How do you know if it's a coral snake?

Answer 1

Coral snakes are relatively small snakes. They are tri-colors - yellow, red and black. The coral snake distinguishes itself from copycats, such as the king snake, by the coloration of the stripes. If the yellow stripes touch the red stripes the snake is a coral snake.

Answer 2

Coral snakes are often mistaken for King snakes, and vice-versa.

The Coral snake is somewhat small, like a garden hose in girth, say, and maybe 18 inches long.

Both snakes have colored bands around their bodies: black, red, and yellow.

The coral snake has a very small mouth, and a black nose. The king snake's nose is white.

The coral snake's colored bands along their bodies have wide red bands (and black) with a narrow yellow stripe next to each end of the red band. The king snake never has yellow touching red.

Here is a useful memory aid:

"Red next to yellow,

Makes a dead fellow."

Answer 3

Look at the ring pattern on the snake's skin and determine if red and yellow rings are touching; if so, this is a venomous coral snake.

• On a coral snake, the ring pattern is: red, yellow, black, yellow, red.
• In the case of a scarlet king snake, the ring pattern is: red, black, yellow, black, red, or maybe blue.
• Remember this rhyme - Red touches yellow, kills a fellow. Red touches black, friend of Jack

See if the snake has a black and yellow tail.

• The venomous coral snake's tail has only black and yellow bands with no red. The nonvenomous scarlet king snake's band pattern remains the same throughout the length of his body.

Look at the color of the snake's head and determine if its head is yellow and black or red and black.

• The coral snake's head is black, whereas the scarlet king snake's head is red with a small area of black on top.

Answer 4

you can identify a coral snake by this saying red touches yellow kill a fellow red touches black poison lack

Answer 5

If you mean telling the difference between a coral snake and a milk snake... Red touches black (Milk snake) Red touches yellow (Coral snake)

Answer 6

The entire body of a coral snake is red and black.