ARE THE SNAKES OUT YET??

[ShootnCut]

How would you like to run into this 9 1/2 foot beast from Georgia?

 

[alfahornet]

I encountered what appeared to be about a 5 foot rat snake (longer than any I had seen previously) in a Dayton Oh Metro parking over Easter weekend.

 

[OWGEM]

How would you like to run into this 9 1/2 foot beast from Georgia?

Eastern diamondback rattlers average about 5.5 feet in length, and the very largest specimens of the species ***might*** approach 8 feet. The apparent size of this rattler has been exaggerated in the photographs due to forced perspective (i.e., the snake is much closer to the camera lens than other objects in the frame)

 

[ShootnCut]

Should have known better than to buy internet BS. Still, I wouldn't want that thing in my sleeping bag.

Here's an update on the picture that I ran across. Don't know if it's true or not.

"In any case, it looks like the real story has finally surfaced: the snake is from Levy County, Florida and is claimed as 6'9" and 15 lbs."

 

[rabidsquirrel]

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From the Garden today. Largest Garter snake I've seen around our area yet.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Eastern diamondback rattlers average about 5.5 feet in length, and the very largest specimens of the species ***might*** approach 8 feet. The apparent size of this rattler has been exaggerated in the photographs due to forced perspective (i.e., the snake is much closer to the camera lens than other objects in the frame)

Any fool can handle a dead one. Nothing gets your heart rate going like holding a live rattler in your hands. I caught two (not quite that big) one day on the high plains of Texas and brought them back to our field office in my day pack. Getting the first one in was easy, but getting the second one in without letting the first one out was tricky. We kept them in a big trash can for the rest of the crew to see, then let them go.

 

[Bravo-4-2]

Definitely not in Indiana the past couple of days and the next couple of days. You'd have to work to find a snake in this cold.

 

[Roan]

Saw a decent size snake at Stone Arch in attebury last weekend.

 

[wsenefeld]

Besides the two that I own, I did see a 4'-5' corn snake last Thursday.

 

[.458socomhunter]

Corn snakes are not native to Indiana, either a released pet, or a misidentification.

 

[Knife Lady]

My garter snake is still lingering around. He is either right up against the back of the house ( hanging around the ladder which is laying down against the house) or in front of the house. I was watering plants today in the back and he got upset and moved. Now I have no idea where he is.

 

[wsenefeld]

Corn snakes are not native to Indiana, either a released pet, or a misidentification.

Was on my father's property on the Indiana/Kentucky border. If they aren't "supposed" to be in Indiana, I'll have to remind it next time I see one.

 

[rhino]

Was on my father's property on the Indiana/Kentucky border. If they aren't "supposed" to be in Indiana, I'll have to remind it next time I see one.

Maybe it laid some anchor eggs after it got here, and now it's waiting for amnesty and a path to citizenship?

 

[wsenefeld]

Maybe it laid some anchor eggs after it got here, and now it's waiting for amnesty and a path to citizenship?

Whatever the case, the benefits should be far better than any received by a native snake.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

One of my corns with her eggs from some years ago:

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Still have that snake, she is going on 16 years old.

 

[calcot7]

One of our cats left a small, dead, 5" snake of some sort on my oversized office chair the other day. She always brings me her kills.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

And here's a pic of the babies.

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