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[Jakob]

hopefully they aren't buttrape snakes that try to crawl up your butt while you sleep

[KJ89]

Pussy.

[TheRed]

Underpants Snakes.

[Guest Spider Monkey]

It's just a freaking snake. If it is a poisonous snake (highly unlikely) it won't strike unless it feels threatened. So don't be jumping around and screaming like a little girl.

Unless you live in the far eastern part of NC, it's very unlikely it's a water moccasin.

Still... would have scared the piss outta me.

Western NC is littered with cottonmouth snakes.

There are 7 poisonous snakes in NC and all 7 are found in WNC. The only one that is rare here and mostly confined to eastern areas is the Coral Snake, aka the most venomous snake in North America. But they are still found here ocassionally.

[Mr. Scot]

[KJ89]

It's just a freaking snake. If it is a poisonous snake (highly unlikely) it won't strike unless it feels threatened. So don't be jumping around and screaming like a little girl.

Venomous*

There are 7 poisonous snakes in NC

6*

[KJ89]

I guarantee you without any doubt in my mind that it's not a cottonmouth. It's obviously not a rattlesnake and certainly not a coral snake. Actually if anything it would be a coral snake.. but it's just not.

I find copperheads in my yard and garage weekly. (I just move them to the woods so it's probably the same few keeps coming back but whatever) but unless Fug (I'm sorry....Jakob) is full of poo again and it wasn't actually where he said it was, I can also guarantee it isn't a copperhead.

The snake in your house is a chill, harmless little garter snake or a chill, harmless not-so-little rat snake or something.

The only thing that snake will ever bother is the worms in your yard or the mice in your floorboards. You may never see it again. If you want it gone, be a man and pick it up. I get bit by snakes every day and it's only because my hand gets covered in fish guts.. it rarely and barely even draws blood.

Or be a complete girl and kill it, whatever.

[thefuzz]

It's just a freaking snake. If it is a poisonous snake (highly unlikely) it won't strike unless it feels threatened. So don't be jumping around and screaming like a little girl.

Western NC is littered with cottonmouth snakes.

There are 7 poisonous snakes in NC and all 7 are found in WNC. The only one that is rare here and mostly confined to eastern areas is the Coral Snake, aka the most venomous snake in North America. But they are still found here ocassionally.

 

There is really only 4, but they break the rattlers down a bit.

 

Copperhead

 

Coral

 

Rattler (canebreak, diamond back, pigmy)

 

Cottonmouth

[PhillyB]

i didn't know coral snakes lived this far east

[captfluoro]

"Red next to black is a friend of Jack, red next to yellow can kill a fellow."

 

A nifty rhyme to tell the difference between non-venomous king snakes and venomous coral snakes.

[g5jamz]

Rarely are any cottonmouths in the piedmont region/west.

 

Confused a lot by another water snake with pattern.  Where I'm going this weekend....THOSE are moccasins.  They are relatively short...some long but very fat and a big ole head.  I'll be near Winton, NC on the Chowan River.  Hatem. 

[Johnny Rockets]

I saw a mouse run from under my dryer the other night. If you find that snake, I want to borrow him.

 

 

#fuggincatisworthless

[Bronn]

"Red next to black is a friend of Jack, red next to yellow can kill a fellow."

 

A nifty rhyme to tell the difference between non-venomous king snakes and venomous coral snakes.

 

* Only true in eastern North America

[Bronn]

Also, lots of bad info in this thread as far as snake distribution, etc.

Educate yourselves:

http://naturalsciences.org/sites/default/files/files/documents/Venomous_Snakes_of_NC.pdf