In the majority, snakes are not poisonous and if you are bitten by one, the largest threat to you is actually infection of the wound and exposure to bacteria that that is prominent in just about every snake's mouth.
If you are bitten by a non poisonous snake, even if the bite seems small, if blood is drawn, treat it as a serious wound because it can develop into something very serious without even having venom be present.
Although this article covers poisonous snakes in Kansas but the description of the various, major venomous snakes is a reliable guide for most of the south and Midwest.
You should, however, check with your state's Fish and Wildlife organization to see what, if any poisonous snakes exist in your state or region.
On the next page, we cover the most common venomous snakes for the region cited above.
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YUP.
Poison is ingested (swallowed), venom in injected.
Thank you, Josh. Lots of scared people on this thread, though.
Copperhead, cottonmouth, pigmy rattlesnake (guess) and diamondback rattlesnake. How’d I do?
Copperhead, cottonmouth, pigmy rattlesnake (guess) and diamondback rattlesnake. How’d I do?
Well I guess that means they are all dead then
the top snake is a coper head not a corol snake so your color schem is wrong
Np own a few teach my kids to respect them and to never pick a wild snake up and if they see one to tell me and not to go near 90% of the time they try to get away as soon as u get near
yes don’t touch don’t touch don’t touch and don’t touch
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top to bottom Copper head, Cotton mouth Eastern diamondback, Western diamondback
Copperheads only kill small animals and small children. I was bit by a copperhead and the dr said it wouldn’t kill me but make me sick. It took three shots of the anti venom to get it in me as I was allergic and it had to be reduced with saline.
Yep!
Don’t matter what kind they taste like chicken.
If he is on the ground it’s a rattlesnake if it’s in the water it’s a water moccasin. I am not getting close enough to look it in the eyes.
Coral snake is not there. Top is copperhead next is cottonmouth then Pygmy rattler then Diamondback rattler
Pygmy rattler and dimondback
Find that hard to believe… Maybe they are sleeping cause it’s cold.
The venom from any one of those can kill a man if antivenin is not available shortly after the bite. The venom is tissue destroying & extremely painful.
Hillery
Barry
AL
And bernnie
Only good snake is a dead snake
I can name all four snakes! One is Obama, one is Hillary, one is Reid, and one is Pelosi!
Put’em all in the Whitehouse as a April fools joke!
Copper head
Cotton mouth
Eastern diamond back
Western diamond back
Well played sir!
Top is a copperhead, then the water mocassin, followed by two different types of rattlesnakes. Born and raised in OK, any Okie kid can identify these.
Yep.. all dead.
Bottom two are rattlers
Michael if you pulled your head out of your$#%&!@*you would be aware that around 100 000 thousand dogs have been killed as I’ve written this.
Most poisonous snakes are Pit Vipers!
From top to bottom al sharpton Jesse Jackson Louis farrakham and will smith.
Michael Cross you an alcoholic? Don’t know how you have come up with that. Dogs kill people why? Because that human deserved it!
Some can kill some keep. The mice and such away. I live rural.
So do I but wrong move yes they can kill
Kings, Blue indigos and some others love to eat venomous snakes like rattlers. They are worth having around should one live in that environment. If they didn’t keep rodents populations down we couldn’t handle that problem. Know any Australians? They lost many of their snake populations that then rodents literally took over. Very sickening, so some predator snakes are OK by me. Now if they could figure out how to cope with epidemic snake population in Florida that started by releasing pet Boas. They are taking over the state if they haven’t by now.
Snakes come in several forms.
Sure…Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Loretta Lynch and Harry Reid. Haha haha!
I do know that the king snake can kill a rattle snake and king snakes are not venomous.
Taste like chicken!!
Copper head, Water Moccasin, Timber Rattlesnake, Dimond BACK Rattlesnake.
Nope, would have to kill them all.
Doesn’t matter what snake is what, the only good snake is a DEAD snake! Even those “non venomous” snakes bite & they eat rodents that have diseases, that bite can get infected! Chop off their head & move on!
I act like they are all poison!
Yes they are big and black…..but are a help ,but you should avoid any so not to get bite.
yeah the top one is Cruz,,the black one is obama,,,the bottom one is rubio,,and the 2nd from the bottom,,,,is hillary,,,im just saying.
Stay AWAY from all snakes: Rattlesnakes and Mojave GREEN are easy to spot. LOOK at what damage a brown recluse spider can do?!!
only deadly snake I know is Obama
Copperheads are dangerous because. They attack without warning and even not defending itself. I remember when one of my favorite aunts and a distant cousin was picking blackberries….Cousin was bite on foot. Almost lost it….
wouldn’t hang around long enough to identify them. They are snakes man…and I am gone in 1 second.
Hahaha