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Old 03-16-2015, 08:48 AM
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Originally Posted by gap2415 View Post
There are only 3 poisonous snakes in Florida and the vast majority of people never ever see one of them as we are a danger to their living out their lives. Harmless ones, help us by eating insects, mice etc....things we don't want in our homes. I used to be terrified of all of them until I got to know the differences between them and 99% have been some form of harmless racers/garters and the odd harmless rat snake. We fear what we don't know most often so it was a good study. I also got to think of them as ailementary canals which we all have from our mouth to the bottom end. They just didn't develop arms and legs.
The Florida Museum of Natural History disagrees with that.


List of Venomous Florida Snakes :: Florida Museum of Natural History
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