Tom's Bird Feeders and Reptile Supplies

There, crawling slowly across the gravel of our driveway was a beautiful 14 inch long Arizona Coral Snake. I quickly brought into my head the old adage “Red to yellow kills a fellow. Red to black venom lack.” I did this because, in addition to having the highly venomous neurotoxic Coral Snake locally we also have the Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake in the area and the New Mexico Milk Snake is native to the next mountain range to the east of us. Both are harmless Coral Snake “look a likes.” The above adage helps to sort out the venomous from the harmless. [...]