We have all sorts of snakes on the property what with a woods behind us & lots of lakes nearby. I also invited all of the neighbors to bring their snakes to my fenceline a few years ago to discourage the rich neighborhood kids from hopping my fence to get to the local Wal-Mart's on foot. Now I have snake holes everywhere & there is a particularly scary little fellow by the A/C unit that we are wondering if he's poisonous. A coral snake has red, yellow, black & white striping in a certain order & the non poisonous one has the same but in a different color order & we're trying to figure out which one he is. Someone let their reticulated python go around here & we also have python babies trying to eat the squirvels, owls trying to eat the snakes, falcons trying to eat the small birds that we feed at the feeder & lots of things like different snakes trying to eat the rats from the woods that try to eat the bird food! We just want to know about the coral snakes now.
2006-09-06 03:18:00 · 7 answers · asked by LadyGrey21 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
How can you tell if you have a young king snake or a regular sized coral snake? Is it the red yellow or the red black that does it or is it the size that matters? This one was small fast frightened & left before we could be sure.
2006-09-06 03:47:57 · update #1
The difference between a coral snake and a scarlet king snake (which is non-poisonous) is the order of the color bands. Remember "red on black is a friend to Jack, but red on yellow can hurt a fellow." They say coral snakes can't bite through shoes and boots, but if I were you I wouldn't take any chances...
2006-09-06 03:25:02 · answer #1 · answered by sarge927 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Red touches black, he's a friend of Jack
Red touches yellow, you're a dead fellow.
I am not sure about the coral snake, but this is a guide I follow, helps me remember poisinous snakes from friendly snakes.
2006-09-06 12:53:57 · answer #2 · answered by plantmd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Red on yellow = Kill a fellow
Red on Black = Venom Lack
Coral snakes are small (Red on yellow = Kill a fellow) and often confused with king snakes that grow much larger.
http://www.wf.net/~snake/coral.htm
King Snake (Red on Black = Venom Lack)
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herpetology/FL-GUIDE/Lampropeltistelapsoides.htm
2006-09-06 10:33:51 · answer #3 · answered by Tim Taylor 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Red and black don't hurt Jack
but.......
Red and yellow killed the fellow
A King snake has a black nose.
2006-09-06 10:56:19 · answer #4 · answered by skyeblue 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They're mostly red and black striped with either white or yellow thinner stripes.
2006-09-06 10:22:57 · answer #5 · answered by deedah 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Black on red leave you dead
or is it black and yellow kill a fellow
I forgot,sorry-lol
but the non-poisionous one is a milk snake-if that helps
2006-09-06 10:22:05 · answer #6 · answered by boilerrat 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
http://images.google.com/images?q=coral%20snake&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=wi
2006-09-06 10:26:02 · answer #7 · answered by spaceytracey3 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋