Common adder Vipera berus Description: Its color is variable. Some adult specimens are completely black, while others have a dark zigzag pattern running along the back. Characteristics: The common adder is a small true viper that has a short temper and often strikes without hesitation. Its venom is hemotoxic, destroying blood cells and causing tissue…
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Western diamondback rattlesnake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Western diamondback rattlesnake Crotalus atrox Description: The body is a light buff color with darker brown diamond-shaped markings. The tail has heavy black and white bands. Characteristics: This bold rattlesnake holds its ground. When coiled and rattling, it is ready to defend itself. It injects a large amount of venom when it bites, making it…
Tropical rattlesnake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Fer-de-lance snake – the most feared snake on the planet – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Jumping viper snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Mojave (Mohave) rattlesnake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
The Mojave Rattlesnake’s (also known as Mohave Rattlesnake, Mojave Green, Mojave Diamond Rattlesnake, and Mojave Rattler) entire body is a cream or sandy color, sometimes pale green (depending upon its surroundings) with darker diamond-shaped markings bordered by lighter-colored scales and black bands around the tail.
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.
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…
All about the Cottonmouth snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treat a Water Moccasin bite.
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.








