Reptiles&Amphibians - Carlton Reserve, Sarasota Natural Land and Wilderness

Friends of the Carlton Reserve 1800 Mabry Carlton Parkway Venice, FL 34292

How to differentiate coral snake from its "mockups" :

Gary Lute:We also have the native Scarlett snake Cemophora coccinea. It has the same color as the Scarlett Kingsnake but the rings do not extend across the belly. Also the Scarlett snake can have white instead of yellow rings.

If you can't remember the color arrangement look at the tip of the snout. The 2 non-venomous snakes have a red tip snout, the venomous Coral snake will have a black tip snout.

Aberrant (not typical) color patterns do occur so it's best to leave it alone if you are unsure what it is. All of these rules are for our region only, if you go south of the border do not rely on them.

Eastern Diamondback

photo by Troy Franson

Spotted this week, Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes

Mating and spring time--ride and tread carefully.

Photos by Sherm Stratton and Dave Schaefer

Banded water snakes

(not poisonous)

photographed in the Reserve

by Art Smith

Yellow or eastern rat snake

Pantherophis alleghaniensis

Carlton Reserve

Thursday, March 21, 2019

Tiny grasshopper catches ride on softshell turtle as she goes ashore to lay eggs on the W. Powerline near the Myakka River

click picture to enlarge

President

Linda@carltonreserve.org

Membership

Dan@carltonreserve.org

Information & Website

Sherm@carltonreserve.org

Park Naturalists:

Meghan Harris Meyer

mmharris@scgov.net

Art Jensen

ajensen@scgov.net

Counter set 03/24/2015

SARASOTA WEATHER

Sarasota County

Field Guide

to Conservation Lands

(download 64pp. PDF)

Field Guide.pdf

Adobe Acrobat Document 3.8 MB

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