snake ID

[weekender]

a friend sent this to me and ask for a ID on the snake, if you know for sure, please respond

[Captain Michael Buffington]

a common grass snake. I'm not 100% but pretty close.

Mike

[HOLWACHAGOT]

Where was the pic?
Holwachagot

[onejacker]

We call 'em garden snake around here...I think.

[weekender]

central NC, I think I found the answer, garter snake, from this web site

http://www.bio.davidson.edu/projects...nakeID/All.asp

[Bird Dog]

garden, gardner, or garter.......they're all the same and harmless

[Robja]

Definitely a Garter snake. If you are ever unsure about a snake being poisonous you can flip them over and look at their tail. if the scale pattern looks interlocking(like when you put your knuckles in each hand together with the knuckles going between each other) then it is a poisonous snake. if the scale pattern is straight(like when you look at your fingers outstretched) then is is non posionous.

[Agitated88]

Definitely a Garter snake. If you are ever unsure about a snake being poisonous you can flip them over and look at their tail. if the scale pattern looks interlocking(like when you put your knuckles in each hand together with the knuckles going between each other) then it is a poisonous snake. if the scale pattern is straight(like when you look at your fingers outstretched) then is is non posionous.

Ummmm...I'll assume this is step #2 only if step is #1 shovel to the head?

[Robja]

Ummmm...I'll assume this is step #2 only if step is #1 shovel to the head?

You don't want to kill non posionous snakes. just trap their heads with a hoe and pick them up behind the head and check it out. I keep a sack in my truck in case i see a black snake along the road. I will catch it and carry it home because it will kill the copperheads as well as any yard vermin.

[merry marlin]

central NC, I think I found the answer, garter snake, from this web site

http://www.bio.davidson.edu/projects...nakeID/All.asp

So the weather is warming up....
Thanks for bringing up that website Greg, good tool for the boys who love to play with snakes...
MM