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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: JW_Halverson on September 29, 2011, 10:45:25 pm

Title: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: JW_Halverson on September 29, 2011, 10:45:25 pm

Look who showed up here in South Dakota!

(http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo100/JW_Halverson/DSCN0743_850.jpg)

Bitey little fellow, too.  Didn't think we had anything like this in the area!  Gotta be rather freshly hatched, check out his size compared to the quarter.

I was pretty tempted to make a bow just for him to back, but I didn't.  He went to a guy that has ever SD native snake except whatever this guy might be.  I know enough to tell a bullsnake from a rattler.

Title: Re: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: Rick Wallace on September 29, 2011, 10:52:26 pm

We have those here in Fl,  i always called them milk snakes,,dont know what the proper name is,,hes pretty!

Title: Re: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: mullet on September 30, 2011, 12:46:33 am

 It's the Scarlet King Snake in Florida.

Title: Re: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: cracker on September 30, 2011, 09:41:45 am

That's what I was thinking Eddie, he'd make a gorgeous bow if he was six feet long. Ronnie

Title: Re: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: GregB on September 30, 2011, 09:56:22 am

I'd bet they're often mistaken for a coral snake...I think the color band series are different between the two, at least I've heard that.

Title: Re: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: Justin Snyder on September 30, 2011, 11:01:58 am

Looks like a scarlet king snake to me.

Title: Re: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: Polar Bear on September 30, 2011, 11:07:17 am

Shoulda kept it.  Ya coulda fed it till it was big enough for your bow.  Shouldn't take more than 2-3 years.

Title: Re: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: nclonghunter on September 30, 2011, 11:36:45 am

How about an arrow wrap....much prettier alive.

Title: Re: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: mullet on September 30, 2011, 01:55:20 pm

 GregB, they are pretty easy to tell apart, Red on black, friend of Jack, Black on yellow kill a' fella.

Title: Re: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: Kpete on September 30, 2011, 02:05:58 pm

A factory in my home town in Nebraska used to get Lumber from various parts of the nation.   
There were some interesting critters that would show up after hitching a train ride in a stack of lumber.
Snakes included.
That's a quarter-I thought it was trash can lid-guess I better put my glasses on.

Title: Re: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: JW_Halverson on September 30, 2011, 03:11:48 pm

Got the word from an expert, he's a pale milk snake, Lampropeltis triangulum.

Not common by any stretch, listed in South Dakota as a "species of interest", meaning not endangered or threatened, but very uncommon.

Title: Re: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: Postman on September 30, 2011, 03:27:46 pm

Pretty snake - color is variable in it's range. Most Northeast (VA) ones look like this:

Title: Re: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on September 30, 2011, 03:52:21 pm

Myabe that pen making fellow on here would want that little fart?

Title: Re: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: JW_Halverson on September 30, 2011, 06:19:07 pm

NOOOO!  He's too cute!  Besides, he's in the home of a collector and herpophile already. 

Title: Re: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: stickbender on September 30, 2011, 07:05:08 pm

     I believe the Scarlet Kingsnake, doesn't have the black nose, but rather a silverish color.

                                                                        Wayne

Title: Re: Say hello to my leetle frien'
Post by: crooketarrow on October 02, 2011, 05:46:03 pm

 LOOK GOOD ON AN ARROW.