songbird wrote:
Doug Freyburger wrote:
Farm1 wrote:

It'd be nice to live where there were no venomous snakes but I live in an
area where we have highly venomous elapids. That is just a fact of life.
Keep the eyes peeled and wear long pants and boots and that is about the
best I can do if I want to keep enjoying my surrounds.

Move far enough north of the snow line and there are no vemonous snakes
and few enough of the other sorts. You pick your situation and you pay
your price.

As was pointed out this can be south of the snow line south of the
equator or above the snow line in mountainous areas.

EASTERN MASSASAUGA RATTLESNAKE (Sistrurus
catenatus catenatus) is venomous and above the
snow line. not sure how widely it is beyond
Michigan but it is here for sure.

a lady down the road from us here (less than
1/2 mile) had several of them removed from her
property.

even though they are not highly toxic they can
still do some damage and i wouldn't want to be
bitten by one.

That's the only exception I know of. Copperheads seem common near the
snow line but seem to die out in the winter any time they move into a
region where it snows. A few warm years and poisonous snakes can
migrate, then it snows and they are gone again. Except the Eastern
Massasauga.