Florida Snakes

Colorful Corn Snake

Close-up of Corn Snake Scales

Yellow Rat Snake in Grass

Yellow Rat Snake in Nesting Gourd

Beautiful Rough Green Snake

Tiny Ringneck Snake

Curled Tail Revealing Orange Underside

Black Racer Zig-Zag Following Grooves in Wall

Shy Eastern Coral Snake

Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

Close-up of Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

Since it is that creepy-crawly time of year, here are pictures of snakes that we have seen in Florida over the years.  Sightings are actually few and far between.  The most beautiful snake we’ve seen is the Rough Green Snake.  The biggest and scariest snake we’ve seen is the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (we were in the car and this several-foot-long snake crawled across the dirt road in front of us).  The majority of Florida snakes are nonvenomous, and all native snakes play an important part in the environment.  In this collection only the last two – the Coral Snake and Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake – are venomous.  And in case you want to know, venomous snakes have cat-eye or narrow slit pupils, and nonvenomous ones have round pupils.