Thread: What crawled over my wife's bare foot.

My wife was gardening in sandals, felt something crawling over one of her feet, looked down and saw: A coral snake. Except it had a head when it crawled over her foot. I took the picture the next day. The local variety of coral snakes are neurotoxic and very poisonous (Red and yellow kill a fellow. Red and black friend of Jack, i.e., a harmless and beneficial king snake) but are small and relatively uncommon. Indeed, I have never seen one...

My goodness! Your wife was very lucky by the sounds of it. That's one big BBQ you have it on LYZ!

Eliot, I have not seen many. I came close to catching one that managed to duck into a pile of sticks. I dug around briefly but never flushed him from his hiding place. A guy at work caught one years ago but let it go after a couple of days because he couldn't get it to eat. I think they have a reputation for not doing as well in captivity as our more common and social snakes.

Glad your wife was unharmed!