Can you identify it with certainty? Why is this snake so often a victim?
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- In my experience this is the most frequently killed snake in Virginia. Very few recognize it as a juvenile Black Rat Snake (Pantherophis alleghaniensis) because they assume it would be black as well. In this video I describe other reasons why it is such a frequent victim at human hands. I also explain how to disinguish it from a Copper Head (Agkistrodon contortrix). It seems for many "every snake is a copperhead", snakes must be killed, venomous or not I must kill what I fear, and etc.!
In Maine, even though we do not have any venomous snakes, people often mistake eastern milk snakes and northern water snakes for rattlesnakes because they can be defensive and tend to rattle their tail in the leaves. It's sad that in a State where all of the snakes are harmless they are still killed because of mistaken identity. Keep educating! I love it!
Omg! Thanks for sharing! Wow...that is crazy!
That is amazing! People are so crazy!
Ok he s saying it is a black rat and juveniles until they are a certain length before they lose their blotches and they are all awesome😊❤
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In your video you called it a juvenile black snake thats why I corrected you but then you corrected it a little later on no confusion just misidentified to begin with its good to teach people about snakes but you did call it a black snake but I don't think that they look like copper heads at all the colors are completely different not to mention the patterns and copper heads are thicker bodied like moccasins I think a lot of people just don't like snakes and kill everything they see
Fantastic video! Thanks for showing the differences up close. Makes it easier to keep in mind.
Glad it was helpful!
Black Ratsnakes have always been one of my favorites. When I was young, my neighbors thought I was crazy for riding my bike up and down the road with wild caught Black Ratsnakes draped around my neck.
I also have identified many juvenile Ratsnakes for friends and family. However, I was recently fooled by a juvenile Eastern Yellowbelly Racer. My son brought one home from his workplace. It had gotten stuck in a sticky glue trap. My son painstakingly successfully removed the snake with some vegetable oil and toothpicks. At first I misidentified it as a Ratsnake. The snake is currently staying with me until Winter is over.
Thank you for sharing.
Excellent work with the deadly glue traps! Yes...I have milk snakes, rat snakes, racers and cornsnakes...lol...I always feel inadequate struggling to identify with confidence these juveniles with lots of variation! Agggh!
Mr. Frank Taylor, thank you so much for educating me on snakes and other wildlife here in Virginia. I haven't lived here that long and I need to learn what's around me. I am glad to know that there are Black Rat Snakes here. I every once in a while will see a rat or mouse and I am happier now that I have a friend outhere that can help me keep those rodent population down and second to let me know what I have to look for when walking in the woods and not bothering a Copperhead snake. Thank you
You are welcome! Glad you are enjoying my channel...send me a comment any time you have a question!
I live in Texas - and I absolutely love my rat snakes. They seem to like people, too. One was inclined to keep me company when out in the country alone, and would climb on the front door. He was a big one, too, so no one was going to bother me when I had a guardian snake. ;-)
They are amazingly comfortable around humans....counter intuitive to a wild animal! Fascinating!
What a cute juvenile snake. Great info to know.
Thanks for watching! Appreciate you!
Thank you for showing the differences. Love your videos❤
You are so welcome! And so glad you enjoy my shares!!! That means a lot to me!
I just enjoy your videos so very much. Thank you!
Glad you like them! That means a lot to me!
@natureatyourdoor me as well sir!!!!💜💜💜
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I love my baby black snakes. They ar e very docile. God bless you Frank. Your Pennsylvania student.
Ha! Of course my most loyal Pennsylvania viewer!
Thank you, Frank, for this helpful episode 👏
Always glad I can share with you Connie! Thanks for watching and always supporting my channel!
@natureatyourdoor I just subscribed AGAIN. I was supposed to already be subscribed!!
No wonder I haven't gotten alerts for a while.
@@cookingwithconniemorewohlf4538 well!...lol welcome back!
We have timber rattlesnakes coperhead snakes. They are docile too. On state game land 251 there is a copper head den. . God bless you.
I grew up in East Tennessee, and our juvenile black snakes had a maroon color to them. They were beautiful, and we thought that they were gray rat snakes because we expected black snakes to be black. We'd put them back in the woods hoping to see them grow up to have the patterns and colors of their youth. We were happy to see the black snakes as adults, but I always wondered where the gray rat snakes went and why I never found adults.
I now live far from that part of the country. I have prairie rattlesnakes where I am now. They are nice, but I don't try to hold them. I saw a garter snake the other night, but I'm much too old and too slow to catch a small garter snake. I shooed it off my driveway in case someone tried to turn around. I think it might be living in the culvert under my driveway. My place is extremely dry, and the culvert is the only place that I can imaging being wet enough for a garter snake.
Thanks for sharing your observations and experiences...certainly enriches the channel experience for me and viewers! 😀 yes..I am sure you are correct about that garter snake!
Thank you. This was very interesting. Yes black snakes are good snakes. I have a few big ones that I see every year where I live in the deep woods of West Virginia. I have to make my oldest son leave them alone ,he hates snakes. I say leave them to catch those mice . great video.
The big ones are so cool! Thank you for continuing to educate your son!
@@natureatyourdoor lol. yes. Nature is very important to use all. I try and educate anyone who needs it about nature. A lot of people are just afraid of snakes. My 76 year old mother lives with me and she is very afraid of them. I just tell her those big snakes are out by that huge oak tree today and she stays on the porch. I always walk with her in the yard. God bless you.
The eyes and head are very different, too.
For sure! 👍
This snake can be mistaken for a pygmy rattler also. Sad that some people just don't see past their hate for snakes.
It's like a reflex..they can't help themselves!
From northern Illinois here, I would have called that was a young fox snake.
Cool name!
I have found that the Banded Water Snake is the most mistaken for a copper head.
Locally it's mistaken for a cotton mouth even 400 miles out of range!
i live in Louisiana, and the same happens here, with rat snakes.. also, to so many people, all the various water snakes, are cottonmouths, and they kill them
hognoses are considered pygmy rattlesnakes
when i am called, i try to explain the differences
So true!
So sad that many are killed by miss information.
Yes. I get very disappointed in otherwise intelligent friends and acquaintances!
all snakes are good snakes !
Exactly hairywoodsman!!! 💪💪💪🤠
I would keep one as a pet, but my wife would leave me. I do not hurt black snakes. I've crapped freda over my neck. They do not bite. And I have no mice. They are safe. I had a baby black snakes in my basement. They are really docile. They are safe here. God bless my teacher. And inspiration. .from Pennsylvania.😊😊
Ha! I can't keep one at home either I had 8 different snakes..a 25 lb snapping turtle a 40 foot indoor stream and a monarch breeding and flight cage and 3 50 gallon aquariums all in my classroom..when I was teaching high school.
I'll bet you were one awesome biology teacher. Frank.
I have to confess. I have a pet painted turtle. I saved him from certain death. Tommy was the size of a 50 cent piece. All his brothers and sisters were squished on the road. I've had Tommy for 6 years. Tommy and my beagle Ramus are best friends. They will snuggle together. It's crazy. I love my babies all of them.
@@user-wo2iw3kt8o that is WILD! OMG! too funny!
Some corn snakes look like that
Yes ..I struggle telling a number of look alike juvenile snakes apart!
do you have king snakes there
Yes...but I have yet to find one myself.
As a FL man I think that little rat snake looks a lot like a pigmy rattler. But it's not hard to tell the difference. And if they come from eggs they're not vipers. I think all our vipers are live born.
I love all snakes and if I find a venomous one it will get swept in a bucket or whatever and released, or left alone.
A black racer is a totally different species that doesn't get as big and they're way faster. They bite but don't have venom.
Hi comfortably numb! Check out my Black snake playlist for fun and black racer vs black rat comparison!
Let me know what you think of my snake series!
To bad they don't have these in New York City.
I wonder if they do? I ll have to look that up!
This article has some interesting info! animalcontrol.nyc/types-of-snakes-in-nyc/
Fascinating! nypost.com/2022/12/24/nyc-sees-69-spike-in-snake-complaints-data/
3:43 use the Latin name too, to avoid confusion
Lol...I did say it eventuslly, at 4:13 and typed in spelling! 😉
That's not a juvenile black snake it's a rat snake you can tell by the checkered board belly I I'm not sure if that's a juvenile yellow or grey rat a black snake also has similar markings but that is a rat snake
We are having confusion over common names. It is Pantherophis alleghaniensis, common name...black rat snake, black snake or rat snake. Locally in va our Pantherophis alleghaniensis becomes very black with age. Not to be confused with the Black Racer!
Adorable little snakelets, love them, sooooo sweet, so beautiful 😍😍😍😍 lucky Americans, jeez don't kill them 😭😭 how could anyone but a complete half-wit take these for a Copperhead???? Copper being ..... copper colour and a different morphology and behaviour
Yes...around here EVERY snake is a copperhead!
If they're not venomous, how do they hunt rodents?
They grab them, wrap coils around them, and constrict until the victim can no longer expand chest to breath.
Looks nothing like a copperhead. Do not kill the snakes yes they are good to have around the house.
I know right.?..people will look at it and call it a copperhead immediately. Drives me crazy! ..."every snake is a copperhead"!
I am confused as to why you are handling an anerythrystic corn snake and are calling it a black snake. Corn snakes are awesome though.
I promise it is not a corn snake. But if I am wrong please give me specific details on why you say it is a corn snake so I never make this error again.