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Originally Posted by futuresoptions
Holy crap! I didn't think those things were supposed to get over 10-11"s long... if I came across one in my yard at that length I think I would faint... btw I've always heard " Red to yellow kill a fellow, red to black a friend of Jack " Either way in the heat of the moment I am sure I would not remember if it was red to black or yellow to black a friend of Jack and I would have to just kill it and figure out the details later....
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Yes, many a poor King snake has died for that reason.
It was reading up on the Texas Coral Snake and it has fangs that are 1/8" and they are not under pressure. The venom is deadly, BUT they usually need to "hang on" and chew to get enough venom into a human to kill.
That bad news...King snakes are nocturnal, Coral snakes forage during daylight hours. If you see one in the daylight, it is probably a Coral Snake. This means that when we went past the snake, it was probably dead only 20-30 minutes.
For those of you in the Houston area, I took the picture at the corner of Highway 6 and Patterson. This is Bear Creek Park.