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What sort of snake is this? (photo)
DH found this little guy when he went to shut off the water main coming into the house so I could do a plumbing repair.
Any idea what kind of snake this is?
DH said his tongue is bright red.
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04/08/11, 07:45 PM
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Looks like a western garter snake. The eastern ones are black with yellowish stripes instead of being brown with stripes like this one.
It's harmless -- although they will bite if provoked enough, but aren't poisonous.
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04/08/11, 07:51 PM
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Checkered garter, maybe?
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04/08/11, 07:52 PM
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And here I was hoping it was a non-venomous diamondback water snake 
Would you call those patches of dark color "stripes" or splotches or blotches or diamonds or...?
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04/08/11, 07:54 PM
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Here's what came up when I googled "checkered garter snake"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Th..._marcianus.jpg
Does appear quite similar, doesn't it?
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04/08/11, 07:55 PM
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Nice!!!
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04/08/11, 07:56 PM
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Diamond back water snake.
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04/08/11, 07:59 PM
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We get some of these here. They eat the frogs near the pond.
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04/08/11, 08:00 PM
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Yep gater snake and a very cute one at that. I would love that one as a pet.
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04/08/11, 08:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyngbaeld
We get some of these here. They eat the frogs near the pond. |
I would LOVE to see some like this here
Pretty!
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04/08/11, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Merks
Yep gater snake and a very cute one at that. I would love that one as a pet.
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Want me to go check to see if he's still nearby? I can box him up and ship him to you if you'd like Where's there's one, there's more, so I can share him with you and still have the snakes here to eat mice and other critters that we don't need.
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04/08/11, 08:14 PM
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 Sounds like ya'll like snakes!
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Love garter snakes. I picked one up a couple years ago outta the yard and put her in a cage to watch her a while. She loved to eat little toads. Then one day I woke to find out she had babies! 5 of them. They bare live young. I let her and her babies go after that. She was big for a garter snake.
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Better a snake than a spider.....ACK!
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04/08/11, 09:56 PM
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A very pretty snake!
I like snakes (maybe cuz it's rare to actually come across a poisonous one here in MI), and love it when I see a 'new' one I haven't run into before.
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A cute one..... Of course last summer I thought a hatchling rattlesnake was cute.......
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04/08/11, 10:45 PM
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He's pretty, around here most I see are just Black, or the green one's. All the other are fast enough to out the mower.
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YEP....Better a snake than a spider for me too!! My granddaughter (2 1/2 at the time) was visiting from Finland in the summer of 2009...She absolutely adored the garter snakes here
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I don't mind the garter snakes, but around here we have some pretty good size rattlers. Those I could do without.
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Saddly its a rare thing to see a snake around. here. Rare enough for it to be an excuse to follow them for a while like a kid!
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