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.

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