The snakes that would scare me the most are:
Black Mamba
Krait
Taipan
Gaboon Viper
Bushmaster
Eastern Brown Snake
Death Adder
Tiger Snake
Perhaps I should be afraid of Rattlesnakes, but I have been around them so much and they often rattle as a warning.
Please feel free to add snakes that would worry you unless you are afraid of Garter Snakes.
The rattlers in feral hog infested areas don’t rattle much if at all. The rattle is a dinner bell for the hogs. Natural selection at work.
No, garter snakes don’t scare me. :-)
I don’t like water moccasins and copperheads.
I learned not to rake leaves in the fall while wearing flip-flops when I raked a copperhead just to my toes. Luckily he was disoriented and my warp-speed backwards jump saved the day.
Water moccasins are just plain creepy when they’re swimming or hiding in the brush along the water’s edge. One jumped out of a woodpile at me once and, yet again, my lightning-fast backwards jump proved to be a valuable self-defense plan.
:-)
Habu.