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Nice copper head. :congratulatory:
That or a hornets nest
Yikes I hate snakes
Well my ac won't be in working order if I found that. It would be full of bird shot.
I like snakes, and kept many as a kid. My Mom was way cool. Many snakes are shy, and will disappear, given the chance. Copperheads tend to get stubborn, and sull up. I tend to live let things live, as was intended, and let life live. I am only afraid of things crawling on me, if I can't see 'em. Drop a cricket down the back of my shirt, and I will do a ballistic boogie.
Had that happen to me last summer. Was a rat snake but he shorted out the unit by touching two wires. Had to replace the whole unit. They said lizards were more out to do it but they had seen snakes before also. Looking for warmth.
That isn't a Copperhead, that is an Florida White Oak Snake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Dawg
[QUOTE=ChileRelleno;91833]That isn't a Copperhead, that is an Florida.
If I seen that snake here in Tennessee it would be a Copper Head. Apparently they have the same markings.
[QUOTE=Big Dawg;91840]I have to disagree, even with the wide ranging color/pattern variations encountered, that hardly resembles a Copperhead.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChileRelleno
Copperheads don't hang out around people and wouldn't be inside an AC unit.
Head shape, markings, body shape and location are all wrong for copperhead.
Its a rat snake or some variation of a rat snake. Harmless mouse eater.
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Originally Posted by ChileRelleno
I would have agreed with CarlF that it was a gray rat snake. I' not familiar with the other'un---they probably taste the same.
I guess the one I killed on my back porch didn't get the memo.Quote:
Originally Posted by CarlF
how about this: "don't normally hang out around people".....
Juveniles are found in wet bottom lands, then adults move up to drier upland areas.
It is not a rat snake it is an oak snake.
There is a difference.
[QUOTE=Big Dawg;91840]i'm in Tennessee and have seen hundreds of copperheads. it's not even close.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChileRelleno
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Originally Posted by ChileRelleno
A slight difference, same species, different sub-species.
White Oak Gray Rat Snake Elaphe obsoleta spiloides
I'm pretty sure the one that got into my AC was a rat snake but he was pretty crispy after they found him so I was not able to ask him exactly what species he/she was!
Some years back, I was renting a small mobile home in a ten acre pine thicket. Lived in that little old trailer for six years. Had a couple of dogs, cats, domestic turkeys, banty game chickens. And an old lazy copperhead. Mowed around him many times with the push mower. Sometimes pick him up on a forked branch and move him a little. My companions were never bothered with him, so I didn't. He lived in one area at the edge of the mowed yard and the undergrowth of the pines, maybe two hundred feet from the trailer. Saw him leave towards the high ridge above the house one day, and never saw him again. Probably because the owner sold the pines and property two months later. Who knows, maybe he knew before I did.