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Old 09-10-2017, 02:07 PM
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There are no POISONOUS snakes in The Villages. There are VENOMOUS snakes in The Villages.

A poison has to be eaten in order for it to be harmful. A venom is injected (such as through a snake fang).

There are rattlesnakes (both the Pygmy and the Eastern Diamondback), water moccasins, and coral snakes in The Villages. The coral snake has a neurotoxin (similar to a cobra venom). The others are hemotoxins which attack the blood system.

I had to learn this information from my time volunteering at the National Zoo in Washington DC.

Very possible that the heavy rain will bring snakes out of their flooded habitat and onto drier ground. Watch out in corners of your garages.