LA Snake ID page

[LACamper]

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/resource/snakes-louisiana

Nice page. May come in handy now that the weather is warming up.

 

[HogHunter1203]

Nice post. My wife has shoveled 2 copperheads in the last week while cleaning the garden.

 

[RedStickChick]

Some of those little dudes can be kind of cute.

 

[KnightWolf09]

I've seen a couple of speckled kings when out with the dogs

 

[Aussiecajun]

Have the page saved on my phone. It's saved the life of quite a few snakes on my property already.

 

[alpinehyperlite]

Have the page saved on my phone. It's saved the life of quite a few snakes on my property already.

Same here.

 

[charlie12]

Thanks I just saved it on my phone too.

 

[topgunz1]

I was trying to ID some snakes I saw on the bike trails last week using that page, noticed several of the pictures link to the same snake, they may need to update that a bit!

 

[LACamper]

Well here's a fun little page... it helps you identify the snake by asking questions about color, scale type, etc.

http://www.oplin.org/snake/quick%20id/quickid.html

 

[Gator 45/70]

Released 2 garter snakes today caught in the bottom of a garbage can, It pays to know your snakes. Great post LACamper, Plus 10,000

 

[tbone]

I was trying to ID some snakes I saw on the bike trails last week using that page, noticed several of the pictures link to the same snake, they may need to update that a bit!

That's because of the various color variations of the same snake. That's what makes identifying a snake from a picture so difficult. This link does a good job of showing the variations in color that a single species can exhibit.

 

[jessopher]

yeah those pictures are pretty good showing the color variations that are unique to louisiana, like our milk snakes have grey bands instead of yellowish ones. I'm the guy on back country and gravel roads who stops and gets the snake out of the road before the guy in the big lifted 4x4 behind me can run over them lol.....so if your that guy in the truck wanting to squish some reptiles, sorry for the inconvenience.