Snakes in Summerville?????? (Goose Creek, Ladson, Marion: home, neighborhood, place to live)

[aponeil]

My husband just remembered there is a saying to help you identify a venomous coral snake versus the harmless milk snake.

Milk Snake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There's a small saying that can help you identifying a Coral Snake.
If red touches yellow - it can kill a fellow ...
This means what it says, but the likelihood of actually dying from a Coral Snake bite is very small.
If red touches black, it is a friend of Jack ...
It's not a Coral Snake but another snake (likely a milk snake).

Here is the coral snake:
http://www.floridasnakes.net/coralsnakes.htm

[pokrplr]

Ohhhhh Yes their in Summerville, even on MY street...

Coming home from work yesterday there was a 5-6 ft one sunbathing in the middle of the street...

Being the humanist that I am, I walk over to him and move him off the road...He only hissed a few times then I guess realized I was trying to help him and cooperated nicely.

Have no clue what kind it was...

[franlou]

Hi
We moved here in Sept from NJ. I hate snakes as much as you. It was a big concern for us. We bought a house in Indian Springs subdivision and we have a ditch behind our house to catch the water when it rains. My next door neighbor is a local. It seems like everyone else in our area are from out of state.Well now that the warm weather is here we have been seeing snakes sunning themselves on the bank of the ditch. My neighbor has been checking them out and she said they are black racers (harmless). As soon as they here you or come to close they are gone. In the water we have seen little brown snakes. She said they are mud snakes (harmless). ON the otherside of the ditch is all woods, so I'm concerned about rattlesnakes but my son lives nextdoor to me on the other side and he loves creatures. He goes in the woods everyday looking for snakes but hasn't found any. We also heard there are water moccassins which are poisonous but we haven't seen any. Our neighbors haven't either. I figure these snakes probably eat frogs and bugs and we have plenty of frogs so I'm assuming there aren't any moccassins around us ( I hope). My back yard is small even though we own the land across the ditch. We have a pretty big inground pool and the cement around it goes to the top of the ditch. We are aware and check every morning for bad snakes before we let the grandchildren out.
I'm sure this is not what you wanted to hear but thats our story and we're OK with it. We love it here.

Fran

[justifi]

hi well there are snakes here but they are most often near water or wooded areas. The type you would see in a yard in a common area would be non poision .

[carolinasweets]

There was a black rat snake in my backyard yesterday. Harmless though.

[aponeil]

Hey Jakeleo
Not that this is the best indicator, but I thought it was a bit of a good sign... My DH was down there this weekend scouting the area and didn't see one snake! ;-)

[atlantagreg30127]

Originally Posted by Jakaleo

Does anyone know if some towns are less likely to have snakes, or is it just something you have to "suck up" and deal with?

That's kinda like saying are there any towns that have no nature. Snakes are part of the wildlife in SC (as anywhere in the suburban South) and you're not going to scape them. Sorry.

OH, and with global warming, the Bermese Pythons from Florida are migrating northward too - so you might need to look out for these little babies in a few years...


Sorry - HAD to.

[tgava]

If you look a few posts up to franlou, that's my mom. Here's a picture of a new snake we've had behind the house for about 4 days now ... he lives under the cement lip of the in-ground pool. He's a red bellied water snake, totally harmless. They say he eats frogs and lizards. I don't know if you can tell by the picture but he's about 4 feet long.

[gdog1985]

Originally Posted by Jakaleo

Hi all,

I was hesitating asking this question for fear of people thinking I am nuts but I saw that someone else had posted a question about bugs so here it goes...
I know there are snakes in SC, but do you ever see them within the neighborhoods? I am extremely scared of snakes. I am not the "outdoor" type, but would not want snakes(especially harmful ones) around my home. I am planning on moving to Summerville within the year and would just like to prepare myself. Any info would be great!

We've been here for 2 years and I saw my first snake the other night here in West Ashley. I saw another one this morning on my back porch. We back to the water so I know that's where they come from. They're harmless however they do have rattlesnakes over on the Weapons Station in Goose Creek.

[Summering]

I have not in the five years of going to the Myrtle Beach area seen a snake......and we stay with an inlet of water behind us. Turtles yes. Plenty of turtles around.
However, I don't know about Summerville........when a new development takes up land........the wildlife gets misplaced.
It is not like up here in Pa where you can just go sit by the water..........although our little fellow was bit while hiking in Pa by a black snake, just last year.
He moved a rock in a wooded, pooled waterfall area..........and woop.........the snake was not happy. Lucky we had just looked up there the water snakes in Pa were not venamous.........but 911 was called and a swift boatride to the landing area met up with the emergency guys. The little guy was fine..........all checked out.........An experience he will surely remember.