are also home to a large population of boa constrictor. Like black bear, wild boar, venomous snakes, alligators, brown recluse, black widow, mosquitoes, sand gnats, tons of sharks and scorpions weren’t enough, someone said hey let’s really make FL great by releasing some Pythons!
Copperheads are beautiful. To finish out my top three I’d say eastern diamond back and Coral snake
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Y’all make Florida sound so inviting lol.
 
KYHunter said:
Y’all make Florida sound so inviting lol.
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It is! It rains at like 3pm until 5 every day from May until September. In between rain storms it’s 95-102 with 100% humidity. The bodies of water with salt have sharks, the ones that are fresh have gators. Pretty much every creek and swamp has gators and snakes. There are no freezes to kill off the ticks, mosquitoes, and gnats. I’ve seen more Christmas mornings in the upper 80’s than I’ve seen snow in my life. Our deer are the size of most coon hounds and we get hit with two or three hurricanes every year. I mean if it was any better, we’d be Louisiana lol just kidding it’s great and you should come down
 
kyler1945 said:
I'm always in awe at how well their camo works. Humans eyesight is funny - "what you see is all there is"....
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Amen. I'm always amazed at the different variations of camo the Lord made. Some camo like a copperhead's back is really busy yet blends in perfectly with leaves... and then there's a plain brown deer that I can take my off of for three seconds while I grab my bow and completely lose against a backdrop of woods until they flick an ear again.
 
Red Beard said:
Amen. I'm always amazed at the different variations of camo the Lord made. Some camo like a copperhead's back is really busy yet blends in perfectly with leaves... and then there's a plain brown deer that I can take my off of for three seconds while I grab my bow and completely lose against a backdrop of woods until they flick an ear again.
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Look at a deer hair up close next time you shoot one.
 
Fl Canopy Stalker said:
The juveniles are more dangerous because they haven’t figured out control of their venom glands. So they give full venom injection with every bite. Down in Fl we only have copperheads in the panhandle mostly around the apalachicola river.
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According to experts on a National snakebite site, thats kinda not true about juveniles not being able to control their venom. I’ve been around venomous snakes for many decades and even published an article on Alabama snakes. I am still learning. Our family is also about educating the little guys, the grandkids. 1626643232924.jpeg
 
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Sipsey said:
According to experts on a National snakebite site, thats kinda not true about juveniles not being able to control their venom. I’ve been around venomous snakes for many decades and even published an article on Alabama snakes. I am still learning. Our family is also about educating the little guys, the grandkids. View attachment 49595
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Well I stand corrected!
So if that age old idea that juveniles don’t control their venom injections, why would you say the smaller snakes tend to not dry bite or tend to cause worse bites-at least in my experiences? Or am I and so many others totally off base there too? I mean I don’t work at a zoo or consider myself an expert, just know I’ve seen a lot of snake bites and scorpion stings, in both instances the smaller younger animal, does the worst as far as amounts of damage from bites. I’m fact with bigger snakes, I worry more about infections once the venom is counteracted than I worry about actual dead tissue and circulation from venom.
 
Fl Canopy Stalker said:
Well I stand corrected!
So if that age old idea that juveniles don’t control their venom injections, why would you say the smaller snakes tend to not dry bite or tend to cause worse bites-at least in my experiences? Or am I and so many others totally off base there too? I mean I don’t work at a zoo or consider myself an expert, just know I’ve seen a lot of snake bites and scorpion stings, in both instances the smaller younger animal, does the worst as far as amounts of damage from bites. I’m fact with bigger snakes, I worry more about infections once the venom is counteracted than I worry about actual dead tissue and circulation from venom.
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It’s not written in stone at this point, and your experience surely trumps random research. From what I gather there is an actual difference in venom composition in immature snakes. Research says it changes slightly as they mature. The main objection to immature snakes being more dangerous seems to be objected to mainly on the basis of the sheer volume that an adult has vs the much smaller capacity of a juvenile. If you’re into tedious reading, here is a longish paper looking at the issue.

 
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