South Florida Garden Snakes

The florida banded water snake for example is common near bodies of water and is entirely harmless.

South florida garden snakes. Here is a quick look at most of florida s snakes by pattern. Nbc 2 reports that vipers and venomous snake populations. What does a garden snake look like. Florida snake identification key common garter snake.

The most common snakes in florida. South florida s snakes. State of florida non venomous. Red belly snakes florida brown.

Thamnophis sirtalis linnaeus 1766 the following will separate the two garter snakes found in florida if you are unable to distinguish between them based on the characteristics in the key below you probably can do so using the geographic location alone. Black racers southern black racer. Garden snakes nicknamed garter snakes come in many varieties various colors and have different markings depending on your area of the country. One of the most common snakes of florida you might spot these in highly populated areas usually green or brown in colour with stripes of a pale colour running down the length of it.

The same applies to ringneck snakes and bimini blind snakes which you can find in gardens and yards. Water moccasins aren t the only aquatic snake in florida. Although there are 50 species of snakes in the sunshine state there are only six that are venomous to humans. Believe it or not snakes are just as frightened of you as you are of them and in most instances they will move as quickly as possible in the other direction when they come into contact with you.

Florida has 44 native varieties and only six of them are venomous so the great majority of snakes you might see are non venomous even if capable of inflicting a painful bite. The garter snake is often confused with garden snake although this is a name mistake more than anything else. Different species of snake can often be distinguished by their characteristic color patterns. This list of snakes of florida includes all snakes in the u s.

Of florida s 46 native species of snakes 34 are found in the south florida region shown in dark green on this map including four of the six venomous species timber rattlesnakes and copperheads are only found in north florida three non native species are also found in south florida. Ponds rivers and streams you re likely to see water snakes. Venomous snakes are coming out of hiding in florida trappers warn and the situation is simply a part of living in the sunshine state. Others have dark or light markings organized into stripes spots blotches or some other pattern.

Florida snakes visual identification. An american alligator and a burmese python in everglades national park.