Several around here eat copperheads, and more power to them. We get a lot of copperheads. King snakes are great copperhead hunters. I can't stand copperheads because I've seen so many, several over the years right here at our place. And I know more than a few folks who've been bitten. Those suckers are just so hard to see. We also have a whole bunch of cottonmouths around here as well, along with the rare, but occasional timber, or canebrake rattlesnake. Just a few coral snakes as well.
Yeah, the copperheads are hard to see.I can't stand copperheads because I've seen so many, several over the years right here at our place. And I know more than a few folks who've been bitten.
...you still had to be careful because that head and jaw can still bite!! It's like a muscle reflex thing and if you get near it with a hand or anything OR worse if a cat comes noseying around it can still bite...
They're non-existent here on Long Island, and that's just fine with me.
I hardly ever see any kind of snake around here, much less a poisonous one. My best guess is that Copperhead was somebody's pet that got to be too much for them. The winters can be long and cold here, but I'm a good cold weather beast, and there are a lot of advantages to living in a place where everything freezes and dies in the winter!The native Lawng Island snakes are non-venemous but a copperhead was captured on Long Island in 2018, right after it vanquished a rat at a body shop. It is invasive. But don’t know if they thrive there or not.
But not to fear. I am sure any hospital has anti-venom-venom around.
Venomous copperhead snake found in Mineola body shop
<p>Owner Efrais Cruz says he found the snake outside the rear door of A2D Auto Works on Sagamore Avenue.</p>bronx.news12.com
I agree. The internet ruined true kids play. Growing up my brothers and I in grade school would spend all day in the woods, following streams, scouring ponds or cranberry bogs looking for something to catch. We only came home (dirty as sin) for lunch or dinner.So there, the round eye - prob photoshopped - would indicate a non venomous snake.
I always wanted to find snakes as a kid, and toads, later kept snakes, turtles and crawfish as pets. Turtles are fun, you buy a bag of Goldfish occasionally, fill the tub, sit back and watch, this is pre internet, activities were more creative.
I'm going to question your comment about Photoshop. The image appears to be the same as one used in an article in National Geographic in 2013.So there, the round eye - prob photoshopped - would indicate a non venomous snake.
I always wanted to find snakes as a kid, and toads, later kept snakes, turtles and crawfish as pets. Turtles are fun, you buy a bag of Goldfish occasionally, fill the tub, sit back and watch, this is pre internet, activities were more creative.
Wouldn't have made any difference. The suggestion that it wasn't a real photo set off my BS detector. ;-)I knew I should have said maybe instead of probably.
Analog. But I do have some problems keeping it calibrated.
The suggestion that it wasn't a real photo
Getting pedantic with me is not winning you any points.I never suggested it wasn't a real photo, merely that maybe the eyeball had been Photoshopped, enhanced, because it's a meme.
So there, the round eye - prob photoshopped