Young Eastern milk snake?



Color looks off to me, but it’s been dead a while. I’m also colorblind.lol

Looks alive to me, as its in one piece!! lol

Looks like what we call a corn snake around these parts.

Edit: Just looked up the milk snake and to my eye they look the same

Harmless unless you are a rodent, insect or other undesirable.

Coworker killed it. We've been giving him a hard time about it. But it was in his house.

When he showed us photos this morning it looked like a 3 or 4 foot snake. He went home for lunch and brought it back with him, it's maybe 12" long. Now we're really giving him a hard time.

Coworker is an imbecile.

Not happy with him. But... killing it in your yard, dumb.
Killing it in your living room, a little more understandable.

Not very good at this but it does look like a corn snake. A girl all dressed in black, carries one around with her at the flea market I help at. Seems harmless.

Let the mice infestation begin. Quite sorry to hear it was killed...

I'm gonna go with corn snake, which is a type of rat snake. Hard to tell between milk and corn at certain phase. The only thing I can see is that this snake looks like it has a "neck" that is thinner than the head. Milk snakes sort have a no neck look.

Eastern Milk snakes we have... in theory. If not, it's not an indigenous critter. We were telling him it was a "red Boa" and it must me his neighbors pet and the poor kid will be devastated.

It appears to be an immature rat snake which turn black upon maturity...

Looks like a "Good" snake to me.

“Red touches yellow, will harm a fellow”?

I don’t see red touching yellow, black divides. Most all snakes by me are harmless. Yes, if inside a bit more troubling.

What a shame,he is an idiot,hope he is over run with mice.
Pure ignorance not to inform ones self on these matters.

It is a Milk Snake. Should have just picked it up and put it outside. No need to kill snakes, even if one ends up in your house.

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Originally posted by sourdough44:
“Red touches yellow, will harm a fellow”?

I don’t see red touching yellow, black divides. Most all snakes by me are harmless. Yes, if inside a bit more troubling.

Red and black, friend of Jack
Red and yellow, could kill a fellow

Only used to differentiate a king snake from a coral snake; the snake in question is neither. The red and yellow on a coral snake are obvious. We're talking primary color type red and yellow.

My wife spotted a baby king snake in our house several years ago. Before I could get to it, my oldest son scooped it and put it in a small bucket. He could identify it and refused to kill it. We took it to a large field near our house and released it.

I was very proud of him and his calm reaction.His younger siblings received a good lesson that day too.



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Originally posted by Micropterus:
It is a Milk Snake. Should have just picked it up and put it outside. No need to kill snakes, even if one ends up in your house.

How can you tell it from a corn snake? I’m just curious as the neck is all I could see from the pic and it says corn snake to me.

corn snake.