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much better picture!!!

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David Hiscock.

Everything about that (except its color pattern) says kingsnake to me, but it is very difficult to say without seeing the snake in person. The head is just not right for a Cemophora to me and it look fairly large for one as well..

I have caught white-bellied scarlet kings like that in South Carolina, although the blotches weren't as reduced, but you are far enough north to be seeing some "temporalis" influence in milksnakes, so I would suspect that is what is occuring here.
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Chris Harrison

...he was beginning to realize he was the creature of a god that appreciated the discomfort of his worshippers - W. Somerset Maugham

It sort of looks like a "Coastal Plains Milksnake" to me. (triangulum x elapsoides)

Bedford is not really "Coastal Plain's" - it's Blue Ridge Mountains.

TA

That's just what the snake looks like to me....I definitely think it is some sort of intergrade, though. Bedford is kind of in the western edge of where you would expect to find them....

it may well be a coastalXscarletXLousiana intergrade. Key it out to be a milksnake and if it is PLEASE save the skin as this may provide some valuable DNA evidence to those working on it. Help me out here guys...the fellow at Murray st,what's his name?? Jeff

It is a Scarlet Kingsnake, not all that uncommon to find them with this pattern and ventral appearance. Have seen two from North FL and several from SC like this. Beautiful animal!

Horridus