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Arkansas snake ID
Posted on 7/2/24 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 7/2/24 at 3:29 pm
Brother is in the ozarks and sent me this. im not super up and up on my Arkansas species but i have my guess. anyone?
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Posted on 7/2/24 at 3:35 pm to caro81
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Posted on 7/2/24 at 3:40 pm to caro81
That's a yellow/brown spotted hillbilly rock viper. Set the woods on fire before its too late!
Posted on 7/2/24 at 7:01 pm to caro81
Definitely looks like a hognose but everyone I’ve ever seen in La were black.
Posted on 7/2/24 at 7:33 pm to REB BEER
There’s an eastern, western, and southern species but all of them can have crazy colors or just be black/brown. Every one I’ve ever seen is dark brown to black.
Posted on 7/2/24 at 7:37 pm to caro81
Looks like some type of inbred version of a hog snake and his sister or mother. If you pick it up and it hisses "woo pig, soohie!" then it is definitely an inbred hog snake.
If it hisses and then rolls over and plays dead, it's a hognose.
If it hisses and then rolls over and plays dead, it's a hognose.
Posted on 7/3/24 at 12:53 am to Tigerinthewoods
I've seen hognose variations in color here in arkansas. Young are very colorful...mid adults are tan...older adults are black. All depends on age
Posted on 7/3/24 at 7:03 am to TigrrrDad
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Hognose…that lucky bastard.
I count only eight or ten that I have been fortunate to encounter in my 68 years and I haven't seen one in quite a while.
Far and away my favorite snake. I still spend quite a lot of time in the woods and I hope to see at least one more before the Lord takes me.
Posted on 7/3/24 at 7:52 am to Tigerinthewoods
There used to be tons of them in Caddo Parish when I was a kid in the seventies. We'd keep them for a while to play with. Love when they'd cobra hood on ya.
Posted on 7/3/24 at 9:43 am to caro81
Shape of head definitely looks like hognose but I haven't see one with the rest of the markings.
As the snake "experts" always insist on adding "best observed from a distance" to be safe.
As the snake "experts" always insist on adding "best observed from a distance" to be safe.
Posted on 7/3/24 at 10:25 am to Captain Rumbeard
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There used to be tons of them in Caddo Parish when I was a kid in the seventies
Same here. Last one I saw was in Lincoln parish about 5 years ago. My dad called the Spreadin' Adders when we were kids.
Posted on 7/3/24 at 10:53 am to REB BEER
Apparently they are all over the place in the pine forests northeast of Pensacola around Milton but I have never seen one. Hope to one day.
Posted on 7/3/24 at 11:11 am to Tigerinthewoods
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I still spend quite a lot of time in the woods
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Tigerinthewoods
Name checks out.
Posted on 7/3/24 at 12:08 pm to caro81
Thanks everyone, my guess was eastern hognose. i did the cobra bluff on him. said it was about 2 feet long and thick so maybe gravid female?
i did not know they were so hard to come by in the wild. i'll let him know how lucky he was to see it.
i did not know they were so hard to come by in the wild. i'll let him know how lucky he was to see it.
Posted on 7/3/24 at 1:01 pm to caro81
I have only seen two. One was the best pet snake I ever had until I figured out it simply would not eat anything I tried to feed it. The other was swimming from Tx. to La. across Toledo Bend.
Posted on 7/3/24 at 11:44 pm to AlxTgr
Toads....they love toads. I have a huge pit full of water with hoards of toads around. I see hognose eating the toads all the time.
The adults eat the big toads laying eggs and the little hognoses eat the little toads as they come out of the water
The adults eat the big toads laying eggs and the little hognoses eat the little toads as they come out of the water
Posted on 7/4/24 at 10:33 am to caro81
Colors look like a hognose. But I dont see the turned up nose so leaning towards a water snake.
My very favorite snake to catch. Ive caught maybe a dozen or two over the years. They will hiss, strike with there mouths closed, throw up and flip over and play dead. Cool snakes.
Im old so if the nose is turned up a bit definitely a hognose, if not its not one
My very favorite snake to catch. Ive caught maybe a dozen or two over the years. They will hiss, strike with there mouths closed, throw up and flip over and play dead. Cool snakes.
Im old so if the nose is turned up a bit definitely a hognose, if not its not one
This post was edited on 7/4/24 at 10:36 am
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