What type of snake?

[avidflyer]

What type of snake is this? I'm in the midwest St. Louis. Live on the bluff's on top of river.

 

[okie]

eastern hognose id guess....i really cant tell by the pic

 

[okie]

we call em spreading adders...if thats what youve got??. But, if it rolled over, and vomited when you accosted him, thats the snake. idk if it was a michelin murder...

 

[Ned Ludd]

Looks like a grey rat snake to me. A very common, beneficial, non-venomous snake. I hope you weren't responsible for his "condition".

 

[okie]

Looks like a grey rat snake to me. A very common, beneficial, non-venomous snake. I hope you weren't responsible for his "condition".

thats looks just like it

 

[avidflyer]

Looks like a grey rat snake to me. A very common, beneficial, non-venomous snake. I hope you weren't responsible for his "condition".

Can't say it was from me, It was in the road while walking the dog today. we do have 3 or 4 types of poisonous snake around the bluff's and around the river. I haven't seen too many grey snakes...that's what caught my attention.

 

[1911mag]

Think it jumped in your range bag from IL and went for a ride

 

[jr600yd]

Don’t know but I’d leave ”Mister No Shoulders” alone!

 

[Coonman300]

It’s a grey rat snake. Very common in my area. Not sure why they call them a grey rat snake instead of grey bluebird snake. I used to always give them a free pass but after having them raid my bluebird houses and purple Martin houses many times I declared war. They get over 6 feet long and have gotten around some of my predator guards. I have a constant problem with rats in tractors and golf carts at my farm and the damn snakes never get them.

 

[Tesoro]

A dead one

 

[FNSafari]

Get t9 know the snakes in your area if u have poisonous ones.

 

[TrapperBR549]

Can't say it was from me, It was in the road while walking the dog today. we do have 3 or 4 types of poisonous snake around the bluff's and around the river. I haven't seen too many grey snakes...that's what caught my attention.

Since it is dead already you can easily identify any venomous snake in Missouri, and I believe the rest of the U.S., by looking at their belly. If there is a single row of scales all the way to the tail they are venomous. If there is a single row to the anus and then a double row from their back to the tail is is not venomous.
I'm not far from St.Louis and have seen copperheads and rattlesnakes on the bluffs. I doubt you would see a cotton moccasin up on the bluffs but I have seen them in southern Missouri.

 

[Alex Wheeler]

 

[rijndael]

 

[TrapperBR549]

I always heard red touch black was friend of jack but same conclusion, Alex's snake is venomous.

 

[Infrequent Shooter]

Red and Yeller, dangerous feller. Red and Black, friend of Jack:

Coral Snake

 

[Kevin1990]

Don’t know but I’d leave ”Mister No Shoulders” alone!

Judging by the picture, I’m going to go out on a limb, and say that advice is a little too late. Haha

 

[338 Mollett]

KILL EM ALL LET GOD SORT EM OUT !!

 

[skeeljc]

Snakes are good once you get to know them. Here is my porch companion. A blacksnake.

 

[cmysix]

venomous or not snakes eat the vermin you don't want in your house, give them a wide berth and leave them be, just hate people who kill things just for the sake of killing it.