Difference between coral and milk snake.?

Question

Ok so my question is: Have you guys ever heard of the saying
"Something next to something blah blah everything is ok. Something next to red, everyone is dead" I remembered there was this trick into remembering the difference between the poisonous and nonpoisonous. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Answer 1

red on black a friend to Jack,
red on yellow kill a fellow.

http://www.tigerhomes.org/animal/coral-snake-photo.cfm

Answer 2

Milk Snake Vs Coral Snake

Answer 3

Coral Snake Vs Milk Snake

Answer 4

Red touch yellow,kill a fellow.
Red touch black, friend of Jack

Coral snakes are red, black & yellow snakes, brilliantly marked and beautiful to see. They can grow to about 4 feet or so, but it is rare to see them over 24". I would venture that most of the ones you might be lucky enough to spot would be closer to 18" or smaller. The babies are marked exactly like the adults, so no confusion there. The colorful rings go ALL THE WAY AROUND THE BODY, where in some of the other similar species, they do not.

Every other band on a coral snake is yellow, so you will see yellow touching red and yellow touching black, but never red touching black. The rhyme is "Red on yellow, kill a fellow, red on black, friend of Jack," but frankly, I find that confusing to try to remember when you have just been startled by a brightly colored snake.

The gentle milksnake’s red rings are banded by black rings, while the venomous coral snake’s red rings are banded by yellow.

Much less mentioned, but the EASIEST thing to remember is that coral snakes have BLACK noses and NONE of our other mimics do.

Excerpt from a reptile expert's articles
http://www.anapsid.org/king.html
One of the most interesting thing about some of the kings and milks, and something which unfortunately works o
An excellent article at the site of a reptile expert
nly too well, is their 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.

Answer 5

Just remember, the red touches black, friend of Jack, red touches yellow kill a fellow is only applicable to coral snakes here in N. America. Coral snakes in South America may not follow that rule, nor do the snakes that mimic them.

Answer 6

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RE:
Difference between coral and milk snake.?
Ok so my question is: Have you guys ever heard of the saying
"Something next to something blah blah everything is ok. Something next to red, everyone is dead" I remembered there was this trick into remembering the difference between the poisonous and nonpoisonous. Anyone know what...

Answer 7

Red next to yellow will kill a fellow, red next to black is OK, Jack.

But it's a bit tricky to judge this in the heat of the moment when a snake surprises you. I like snakes but wish they came with bells or something. Rattlesnakes do, of course.

Answer 8

well,Coral snakes have yellow bands touching the red bands, while the milk snakes have black touching the red bands...Red on Black -- Venom Lack, Red on Yellow, Kill a fellow thats the phrase i know

ps, what on earth is john e talking about?? hes got it backwards...if theres yellow touching black (or red for that matter) then its the poisonous coral snake...i hope you dont follow those rules cos youd be dead lol

Answer 9

"Red and black, pat him on the back. Red and yellow, kill a fellow."

"Red and black is a friend of Jack. Red and yellow can kill a fellow."

"No yellow and red, pet him on the head. No black and red, you might be dead."

Here is a great site that show the coral (venomous), the scarlet, and the scarlet king (non-venomous). Only in the southeastern states. Coral snakes and scarlet king snakes have bands that wrap all the way around the body, while scarlet snakes have a cream white belly.

As amasusana mentioned above, this is only good in the eastern U.S. but west of Oklahoma it is useless. Many non-venomous snakes have red and yellow touching. In Mexico down into South America their are various coral snakes, such as the "double banded coral" where the black and red touch

Shovelnose snake (non-venomous) - West of Oklahoma to South and central Cal. and up to Nevada and Southern Colorado
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimage%26fr%3Dush-ans%26va%3Dshovelnose%2Bsnake%26sz%3Dall&w=853&h=640&imgurl=sdbirds.basiclink.com%2FNew_Folder2%2F13%2520May%2520Shovelnose_resize.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsdbirds.basiclink.com%2Fwestern_shovelnose_snake.htm&size=203.3kB&name=13+May+Shovelnose_resize.jpg&p=shovelnose+snake&type=jpeg&no=3&tt=23&oid=591e451ef64b0e9e&ei=ISO-8859-1

http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/snake.pics/C_palarostris.jpg

The second pic on this page is a South American Coral Snake (venomous) No yellow and black.

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=ush-ans&va=south+american+coral+snake&sz=all

Answer 10

A coral snake's bite will kill you, a milk snake will milk a cow. A coral snake looks somewhat like a scarlet king snake, but remember these differences. The shape of the head of the coral snake is blunt triangular. the Coral snake has a BLACK NOSE. The Coral snake has red bands touching yellow bands. (The scarlet king has red touching black bands) If you are in doubt, leave it alone!

The rhyme goes:
Red to black: friendly jack;
red to yellow: kill a fellow.

or you may mean:
yellow next to red - will kill you dead.