Eyelash pit viper snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

The Eyelash pit viper has very distinctive scales above its eyes

Eyelash pit vipers (also known as Eyelash Mountain Viper, Schlegel’s Palm Viper,Horned Palm Snake, and Eyelash Palmpitviper) are a venomous pit viper that may be identified by 2-3 sharp, spiny scales over each eye giving them the appearance of eyelashes.

Eastern diamondback rattlesnakeCrotalus adamanteus Description: Dark brown or black, outlined by a row of cream or yellowish scales. Ground color is olive to brown. Characteristics: The largest venomous snake in the United States. Large snakes can have fangs that measure 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in a straight line. This species has a sullen disposition, ready…

Eastern cottonmouth snake in a defensive position with gaping mouth

Also known as water moccasin, swamp moccasin or black moccasin. Cottonmouth snake colors are highly variable. Adults are uniformly olive brown or black with a distinctive white or yellowish-white mouth (which they display when threatened). The young and subadults are strongly crossbanded with dark brown, sometimes even copper colored.

The Coral Snake is colorfully marked with rings that are bright blacks, reds, and yellows in color.

The Bushmaster body color is pale brown or pinkish, with a series of large bold dark brown or black blotches extending along the body.

Copperhead snakes, also known as death adder, highland moccasin, red snake, and oak snake, have a chestnut color that dominates overall, with darker crossbands of rich browns that grow darker towards the edges and become narrower on top and widen at the bottom.

Regarding snakes, you should know their habits, how to identify the dangerous kinds, precautions to take to prevent snakebite, and what actions to take in case of snakebite.

Difference in tick appearance when engorged with blood

Ticks are in the same family as spiders and hence share some characteristics with them (e.g. like spiders, Ticks have eight legs). They are parasites living on the blood of other animals a practice which makes them vectors (carriers) of several diseases including Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

Close-up of a Wasp head showing the antenna and eyes

The Wasp, or Hornet (also known as Dirt Daubers, Mud Daubers, Potter Wasps, Velvet Ants, Yellowjackets, Fairyflies), is a rather generic suborder of insects.

Bees are flying insects with brown or black, hairy, fuzz-covered bodies (the hair on their body is used to collect pollen).

Year: 2012

Eyelash pit viper snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

Eastern diamondback rattlesnake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

All about the Cottonmouth snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treat a Water Moccasin bite.

Coral snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

Bushmaster snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

American copperhead snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

How to identify and avoid poisonous snakes and lizards

Tick – the dangers of tick bites, how to avoid them, and how to treat

All about wasps and hornets – their habitat, sting, treatment, and how to avoid their bite.

All about bees – their habitat, sting, and how to avoid being attacked

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