re: Alabama coral snake bite victim...

White?

That’s racist.

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Coral snakes would have to bite you on the skin between your fingers, skin between your toes, or other areas where you have loose skin. Their fangs need loose skin for the fangs to get the venom into your blood stream.

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This is false. The wife of the neighbor beside our hunting lease in Belmont TX was stuck in the ankle by a coral snake that made it into her screened porch. She ended up being air lifted to a hospital in San Antonio where she had a heart attack after being given anti-venom. She lived after a long hospital stay and seemed OK as she told us the story around our campfire. The husband said the hospital bill was over a hundred grand. I saw one at our camp also.

Point is, they CAN strike and kill you dead, or worse.

I have seen one in the Lafayette area years ago. The only one I've ever seen in the wild. I guess there is an outside chance the guy saw a Texas Coral Snake in an area he considers the atchafalaya basin, but it does look like the closest area in their range would be the Vermilion River margin north of Abbeville.

https://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/serpentes/texas-coral-snake

It's difficult to imagine anyone could mistake those two.

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I seen two in my lifetime in the Basin and three in my lifetime.

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I doubt this more than I doubt black panther stories...

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About 30 years ag, I saw one in a pine forest in Hammond(Tangipahoa Parish) was . I killed it with a 12gauge and brought it home to be sure. I was in Boy Scouts at the time and remember my scout master telling us they were extremely rare to see....which is why I killed it

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in the mid 80s i participated in a search in the florida parishes for eastern diamond backs in the florida parishes - after 2 verifiable reports from near franklinton - we hit about 25 areas that had very similar habitat to the area near franklinton - we found many copper heads - many many canebrakes - ZERO... diamondbacks - but the group did document about 15 coral snake finds - BUT there were 3 guys that were really trying to find them - turning over large logs and wedging up decomposing tree roots - none of the corals were easy to find - only 3 or 4 were "out in the open"


i caught one in 1974 at the old money hill campground - I was 9 years old... brought it home in a pillow sack - about a dozen kids living in my neighborhood handled it - the snake was very docile - a relative was at my house visiting and I had 4 snakes captive he saw that one and freaked out.... took it in the container I had it in brought it back to money hill... he let us slide he deserved to live--- it was small about 12 -14 inches or so.. I was about 2-3 days away from force feeding it.....

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Coral snakes would have to bite you on the skin between your fingers, skin between your toes, or other areas where you have loose skin. Their fangs need loose skin for the fangs to get the venom into your blood stream.


This is false. The wife of the neighbor beside our hunting lease in Belmont TX was stuck in the ankle by a coral snake that made it into her screened porch. She ended up being air lifted to a hospital in San Antonio where she had a heart attack after being given anti-venom. She lived after a long hospital stay and seemed OK as she told us the story around our campfire. The husband said the hospital bill was over a hundred grand. I saw one at our camp also.

Point is, they CAN strike and kill you dead, or wors

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I think 3 of the 4 bites in La in the past 25-30 years were people getting bit on the foot barefoot...

the one on the hand..... well.. he was asking for it....