Posted on 01/09/2024 6:59:16 AM PST by SJackson
Rattlesnakes are masters of camouflage and some are more difficult to spot than others.
Can you spot the rattlesnake in the accompanying image? (Answer at bottom of post.)
The image was captured in Casa Grande, Arizona, by Rattlesnake Solutions, which explained Sunday on Facebook that it took a while for one of its inspectors to locate the snake:
“Even Marissa missed this one, walking past it a few times before spotting the snake on a recent property inspection in Casa Grande. Captured and relocated safely.”
Some followers spotted the snake quickly, while others required a period of visual adjustment before locating the venomous reptile.
“Took me forever to find it and I’m glad it was seen by others before it was stepped upon by ‘anything,’ one follower wrote.
“So easy to have missed this snake, the blend-into-its-surroundings is crazy cool,” reads another comment.
A frustrated follower chimed in: “Still can’t find it.”
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Sneaky buggers aren’t they. I spotted it in two seconds. Not a fast enough time to avoid a possible bad outcome.
I’ve nearly stepped on them. They are very hard to spot.
Have a friend who years ago was diagnosed with breast cancer. About a week or two after was doing some gardening, reached under a bush and was bitten by a copperhead.
Cured her cancer!
I spotted him.
I was once walking up a dirt road with a large group of people. I was near the back of the pack, talking to someone. Out of the corner of my eye I spotted a Timber Rattler at the edge of the road. People had been walking within a foot of the critter. I eased him off the bank.
To me, the pattern stood out. Maybe because we worked with venomous reptiles when I was a zookeeper.
There are some places in AZ where rattlesnakes are all over the place. A good indicator is when the horses and even big dogs wear leather chaps.
In Scottsdale, there is a business that teaches dogs rattlesnake aversion. It’s very simple. The have some holes with rattle noisemakers in them. When the dog approaches to investigate, an employee hits them with a stun gun. It works like a charm.
A couple of years ago, the light was starting to fade pretty good, and the grandkids were hunting fossils on an outcropping near our ranch Road. My daughter-in-law was standing next to a ledge when I suddenly grabbed her and yelled her name and pulled her away. There was a rattlesnake coiled up about the height of her neck. it was dark enough that I didn’t really see the snake, but the pattern on its back jumped out at me. I didn’t even realize what I was doing, and it still shocks me because my eyesight is not that great.
I was expecting a picture of Adam Kinzinger
When my wife was a little girl living in Florida, she was walking in the back yard when the family dog, Ginger, began growling at her, baring her teeth and snapping. The dog had never done anything like this before. Her dad scolded the dog, but she didn’t stop.
There was a large Coral Snake a couple feet behind the dog. I’ve seen pictures of the snake. It was indeed a Coral Snake, not a King Snake. And it was larger than any Coral Snake I’ve ever seen.
Ginger was protecting the little girl from going near the serpent.
Maybe so, maybe not ... rattlers are not particularly aggressive so if you were more than 2-3 feet away the snake would probably let you pass by.
When I lived in West Texas there used to be rattlesnake roundups in Feb - March. Organized to capture the critters and milk them of their venom for medical reasons. Those months are usually cold and the snakes are cold-blooded. This made them lethargic and easy to capture with long poles that had a grabbing function on the end. Many interesting happenings during those roundups ... there was always somebody who thought they were faster than the snake ... usually wrong.
I stepped on a Cottonmouth once. It struck me several times on the ankles, but my waders protected me.
That cured her cancer? Wow.
Yep, the downside of Florida, venomous snakes and gators who eat small dogs. Other than that and hurricanes it's nice :)
Small snake- I didn’t see it at first until I spotted the pattern on the snake- glad we don’t have to deal with rattler snakes (though there are some in nearby mountain area, confirmed by wildlife officials- the possibility of running across onemis there, but very very low)-
All we have to beware of is 2 diff mosquito virues cant remember now what they are called, one is zika maybe?) , lyme disease, (plus several,other tick diseases- our neighbor just got one of the other diseases from a tick and it knocked him down hard- he is still reeling from it months later), rabid animals, and that’s about it really- could get giardia from drinking from streams, most folks know not to though.
A biologist who,studies mice in the area claimed that they use full protective suits when doing so because of the poss of hunta virus, and another pretty nasty virus- but have never heard of anyone getting hunts virus here despite houses being infested, and only heard of 1 case where someone stopped at a lean-to on their hike, slept, and got it, but that was pretty far away.
No murder hornets or killer bees thsnkfully lol-
The north east coast has it pretty good as far as not many dangerous things to be aware of in the natural world- judging by how long it took me, about 1 1/2 minutes to spot the snake in photo, where i onew there was one, I would be out of my element where snakes reside it seems.
We have hybrids here worse than any rattlesnake. They’ve interbred to give us the rare but deadly rattled headed copper moccasin.
I THINL I see it, but not sure...whete?
THINK
I am so glad that rattle snakes have rattles. Don’t know if cottonmouths give any warning.
I see it. It’s red.
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