How to Identify a Coral Snake

Venomous Coral snake! This is our third coral snake on the new property, which for most people would be a nightmare but for us we’re happy and love to see them! Yea, they’re highly venomous, but really the only way to get bit by one is to mess with it, coral snakes are among the most shy and reclusive snakes. The coral snake’s bright coloration is used as a warning to advertise its toxicity, and the scarlet king piggybacks on this idea. “Red touch black friend of jack red touch yellow kill a fel

South American coral snake, a beautiful venomous snake from the the Peruvian Amazon!! I posted one we found at night a week ago, this one was brought to us by my local friend Emerson! “Red touch black friend of jack”?? Definitely not the case here!! That rhyme is commonly used to tell the venomous coral snake from harmless mimics in the US, but it does NOT apply to coral snakes south of the border!! (Or even in the US as aberrant patterns occur) Another common, but incorrect, “rule” is that cor

South American coral snake, a beautiful venomous snake I caught last week while in the Peruvian Amazon!! “Red touch black friend of jack”?? Definitely not the case here!! That rhyme is commonly used to tell the venomous coral snake from harmless mimics in the US, but it does NOT apply to coral snakes south of the border!! (Or even in the US as aberrant patterns occur) Another common, but incorrect, “rule” is that coral snakes always have a black nose, which as you can see here does not apply. Th