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To: nickcarraway
I suspect our cute little Milk snakes are giving mimicry a go.

It tends to backfire as blithering idiot ophidiophobes "mistake" them for, amazingly, Copperheads.

Because, you know, they look exactly alike...:-\


7 posted on 07/29/2014 12:29:01 AM PDT by Salamander (He ain't heavy, he's my Boa.)
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To: Salamander

Same with the poor brown water snake here in Georgia.


10 posted on 07/29/2014 1:15:47 AM PDT by Vigilantcitizen
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To: Salamander
I think if I saw this little guy in the back yard I would defiantly think he was venomous given the triangular head... It isn't then?
16 posted on 07/29/2014 3:37:44 AM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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