2006-12-13 12:37:29 · 20 answers · asked by JARRED D 1 in Pets ➔ Reptiles
The milk snake has smooth, shiny scales.
The milk snake looks a lot like a copperhead snake. Copperheads are very poisonous. The milk snake is not poisonous.
2006-12-13 12:40:12 · answer #1 · answered by Mom of Three 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eastern Milk snakes are NOT poisonous. Milks, and something which unfortunately works only too well, is it's mimicry of the venomous coral snakes. As most people cannot tell the difference and many believe that all snakes are uniformly dangerous, wild kings and milks are often met with the business end of a shovel rather than the respect they deserve for their efforts in keeping the rodent populations in check. To set the record straight, Lampropeltis and coral snakes can easily be told apart by the order of the color of their bands. Both snakes have yellow, red and black bands. Kings and milks have black bands touching the red bands; in corals, the yellow touches the red bands. A simple rhyme makes it easy to remember the order: Red on yellow, kill a fellow. An alternative rhyme, yellow on red, you're dead" is a bit of an overstatement, as the vast majority of people who do get bitten by a coral snake just become very ill, recovering with no residual effects.
2006-12-13 12:46:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Golly, Your JimmyBobJimmyJo's cousin me too. I'm his brother BobJimmyJoJimmy. So are you on the JimmyJimmy side of the family of the BobJo side? Any hoot, I'm not one who's ever taken to religion, but I believe the Loard All Mighty prefers the poisonus kind of snakes. The reason being is I knew this Stirpper with a Boa once and well I was believing she was all Saintlt because her snake was so much larger than JimmyBobJimmyJo's. Well, to cut to the chase I think snakes should only be so big and if their bigger than that they should be poisonus.
2016-03-29 06:24:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some snakes are venomous but all snakes are poisonous. Snakes mouths carry an incredible amount of bacteria that will cause serious infection if you are bitten. There are many cases on record of people being bitten by non-venomous snakes and getting infections bad enough to cause gangrene. Leave the things in the wild and forget about the macho status.
2006-12-15 20:28:00 · answer #4 · answered by allen f 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as a poisonous snake. There are venomous ones though and they are easily identified by Google or good reptile sites like faunaclassifieds.com
2006-12-13 12:40:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
milk snakes are not poisonous but can be mixed up with the coral snake.
2006-12-14 00:58:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Milk snakes are harmless.
2006-12-13 23:17:11 · answer #7 · answered by Jason 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just make sure it's not a coral snake! here is a rhyme for you to tell if it is or not(talking about order of colored bands) Red and yellow kill a fellow, red and black, venom lack
2006-12-13 15:38:10 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, they are harmless to you.
but their lookalike cousin the Coral snake is poisonous
2006-12-13 12:39:24 · answer #9 · answered by Cuddly Lez 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, they're harmless but are very efficient eaters of snakes, including venomous speciec, which apparently can't harm them.
2006-12-14 04:05:02 · answer #10 · answered by preacher55 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋