They are incredibly shy, hard to sneak up on, and wear bib overalls.
Aside from harmless garter snakes, brown snakes appear on one day in
spring and re-appear in fall. I rousted out a huge black snake last
summer in Kentucky and a timber rattler, but I've never come across one
in Iowa in all my years of crawling around in places I shouldn't be.
This is friendliest place you ever saw, nature-wise.
The young-ling brown snakes are cute as puppies. They'll rise up like a
cobra and make to strike you, but there's nothing there. The adults
just flee for their lives.
Joel W.
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012, at 08:44 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I've never previously investigated what type of venomous snakes are in
> Iowa. It seems you have Copperheads and 4 species of rattler (Florida
> only has 3 species). But the range maps say they're located near the
> western and eastern borders and timber rattlers in maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of
> the southern part of the state. Doesn't look like there's much to worry
> about in central Iowa but it's probably wise not to walk around in waist
> high grass in shorts and sandals. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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