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It looks like a kind of banded, black white and red. what is it?

Well, assuming you live in Paraguay, I would say its a tri-colored hognose snake. But if you live in Arizona and the snake was 12 inches long, I would say it was a banded sand snake. If you live in the jungles of Brazil and the snake was 27 foot long, I would say its an Anaconda, regardless of what color it was, or appeared to be. But since you decided to give us almost no information that could possibly help identify this snake, I'm going to guess it was a carp.

Joe

Sounds fishy to me.

I found one like that on my front perch one day. It was a female, I think, but then I lobster and I never flounder again.

Hey old guy: i'm 36. And have seen a fiew snakes, in a fiew places. just seeing if any one else had in the north eastern virginia area. Does the challange sound well a challange. Been at it for 10 years. A friend of mine is about to publish on chromasoam, studies to finnaly determin the types of species that actualy make up the coastal milk complex; and not a munite to soon either. Md pops have allready shown red rat in the pool.

That sounds pretty interesting...odd, but interesting. Corn Snakes intergrading (hybridizing) with Easern Milks in the wild? Who's doing this study, and who's sponsoring it? I'd like to see some of the documentation...sounds a little far-fetched to me, but I guess anything's possible. I found an Eastern Cottonmouth today (a very large, healthy individual) probably 75 miles north of the northernmost point where I would expect to find one in Georgia. It was in a cold mountain stream, too. Very odd. I've been going to this area for 15 years or more now and that's the first one I've found there. I've heard peole say they were there, but just blew them off thinking they were seeing Water Snakes. I've found a few Copperheads and a few Timber Rattlers around there, but never a Cottonmouth.

hey thanks for the reply, the study is maryland D.N.R , using geneticaly isolated[not touched by other than plastic bag] sheds to find out what is realy going on in the ,coastal complex. AND FIELD COLLECTIONS. Some of which i have helped in, but would like to see if the old populations, that were here, still stand .
Acording to one of the main contributors of the study, sevral
of the populations have been exterpitated.

Thank you for contacting me, this fourm is just as tough as the phylomedusa page to get any one to answer a new name.
The area is north eastern virgina.
Thanks

I suppose it could be a scarlet king-although they are usually banded red, black and yellow but variations happen.

Could be an Eastern milk-if you mistook the saddles for bands.

L

Thanks again for the answer, Don't you find it a little odd,
for a scarlet to be so far north of the pamlico sound, in nc?
the reason i put the call out like that was, most people just don't answer. I'm trying to get a fiew local's in north eastern va recently recorded, eastern milk sightings. I have some 8 to 10 years back .

Well, Scarlet kingsnakes aren't found in VA... but Scarlet Snakes are (Cemophora coccinea) - supposedly in the eastern half of VA. I've lived here all my life, and have NEVER seen one, but the field guides say they're here...

Wish I'd have seen it!!
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Bonnie Keller
PH Scales
Kingsnake.com Site Coordinator

thanks for the help, the hope was to get into gear some northern va people together and find and secure some of the last bastions of eastern milk colonies left.
By the way the only scarlet snake iv seen was in pamlico n.c, had me jumping. I also have a spotter in hyde that saw one in ,02.

My field guide show them that far north and east-but well, they aren't always right-according to my field gudie I shouldn't have Smooth Greens in my yard-but I have alot of them. But no Northern Browns, Ribbons, or Red Bellies-contrary to the book-if I drive 5 miles north of here-I can find them. LOL

I have to post the Eastern Milk I found the other day-it's red (very red), white and black and when viewed from above-it looks banded. That's why it crossed my mind that it could be that.

here's something odd but true-I had a guy call me about a snake in his yard-description: "5 feet long, yellow with H's on it's back and a red and black tail" well, for the life of me I couldn't think of anything that looked like that-he called a day later for me to come and look at the snake-guess what it was.
An escaped Boa Constrictor-which no one ever claimed to own BTW.
It now has a very good home-not with me though.

It's a point to consider when trying to ID a snake unseen.

L

thanks again for the help. hope to see that milk posted soon.