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Hi All:

While working in my workshop yesterday, I came across this little guy.

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/index.php?user=118530&cat=500

I had it and it got out. Now I see it may not have been a milk snake at all ,but maybe a copperhead.

I know the pics are fuzzy, but can anyone identify this nearly positively? I have to find it in the house. It is a foot long and pencil thickness.

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Definately NOT a copperhead. It is a colubrid. One of the milksnake types, not too sure of which specifically as I can't find my N. American field guide at the moment.

Cheers
B
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Dr. Bryan Grieg Fry
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Australian Venom Research Unit,
University of Melbourne
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http://www.venomdoc.com

OK Phew! Well then, how do I catch it befoe it dies in the house? I have a Have-A Heart chipmunk trap.....I was thinking wrapping the cage holes and installing a pinky mouse or two.........would this work?

Thanks So Much!
Zukester
Southbury, CT

http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/Lt_triangulum.html

Judging by the pic on this page at bottom, I would agree.......Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum. Almost identical to my photo.

Thanks Again, Doc.

Zukester

More pictures at http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/index.php?photo=298988&user=118530

This was a Canon AE1, nto a cheap digital with no flash. Much clearer.

So it is unanimous? Not a coperhead? How do I attract/catch it in the house?

Zukester

Don't know what it is, but I do know it's not a copperhead

That appears to be a Red Milk!
Go to the milksnake forum on kingsnake and look at the other red milks!

Congrats on the find:
JasonMc