On Mon, 03 May 2004 18:05:41 -0300, wrote:

In , on 05/03/04
at 01:26 AM, EROSPAM (Ka30P) said:

You can also catch a snake in a minnow trap baited with a live fish.
Leave part of the trap above water so the snake won't drown and then
transport to a rural area.
Your local animal control can advise you to do if the snake turns out to
be a cottonmouth.

Cottonmouths don't have stripes. No U.S. venomous snakes do.


Alan

Let's see, there's several different coral snakes:
http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/may/p...westcoral.html
http://www.wf.net/~snake/coral.htm

and timber rattlers:
http://www.mpm.edu/collect/vertzo/he.../factshe1.html

and copperheads:
http://www.kingsnake.com/venom/

You sure about that? :-)

Maybe it depends on your definition of "stripes", but those all look
pretty striped to me, and I'm sure they would to your average
frightened homeowner.


Mike Patterson
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