[kach22i]

Originally Posted by johnco

I've seen plenty brown earth snakes but never a red one. now it's a red flat earth snake.. no, I wasn't the one that stomped it. I would have just let it go

Do you have any better pictures?

Was it really as red as your photo shows?

With Climate Change there are different snakes, insects and animals migrating to new locations.

Perhaps this is an invasive species?

Example:

Brown Tree Snake
Boiga irregularis
Invasive Species: Animals - Brown Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis)


More local than Guam.

Nine giant invasive snake species threaten U.S. ecosystems, study finds
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2009/10/13/five_giant_invasive_snake_spec/

Skip Snow (National Park Service) measures the length of a captured Burmese python at the South Florida Research Center, Everglades National Park.

Photo courtesy of Lori Oberhofer, NPS