And easily confused with a Milk Snake which is not poisonous. Red touches yellow, kill a fellow. Red touches black, poison lack.
Posted on 04/27/2017 12:23:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The latest confounding image being shared on social media also teaches an important lesson – when hiking in areas with venomous snakes, don’t assume you’ll be able to see it before it’s too late.
Still not convinced? Join the people who have been trying to find the snake lurking in this Twitter photo posted Sunday by snake biologist Helen Plylar, according to Mashable.
“Received this from a fellow HERper this morning. No caption needed, the task was implied: “can you spot the snake?”
Helen🐍👩🏼🔬 @SssnakeySci Received this from a fellow HERper this morning. No caption needed, the task was implied: "can you spot the snake?" 🐍 7:16 AM - 23 Apr 2017 5,740 5,740 Retweets 22,903 22,903 likes Somewhere in the photo, which Plylar said was sent to her by a man in Texas named Jerry Davis, is a copperhead snake.
“Cute but venomous, so no touchy!” Helen tweeted.
Since the photo went viral, Plylar pinned this tweet to her account after receiving at least one photo of a dead snake:
Helen🐍👩🏼🔬 @SssnakeySci For everyone enjoying this puzzle, please remember: Snakes deserve to live just as we do. Treat them with care & respect, not hate & fear. https://twitter.com/SssnakeySci/status/856149745827491840 … 8:29 AM - 25 Apr 2017 106 106 Retweets 239 239 likes
Still can’t find it and ready to jump to the answer? Scroll down to see the copperhead:
I saw one of them once, a real little one, almost stepped on it. Thought it was a twig, then it moved...
Didn’t see it at first. At regular size, still hard to see. Have a bunch of dead leaves in driveway just like in the picture and copperheads are common around here. Couple of years ago, found one in my garage shop, about 18 inches long. Used a pellet pistol to kill it.
Two people in Missouri have died from copperhead bites in the last few years. One guy was trying to get a little one out of his tent and got bitten. It’s rare, but they can kill.
Lucky we have King snakes and not coral's
No, I can’t see it and yeah I go hiking in the woods all the time.
Now I am paranoid. Thanks, Nick!
In the woods you will usually hear a snake well before you see it, if you ever see it.
The sound they make is like a whip going through the leave as they dart away. It’s a very sudden sound, which hopefully you hear, because if not that means they didn’t go away and are still there.
And easily confused with a Milk Snake which is not poisonous. Red touches yellow, kill a fellow. Red touches black, poison lack.
Just trying to keep you safe.
Once in autumn I was raking leaves while wearing flip-flops and I raked a copperhead right to my feet.
I know now that I can dance crazy good in flip-flops.
Fortunately the snake was confused because of being topsy-turvy in the leaves and I wasn’t bitten.
Always wear closed shoes when raking leaves. :-)
Hillary is in camo now? okay.
"Red and yellow, kill a fellow.
Red and black, friend of Jack."
Never found out who Jack was.
Thank you <3
A copperhead bit my step uncle in South Carolina. It apparently totally changed his world too, and not for the better.
But I don’t feel too sorry for him, because the guy is one of the worst people ever.
Many years ago while turkey hunting on a wooded river bluff I was one step from stepping on two rattle snakes coiled together. (Mating season?) They both started rattling and I backed up real fast.
After I composed myself again I was amazed at how well their camouflage worked.
I have not hunted the area since.
Solution: Run on the trail with a gas-powered leaf blower held out in front of you.
Alternate solution: Run on the trail wearing heavy duty combat boots.
I was hiking in Arizona and ran across a rattle snake. Decided to take a picture of it and decided to take a picture of it. To my surprise it was very will hidden in the picture. However in person it was not that well hidden. Same thing with some quail chicks I ran across. I could not see them at all in the picture I took and I knew where they were at.
Fag and Hag
Funny, I see no democrats. (I’d NEVER insult an honest snake by comparing him to a lousy democrat in public!
I did the same!
Spotted it. Took a few minutes.
Reminds me of when I was 6 years old on the High Plains of Kansas. Playing in the garden we heard a buzz like a bee but heavier sounding. We looked through the fence and saw nothing. The buzzing continued. Then it moved so slightly and there it was A rattlesnake.
We ran in and told dad there was a snake and he was buzzing at us! Talk about someone coming up off the couch!
Believe it or not that is the ONLY rattler I have seen in the wild. Lots of copperheads and moccasins but no rattlers.
Are you also dead on this hike?
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