Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[matap]

Anyone know what snake species this is?  Found this Guy in my front yard.

[Pudge]

A big scary one.     I have no idea, but keep those over there in your area.  We don't need them over here.  We have enough of our own.  I hate snakes.

[matap]

more details....................very flat as you can see.  not very aggresive, anytime i came close to it and picked it up, with a stick of course it seemed very tame, not ill-tempered, it did make a hissing sound, but not once did it actually strike at the stick.  now, i have come across some copperhead that have been very aggresive, but this one not so much.  i would say this one was about 18"-20" long

[Dusty]

With my extensive Discovery Channel education, I'm guessing a Hog Nosed Viper.

http://www.baycitypest.com/pests/detail.cfm?pestname=Hog-nosed%20Viper

Snakes serve a purpose but as a kid there was a cotton mouth around every corner and once there was a five footer in the house. I don't like snakes. 

[hipshot]

Ditto Bill's post. Some locals call them puff adders, but I believe the puff adder is actually a venomous species from another country. I've encountered them a few times when I used to hunt around Lake Conroe. I don't think I've ever seen one more than a foot long. They are harmless, and they will help keep the small pests (no, I'm not referring to children here) away.

[sherri]

A snake that big I would move

[DEMON]

did you kill it?

[xcaliber]

I've seen them before and we called them puff adders. I don't think they are dangerous and if you messwith them they play dead like a possum.

[grapeape]

Growing up in the Florida Panhandle, we too called them puff adders. Non-venemous, beneficial eaters of bugs and stuff. The flattening out and hissing is an attempt to look scarey and intimidating.

[VTreX]

   I have also called them spread atters.  They can make you HURT yourself!!!! 

[RedDragon]

  puff adder, spread adder, AppleSauce adder, gonna be a dead adder!

[Dusty]

Just for what it's worth, there are several species of this snake and some are deadly and the color differences don't vary that much. 
If memory serves me right the bad boys aren't native to Texas. Of course Pythons didn't use to occupy Florida either and now they are over run with them.   

[sherri]

Still would move 

[matap]

I got rid of him.  took him by the creek right behind my place. I always keep my distance around snakes, but i'm notto  scared to get within a couple of feet of them to crab them and move them some other place.

[BobB]

It's a puff adder.  I've killed several in my yard.  They spred their neck like a cobra but it's all show. Most are brown like that one but I've killed one that was yellow.  The largest was about 3 feet.