CLOSED: Please help asap -sorry to sound so urgent

Dea Frederick, MD(Zone 6a) Jun 13, 2007

Got a single Mom who just freaked out and killed a snake in her basement in Virginia. Can anyone tell me if it is a poisonous snake - was I should say....

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Jun 13, 2007

I guess it was a Black snake:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaphe_obsoleta

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Dea Frederick, MD(Zone 6a) Jun 13, 2007

more pics - I do believe it was a copperhead - uggghhhh :(

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Dea Frederick, MD(Zone 6a) Jun 13, 2007

It's body is banded - if this is a copperhead, I will mark it as solved. Thanks

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Jun 13, 2007

It's definitely not a Copperhead.
I think it's a Northern Watersnake

http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/VHS/ec_page_cottonmouth06.jpg

http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/VHS/northern_watersnake.htm

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Dea Frederick, MD(Zone 6a) Jun 13, 2007

Thanks claypa !

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kenanne Monmouth, IL(Zone 5a) Jun 13, 2007

I do believe claypa was right when he said it was a Black snake. It is definitely not a copperhead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_contortrix

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Illoquin Indianapolis, IN(Zone 5b) Jun 13, 2007

He was sounding real good in that Wikipedia article- -goes after chipmunks and other small rodents...but I wouldn't want him in my basement!

Ugggghhhh!

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