Post AYCLZf1k7ozG6Abjs0 by MartinR@toot.community
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(DIR) Post #AYC5hMQ7aeJPRNezhI by Trilobyter@mastodon.world
2023-07-29T17:54:35Z
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We surprised each other while I was watering in the back corner of the yard this morning and it zipped back under the fence before I could get a photo but a few moments later it came back and went along the fence for a bit before disappearing back under to the woods behind our property. Posted to a local FB group to confirm the ID but 99% sure it’s a Plain-Bellied Water snake (they are non-venomous). About 3 foot (0.9m) judging by the fence boards.#snakes #BackYardWildlife #nature #photography
(DIR) Post #AYC66g3NjOzNZV60Dw by AusderPampa@dresden.network
2023-07-29T17:59:07Z
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@Trilobyter Finding a snake in my garden would be absolute horror for me. 🙈
(DIR) Post #AYC6xGb76f0Ry9wyP2 by Trilobyter@mastodon.world
2023-07-29T18:08:39Z
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@AusderPampa my wife feels the same, she is looking out the windows now and jumping at every perceived movement she thinks she sees near our back fence. Earlier this year she found one, a tiny non-venomous one, that had snuck into our kitchen, oh what a scream. But there are a lot of snakes where we live so you just have to watch where you step & reach.
(DIR) Post #AYC9J1Us8AdnPlX5pA by AusderPampa@dresden.network
2023-07-29T18:34:59Z
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@Trilobyter I'm quite afraid of snakes, and I remember an episode as a teacher: I had to teach a class in the biology room and initially stood by my desk. As I walked through the rows of students, I only then noticed that there was a herbarium with a snake on my table. Fortunately, I managed to keep my cool. In contrast the two tarantulas right next to it were not a problem at all. 😅
(DIR) Post #AYCBccAUDDLCYhT1ay by Trilobyter@mastodon.world
2023-07-29T19:00:58Z
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@AusderPampa when younger I lived in a rental house near Galveston Bay that was infested with spiders, after that experience I think I would prefer to have to deal with snakes.
(DIR) Post #AYCCkFZaCjVAkfPWYy by AusderPampa@dresden.network
2023-07-29T19:13:32Z
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@Trilobyter Yes, they are. 🙂
(DIR) Post #AYCLZf1k7ozG6Abjs0 by MartinR@toot.community
2023-07-29T20:52:26Z
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@Trilobyter 22 September last year was a day when both my son and I found these a mile apart in #DallasTX (we see them from time to time( Thinking yellow bellied water snakes) #snakes
(DIR) Post #AYCQsMqOS9Lcyg2RdI by Trilobyter@mastodon.world
2023-07-29T21:51:53Z
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@MartinR seems that plain-bellied and yellow-bellied water snakes are the same species though yellow-bellied may be a sub-species. I’ve got a local expert here in the far northern part of the Houston metro area looking at my photo & he will tell me what it is.
(DIR) Post #AYCd7nNLI6C13bZat6 by Trilobyter@mastodon.world
2023-07-30T00:09:08Z
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Final confirmation from a local snake expert, it was a non-venomous Plain-Bellied Water Snake.
(DIR) Post #AYCgC6MwuldazB8Nt2 by b_cavello@mastodon.publicinterest.town
2023-07-30T00:43:30Z
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@Trilobyter image description: photo of snake posted on Facebook with a reply from Nathan Wells saying “good job to those that said non-venomous Plain-bellied Water Snake, Nerodia erythrogaster
(DIR) Post #AYCgDRetFMJ1IrANsG by b_cavello@mastodon.publicinterest.town
2023-07-30T00:43:45Z
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@Trilobyter image description: photo of snake posted on Facebook with a reply from Nathan Wells saying “good job to those that said non-venomous Plain-bellied Water Snake, Nerodia erythrogaster”
(DIR) Post #AYCrtprAlg3U0iKMMq by jake4480@c.im
2023-07-30T02:54:40Z
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@Trilobyter bet he's got a super plain belly under there then