Can You Identify These Six Highly Venomous & Deadly Snakes?

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When I was fifteen-years-old, my dad was bitten by a venomous snake. What he thought was a bull snake ended up being a rattlesnake, and it might not have happened if we would have known how to identify baby rattlers that are prevalent where I grew up in Utah. Though, I have to say baby snakes are difficult to detect.

You see, sometimes it can be difficult identifying a snake, especially if you haven't learned about them or studied their difference in colors and head shape. And if you're bugging out or going on a hike and come across a snake you can't identify, there's no telling what may happen next.

The majority of snakes are not venomous, but in my dad's case, he did come across a venomous snake. Wouldn't you rather be safe than sorry knowing you knew what snake you were dealing with when the situation presented itself?

If you do get bit by a snake, even if it isn't venomous, the largest threat to you is that your wound may become infected with the bacteria that dwells in the snake's mouth. In other words, if you get bit that bacteria is now in your skin. As for a venomous snake, well, even if the bite is small, not only will the bite area swell up A LOT, but it can turn into something severe — so proceed with caution near any snake.

On the next page learn how to identify a copperhead snake and what states you may see this venomous snake slithering in.

Then continue to learn about more venomous snakes, because by doing so you may just save your life. 

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259 Comments

  1. Eric Warren said:

    copper head,cotto mouth,easter diamondback, and western diamondback……

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  2. Billy Haney said:

    Most bites are from idiots trying to kill them. I have a 6 foot king snake on my place he is safe to roam as he wants….

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  8. Erik M Monroy said:

    Lol reading these comments and wishing I could let some snakes loose in their house

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  9. Francis Kent said:

    I had a person that had snakes tell me if you are close enough to identify a snake, you are too close.

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  10. Don Hendrix said:

    I can identify them after I come in contact with them…..they’re all DEAD!!!

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  12. Mickey Garces said:

    Copper head, rattle snake, cotton mouth, diamond back. Not in that order

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  13. Mike Wherry said:

    A Nope, Oh$#%&!@*Nope, Holy Crap Nope, OMG Nope, Sweet Jesus Nope, I’m F**ked Nope.

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  21. Donald J Morgan said:

    One of them is a socialist democrat… One is a Hillary, one is a Bernie, one is an Obama, doesn’t really matter what one you pick they’re all poisonous, life sucking leeches and should be extrerminated…

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  26. Domonic Taulli said:

    Click click boom sums it up… I took Joe Biden’s advice and bought a shotgun.

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  30. Mike Hall said:

    Dead, crushed, sawed in half, shot, burned and the last one I believe is tire treads

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  31. Jeremy Gordon said:

    Ppl are so scared of everything today.
    Oh lawt it’s a snake. Kill. It kill it.

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  36. Larry Robinson said:

    Our patriotic American born president Barack Obama’s approval rating was just reported at 50%. Too bad that minority of Obama hate machine folks can’t lower that with all the lies and misinformation they spread. Looking forward to president Sanders or Clinton to begin the next administration

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  42. Lee Roach said:

    I see a lot of comments on here about different snakes. And the only two things in this article that I found highly inaccurate. For one. I live in the mountains and I hunt often. I see lots of snakes, mostly copperheads and timber rattlesnakes. For one…as many timbers as I have seen, and been up close and personal with on more than one occasion, I have never had one strike at me. Four years ago, I had a pygmy rattler try to eat me and not in the woods, in some bushes next to my chicken coop. Lol. Hurt like hell and did for a day or two. Felt like a really bad hornet sting. Didn’t even go to the dr. I try to not kill a non poisonous snake. Kings primarily feed on poisonous species, garters eat rats and mice, and black snakes take care of the rest.

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  47. Barry Bryant said:

    Top to bottom: Northern Copperhead ,Cottonmouth, Massasauga, Western Diamondback.

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  48. Michael Meador said:

    I can identify them and I’ve worked with several of the species mentioned…. and more. One of my passions is photographing snakes. I’ve never needed to harm or kill any of them and I won’t.

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