On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:28:59 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:21:13 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:37:09 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:06:54 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

Are the black snakes poisonous?

No they are really quite harmless to anything they can't swallow.
They have tiny teeth that barely break the skin on a soft spot like
the inside of your arm and don't hurt my fingers at all.
I had one living in my screen cage for a couple weeks and they are
always around the yard. I still get one in now and then.
It sure did a good job on the bugs, lizards and tree frogs.That's how
I know I have one. Nothing is alive in there.
http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/Black%20racer.jpg
http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/Black%20racer2.jpg
http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/Black%20racer3.jpg

I am the local snake wrangler and I go get them out of other's peoples
pool cages and garages a lot.
I toss them in my yard if I can't talk them into keeping them at in
their yard. I suppose it takes them about an hour to make their way
back but I tried ;-)


The black snake in the picture sequence is a racer? King snakes are
famously known for eating rattlesnakes, too, since apparently they are
immune to rattlesnake venom.

When I was a kid, when I would come across a racer, I would try to
chase it down. It was like a sport, since the racers were so fast. I
never did see a black one, though. The ones I've encountered in our
area have been blue or green.

The southern black racer is more closely related to the northern black
snake from what I understand. They may even be the same crtitter with
environmental adaptation.

That's interesting. The black snake in this area is rather gentle.
The old farmers in the area wouldn't mind the black snakes in their
barns or in the corn cribs because the snakes would eat the rats. I
remember having a black snake as a pet when I was a kid. A person
could handle it without a worry.

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