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:
Let’s see if I remember the ditty...
Red touch yellow,
kill a fellow.
Its worth noting that the color patterns of coral snakes varies throughout the world and the red on yellow works only in parts of the US.
I come across them on occasion and they present very little threat despite being highly venomous. They aren’t in the least bit aggressive unless cornered with no way out. I occasionally find and remove them from my backyard with ease.
Look for the crooked line of Vs near the head. The snake jumps out.
Vs (sorta ) on this one too.
Here's me dead mixing a bourbon & coke at my damned counter :)
ok where is it
It is at the very bottom of the picture just to the left of center.
I was metal detecting near the Santee River in South Carolina a couple of weeks ago and decided not to get too close to the bank when I saw my second copperhead or cottonmouth in about 5 minutes...
I hate snakes, I’d prefer to run into a bear than a snake, haha...
252nd Sig Co. on Flamenco Island from approx. 11/69 - 5/70 then on to Ft. Clayton till 1/72.......
A friend of mine and I were exploring the perimeter of the second island off Ft. Amador, between the one that had the officer's beach and Flamenco. He came across a snake on the rocks and when trying to get close, it bit him. You should have heard him yell. I recognized the snake immediately as a harmless baby boa about 2 ft. long but I told him "dude, you might die!"...LOL!...........
I don't know if I've ever had contact with you due to your life in the CZ, but here's a wonderful website you might want to check out if you're not already familiar with it:
Welcome to Dino's Panama Photos
I left a comment on that website almost 20 years ago, relaying my experiences while stationed on Flamenco Island. Then about 8 or 9 years ago I got an email out of the blue from a guy who read my comment and as it turned out, he and I and two other guys shared an apartment in Panama City while stationed on Flamenco and rode our motorcycles together.........
We maintained an on and off email correspondence with my promise to convert all my colored slides to DVD and send them to him. Unfortunately I never followed thru with my promise and discovered that several months following our last email correspondence, he had died..........
If I came across that, I wouldn’t stop to think “Red on yellow kill a fellow... Or is it red on yellow, safe for a fellow?’ No sir!
I actually like snakes. The non-venomous ones. Grew up with a bunch of guys and went to a Girl Scout day camp in woods across the street from my house every summer. We were always playing with snake. Greens were my favorite.
Years ago I lived in very wooded neighborhood. One of the neighbors told me her husband killed a copperhead in their yard. I had also read black snakes will keep venomous snakes away. Well, not long after that, I come home for lunch and see a black snake leaving my yard and I, 8 months pregnant, wrangled the black back into my yard! My retired neighbor came out laughing like mad. He said it was a “now I’ve seen everything” moment.
I collect all sorts of snakes for my garden. It’s true, somehow or somewhy non-poisonous snakes feast on poisonous ones. Notice ‘pretty’ non-poisonous ones don’t camoflage themselves or worry about being seen, quite brazen, in fact. Mine are always sunning themselves in the rock garden.
Found that one but I sure can’t find the first one. Wouldn’t have found THIS one without the hint!
It all looks like my yard which isn’t lawn but just wild area full of broken tree limbs and mucho leaves. I hate to think of what’s out there. And after this thread, I won’t be going out to pick up the limbs and twigs from recent storms. The guys who do the weed whacking can do that - HA!
We ran into Mojave Green rattlesnakes in CA’s high desert..they usually warned us when we got close and we never walked in the area without guns. Even with the warnings, my husband killed them. The first time I saw them I was amazed that they could be moving “fast” when rattling - I thought they were coiled to rattle..
OK - now back to the first one - I may have to give up.
Finally!!!!!
First of all, a snake bite will be painful and scary but, of the 7,000+ bites each year, 7 people die on average.
Not something I’m going to worry about.
Doesn’t mean I haven’t run into my fair share over the years.
I have and found they stear clear of humans.
Although I was fishing with my brother and a copper head swam toward our canoe.
We just watched amd admired it’s beauty until my brother decided the snakd wasnt altering course and was on a path directly at us.
He slapped the water with his oar in an attempt to get it to change course.
Damned if he didn’t somehow catch the snake on the oar and on his upward swing it flew over our heads and on the other side of the boat.
We broke out laughing and watched it continue yonder.
Would’ve been even funnier ic landed in the boat I suppose.
A snake can’t bite you, if you don’t see it, right?
Prolly...
Remind me next time we get together and I’ll show you a video of a 5 foot rattler my brother was messing with last summer.
Not a big deal but, the snake had the whole town with him, in some hole nearby.
Now, that was some stupid shit, right there.
If you insist on doing this sort of thing, make certain you keep the snakes in the refrigerator and only take them out a few minutes before you “handle” them.
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