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Posted By: arusha1 Snake Sighting - 02/12/12 02:29 PM
I was bike riding last week on the road north by The Blue Reef
and saw a snake on the road it was Black with Yellow stripping
about 4-6 feet long and maybe 2-3 inches thick. Does anyone
know what kind of snake this is and if you could post photo so
I may confirm
Posted By: elbert Re: Snake Sighting - 02/12/12 03:31 PM
We have mexican Vine Snakes that are about as round as your finger and very long, thus the name Vine Snake', pretty much harmless unless your a frog or lizard.
http://www.google.com.bz/search?q=m...mp;ved=0CDMQsAQ&biw=1442&bih=790
Posted By: TravelinMan1 Re: Snake Sighting - 02/13/12 02:38 AM
Sounds to me like a Boa constrictor.
Posted By: Eskimo Re: Snake Sighting - 02/13/12 03:39 AM
I doubt if it was a boa given the description. Might be a ratsnake though. Did it look like this?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spilotes_pullatus_mexicanus.jpg
Posted By: Eskimo Re: Snake Sighting - 02/13/12 03:39 AM
I doubt if it was a boa given the description. Might be a ratsnake though. Did it look like this?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spilotes_pullatus_mexicanus.jpg


OOPS.
Posted By: Bear Re: Snake Sighting - 02/13/12 04:14 AM
Originally Posted by Eskimo
OOPS.


wink Here S'Kimo,

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Did the OP ever clarify if the stripes were longitudinal or lateral? I was too lazy to ask...
Posted By: arusha1 Re: Snake Sighting - 02/13/12 04:35 PM
Someone said it sounded like a black and yellow mangrove snake.
Never heard of it. Has any one else?
Posted By: Bear Re: Snake Sighting - 02/13/12 06:49 PM
Originally Posted by arusha1
Someone said it sounded like a black and yellow mangrove snake. Never heard of it. Has any one else?


I looked it up but the only reference i found was for a south east asian species...?

For purposes of discussion here's a pic of a boa as suggested by TravelinMan1, not exactly black and yellow but eyewitness accounts do vary! lol wink

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Posted By: Diane Campbell Re: Snake Sighting - 02/13/12 07:06 PM
Ask Simon - he knows. A while back I saw one that sounds like this snake and Simon answered .....
Definitely black and yellow - that much I recall.


Posted By: Bear Re: Snake Sighting - 02/13/12 08:03 PM
Originally Posted by Diane Campbell
Ask Simon - he knows. A while back I saw one that sounds like this snake and Simon answered .....
Definitely black and yellow - that much I recall.


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