WTF - Snake!

[axe]

Ferdelance are pit-vipers so they sense heat...i remember back in the day they would strike at hunters carbide lights and extinguish it.....man would then scatter!

Their backs dont break when they miss ....that is a local myth....they are just closer....saw a couple sleeping on the track to Matelot falls one time

[Bosse]

Guys what kind of snake is this?

Just crawled out from my yard

[hustla_ambition101]

Looking like a rat snake....

[hondamatic]

This is the real thing to see them with in the night ! $850
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[shake d livin wake d dead]

Daz a long mofo

[hustla_ambition101]

Daz a long mofo

Thats what she said

[rollingstock]

Daz a long mofo

Yuh watch the size in comparison to the bricks behind or the fact that it's on a rake?
Thief head thing.

[sMASH]

Its long, considering the ones I come across are usually one brick length, or less.

[streetbeastINC.]

I love when ppl call baby maps "" rat snake""

[rollingstock]

^ head shape and patterning was a giveaway.
More dangerous than an adult.

[sMASH]

^ now allyuh haVe me wondering about what does come in my yard

[JayB27]

That is not a mapperpie...

[nervewrecker]

Thats one of them cat eyed snake. Better to have them around than not have them.

[rollingstock]

Cat and snake doh mix lol

Any clearer pic? Seeing the large eyes typical of the cat eyed but the pattern is very distinct and the head shape. Where de 2nr snake wrangler?

[nervewrecker]

Doesnt look like distinct diamond or zig zag pattern

[Strugglerzinc]

Would love clarification as i have these regular round where i live.

Need to know if i have to move.

[Bosse]

Cat and snake doh mix lol

Any clearer pic? Seeing the large eyes typical of the cat eyed but the pattern is very distinct and the head shape. Where de 2nr snake wrangler?

Sorry that's the only pic I could of gotten, it was moving real swift

The back of it had like diamond patterns

I took the same rake and flung it over my wall into the bushes

What i would like to know if it is poisonous so next time I see one I would know how to deal with it

[88sins]

That's a cat eyed night snake, not a mapepire. Nonvenomous and helpful with keeping mouse and lizard populations in check. They don't get very long either. Biggest I've ever saw was almost 3'
It easy to tell the difference, the markings are wrong, scale pattern is wrong, the head shape doesn't look suitable to the species, and most important check the tail.

A juvenile mapepire that size, the last few inches of his tail would be an off white-cream color.

[Strugglerzinc]

Great, at least i dont have to sell my house now.

[rollingstock]

Yeah you could just burn it down.
Start fresh.

[rspann]

All snake is mappipire to me.

[Strugglerzinc]

Snake will just laugh at me. Dem still there after i bun dong house.

[Corn Bird]

think a mapepire of that length would be fatter. photo shows newborn mapepire which already are fat relative to length

[meccalli]

Could be a cat eyed snake as well, they're fer de lance mimics. Mapepires seem to have much more definite lines and triangular markings whereas it's much more rounded on the mimic.

[nervewrecker]

Yip, thats a "mappapee", very very pretty snake.

[streetbeastINC.]

wasnt saying that it was a map, i just meant .. living in the area i live , there are many types of snakes, and everytime someone sees a little snake they always call it a rat snake, sometimes it is a rat snake sometimes its not...esp the mistake ppl make when dealing with venomous coral snakes because of the rhyme...which is not accurate at all......

[nervewrecker]

I know how it feels to be unsure. Esp when you couod be dealing with a mapp. That aint no snake to joke with

[HSA]

Cleaning up some old galvanize and saw this ....some say its a rat snake and some say its a rainbow boa....i donno...any idea tuners??

[The Paleontologist]

Looks like a rainbow boa but i could be wrong.

[JayB27]

Very beautiful rainbow boa. Unfortunately dead now...