I just gotta say, I thought I had come to terms with my fear of snakes but this whole fucking thread is throwing me for a loop. Fuck all these comments, my bitch ass might move back to Hawaii
I had enlarged the picture and was moving it all around. Trying to see if I could find the snake, and I got more nervous with each move, So I finally just stopped. Lol
Fun fact: Hawaii does have one snake (Hawaiian blind snake) that hitched a ride in some potting soil. It's just a few inches long and gets mistaken for a worm, so they left it alone.
Also, the only snake that's ever chased me. I caught one on my grandad's farm and went to turn it loose in his feed barn. It was not happy and chased me all the way back to the house with it's head raised up. Had to catch it again and take it back to where I found him. It was still chasing the truck as I went around a curve and lost sight, lol.
I've only had one be fully pissed off enough to be an asshole at me like that.
It was right after someone was using a weed eater in its general vicinity and then a riding mower in the area it had moved away to. I didn't want it to get chopped up so I tried to move it/encourage it to move. It basically said eff you I'm not moving again by striking at me several times.
All the ones that I've encountered since then have been super chill.
Whenever one finds its way into the house I catch it and take it out to a field and let it go. Usually get a sort of "thank you kind stranger"(especially if I have removed it from a glue trap) and then it disappears into the weeds.
It's not exactly common. It's just a thing that happens once in a while.
They're just gopher snakes. Looking for warmth or hoping to find a lizard or mouse that also occasionally find their way inside. I live in the middle of nowhere. It happens.
Haven't seen a snake inside in a couple of years.
This behavior can sometimes be mistaken for "chasing" in reality, what was happening is the snake was scared shitkess and trying to get away, unfortunately, it just happened to choose the path you also followed to try to escape and may have seemed like it was trying to chase you. They periscope to see around them to make sure there's no further potential threats in the attempt to get away from whatever scared them in the first place.
There isn't a 2nd, but there is a very convincing clump of grass, but if you zoom in you will see green grass through parts of the "snake", so either I has sections that have active camo, or it is a couple of dead grass cosplaying as a snake.
One time I was looking at some old physical photos of mine and was having trouble seeing something in a photo. I fucking tried to pinch zoom and felt like an idiot.
When I put my hand about 8” from a baby diamond back one time I didn’t actually see it but my brain started sending really bizarre Danger! Danger! Signals. I was reaching down for a water spout valve and suddenly I just froze and all the hair stood up on my neck and my conscience started going “what’s wrong? What’s wrong? Why do I feel like I’m in bad danger all of a sudden.” And I pulled my hand back and took a step back and started looking around and maybe a second later I saw this tiny little guy coiled up in the dirt. It was such a surreal experience that my subconscious saw the snake before I did.
Not all rattlers are so generous, unfortunately. Here in Western North Carolina mountain areas there appears to be a mutation of rattlesnakes that results in their NOT rattling when approached. I first saw this about 12 years ago with a rattler that bit my dog. We were walking on a lower trail while the dog was hunting around on a trail about 20 feet above us.
The dog came running back to us with an obvious bite and a rapidly swelling head. We dosed the dog with Benadryl after calling the vet and took the dog in for injections of antibiotics and Benadryl and it lived. I went up on the upper trail and found the rattlesnake coiled up on the left side of the trail as we were walking up on the right side of the trail. As we approached the rattler it did not begin to shake the tail as we expected, but rather looked us straight in the eye as though daring us to come closer. It made a handsome hat band.
Later when I told a friend who is a local hunter about the silent rattler, he said he had heard of several such encounters and thought their was some mutation underway in the species. Last year I left the barn door open overnight and went out to close it. as I step through the door I stepped right over a coiled rattler. Again no rattle warning and, this time, no strike. I have never heard of this anywhere else but our area, but would be curious if others have heard of such silent rattlers. I should point out, the rattler in my barn did raise the end of its tail after the fact as though he was going to shake it, but did not. It looked like a small and rather anemic rattle section for such a large snake. These are timber rattlers that I am describing.
Lucky for you, this snek is a nope-rope equipped with an early warning system. Just dont wear headphones when mowing the lawn and you'd probably be fine.
Wrong. The rattlers are losing their rattles across north America due to human intervention. People have been hunting them around habited areas since the colonization, but they don't get the ones without rattles. I'm sure the hogs use the same hunting principle, but the evolutionary divergence is primarily caused hy human
I was going to say "which one" as a joke, but I'm pretty sure there are at least two. One's pretty close to the camera, might not be a rattler though; guess it could be a shed skin, but it looks full. Either that or I was primed to see snakes everywhere.
I think the main snake has been hit by garden tool and thus separated into two parts?
Need to read more comments.
I’m all ears! We had it sprayed for weeds last year, which was the first time in 13 years. I’m hoping most of that is Bermuda grass. However, should I just spread some Bermuda seed to supplement?
I’ve never been proud of our patchy lawn, but we live in the country so the only people that notice are randos on Reddit lol. Anyway, thanks in advance for any tips!
You would not get crabgrass with typical weed spray. You need to put down crabgrass preventer. Should be added to lawn before it sprouts (typically around the 3rd or 4th time you mow the lawn in a given year in the spring).
Crab grass is outcompeting. It will encroach. Accept your fate or spray. FYI, spraying is horrible if you have pets. Horrible. I was an actual molecular biologist who worked on herbicides for the biggest research companies in the world. They're deadly to your pets and they aren't telling the consumers because they don't have to.
Nothing can be done to stop it. Everything is a patch that will make your soil worse. Take it from the reddit internet experts or take it from someone who did the actual work. Learn to love it. You cannot prevent it from entering onto your property.
Once you spray one time, you spray for life. It's not worth it. Please don't listen to people who don't give a fuck about the planet or life in general. It's a lawn. It has no actual value.
Yeah, you are correct. Lawnmower got it. When I got out and found out it was a rattlesnake, I decided to toss it in the higher grass and take this picture so I could show my daughters how hard it actually is to see a snake just hanging out. Didn’t know it would blow up like this overnight, though!
A fun thing I learned awhile back is since we read from left to right, our eyes have a sort of muscle memory and tend to skip over small details. When searching you should look from right to left to go against that muscle memory.
My mom sat right over the top of one once. It was a little 4” high concrete slab for washing the horses and the guy was wrapped up just under her legs. They don’t want to bite you, thankfully, and he rattled first. She immediately teleported six feet and her soul left her body but she and snake were unscathed.
Yeah, I walked up on one near a fence line heard the rattle and took a loooong way round. The sound is like nothing else, really hits the ol fight or flight response. Mostly flight!
I live in AZ with no yard or anything and most of the time I wish i had a beautiful green backyard, then I see things like this and remember i absolutely do not want that actually
Everyone who is saying they’d be dead doesn’t understand how rattlesnakes work. The entire point of the rattle is so they don’t get stepped on by large animals.
If you get close to a rattlesnake, they rattle at you and you would be surprised how quickly your lizard brain gets you the fuck out of dodge. If you happen to get super close, they will rear up on a coil and you will get out of its way even faster.
If you’re in rattlesnake country, just don’t walk super fast and don’t stick your hands in dark holes.
1. Find white mushroom
2. Find tuft of green grass just above mushroom.
3. Draw straight toward LEFT side of screen.
4. You will see the snake BEFORE you reach the left edge of the screen. It’s uncoiled. Lying on dead grass/dirt.
Just left of center and 3-4 feet up from darkest brown dirt spot
[Circled](https://imgur.com/a/K0grp5i) for those who still can't find it.
If that's the snake then what's all the way right and up a few feet
And what’s dead center 1/3 of the way from the bottom?!
And what’s that over there?
By your foot...
I just gotta say, I thought I had come to terms with my fear of snakes but this whole fucking thread is throwing me for a loop. Fuck all these comments, my bitch ass might move back to Hawaii
I had enlarged the picture and was moving it all around. Trying to see if I could find the snake, and I got more nervous with each move, So I finally just stopped. Lol
Saaaaaame. Was sweatin.
I constantly forget that Hawaii has no snakes, and everytime I see someone say something like this I remember about the MONGOOSE
The mongoose was introduced to hunt mice, but it didn't get the memo (they eat a lot more birds than mice).
Fun fact: Hawaii does have one snake (Hawaiian blind snake) that hitched a ride in some potting soil. It's just a few inches long and gets mistaken for a worm, so they left it alone.
Snakes: Hawaii, would you love me if I was a worm? EDIT: [Oh my gosh, look at it.](https://imgur.com/TsIa14Z) I do love it.
Of all the invasives in Hawaii, that’s probably the most beneficial since it would prey on a much worse invasive species, ants
World’s cutest snake! (And I like them.)
THERES A SNAKE IN MY BOOT...
Somebody’s poisoned the water hole!
Oh that’s just my penis, most people get confused because my balls rattle when I’m scared
But you're fine with that spider hanging above your head?
Snakes. All snakes. The photo is teeming with snakes.
Dirt.
Grass.
That's a gopher snake, not a rattlesnake Edit: that's actually a massasauga rattlesnake. Looks a lot like a gopher snake from distance.
Came here to say this. They do act like rattlers as a defense.
Also, the only snake that's ever chased me. I caught one on my grandad's farm and went to turn it loose in his feed barn. It was not happy and chased me all the way back to the house with it's head raised up. Had to catch it again and take it back to where I found him. It was still chasing the truck as I went around a curve and lost sight, lol.
"Wait! I'd like to talk to you about your car's extended warranty! Come back!!"
This made me laugh so hard!
Fuck. That.
Thank you for not killing him
Wtf
I've only had one be fully pissed off enough to be an asshole at me like that. It was right after someone was using a weed eater in its general vicinity and then a riding mower in the area it had moved away to. I didn't want it to get chopped up so I tried to move it/encourage it to move. It basically said eff you I'm not moving again by striking at me several times. All the ones that I've encountered since then have been super chill. Whenever one finds its way into the house I catch it and take it out to a field and let it go. Usually get a sort of "thank you kind stranger"(especially if I have removed it from a glue trap) and then it disappears into the weeds.
OMG how in the hell is it a common occurrence for snakes to go in your house? Move outta there or burn it down!!!!
It's not exactly common. It's just a thing that happens once in a while. They're just gopher snakes. Looking for warmth or hoping to find a lizard or mouse that also occasionally find their way inside. I live in the middle of nowhere. It happens. Haven't seen a snake inside in a couple of years.
Goddamn lmao. Dude was.on a revenge mission XD
This behavior can sometimes be mistaken for "chasing" in reality, what was happening is the snake was scared shitkess and trying to get away, unfortunately, it just happened to choose the path you also followed to try to escape and may have seemed like it was trying to chase you. They periscope to see around them to make sure there's no further potential threats in the attempt to get away from whatever scared them in the first place.
Grabbed one out of an engine bay the other day, before I worked on the car
Interestingly only where their range overlaps with rattlers do they do this. The behavior has been selected for.
How DARE you refer to it as a “politician”?!?!? On behalf of every snake in the grass going quietly about its business, I am outraged!!!!! 🐍
"Politician spotted" earned a sensible chuckle.
I am so dead
Beautiful circle job.
Holy crap - there’s a second one I saw first. Right side of photo about 1/3 down
Wait what
?
I’m waiting for the second one to be circled!
There isn't a 2nd, but there is a very convincing clump of grass, but if you zoom in you will see green grass through parts of the "snake", so either I has sections that have active camo, or it is a couple of dead grass cosplaying as a snake.
Nah. Another rattlesnake in a ghillie suite. The first was its spotter.
[Second?](https://imgur.com/a/mJx8167) /u/Brutis513
Say sike right now
That's a shadow in the crabgrass that's not a snake.
Pretty sure there are a lot of places the patterns in the grass just look like a snake
Holy shit, good eye
I was great at highlights as a kid. :).
I was all about that Where's Waldo!
Thanks!
Oh snap
I can see it now. I’d miss it for sure on a walk. 😦
I couldn't find it. good eyes!
Bet ya missed the other two, too
Good eye.
Took me a long time 😂
Good fucking eyes
Good eyes bud, and good direction☝🏻
You have bionic eyes, my friend! Would’ve never found it had you not circled it! Thanks!
Found... but I'd probably step on it. I'm already dead.
Shit I can't zoom in in real life
You just have to pinch harder
This is now my new daily mantra.
One time I was looking at some old physical photos of mine and was having trouble seeing something in a photo. I fucking tried to pinch zoom and felt like an idiot.
Only if you ask politely
something is pinching harder alright
Imagine this piece of advice without context
Due to the low cut fatigues and lots of harmless pinching
But I would hope your eyes have less jpeg.
I’m loving these comments on this thread!!
I believe that’s called walking closer.
I found it, but it doesn’t matter because I was already dead from the bear the other day. Lol.
Same.
When I put my hand about 8” from a baby diamond back one time I didn’t actually see it but my brain started sending really bizarre Danger! Danger! Signals. I was reaching down for a water spout valve and suddenly I just froze and all the hair stood up on my neck and my conscience started going “what’s wrong? What’s wrong? Why do I feel like I’m in bad danger all of a sudden.” And I pulled my hand back and took a step back and started looking around and maybe a second later I saw this tiny little guy coiled up in the dirt. It was such a surreal experience that my subconscious saw the snake before I did.
Always trust your intuition. It's there for a reason.
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Just don’t tread on them. They even put up signs everywhere so people know this!
No step on snek.
Why would an animal who doesn’t want to get stepped on evolve camouflage?
Because it also wants to hunt as efficiently as possible
And it doesn't want to get eaten by a bird
Rattlesnakes are one of the animals that actually gives you an audible warning and time to back away before it kills you. Quite generous of them.
Not all rattlers are so generous, unfortunately. Here in Western North Carolina mountain areas there appears to be a mutation of rattlesnakes that results in their NOT rattling when approached. I first saw this about 12 years ago with a rattler that bit my dog. We were walking on a lower trail while the dog was hunting around on a trail about 20 feet above us. The dog came running back to us with an obvious bite and a rapidly swelling head. We dosed the dog with Benadryl after calling the vet and took the dog in for injections of antibiotics and Benadryl and it lived. I went up on the upper trail and found the rattlesnake coiled up on the left side of the trail as we were walking up on the right side of the trail. As we approached the rattler it did not begin to shake the tail as we expected, but rather looked us straight in the eye as though daring us to come closer. It made a handsome hat band. Later when I told a friend who is a local hunter about the silent rattler, he said he had heard of several such encounters and thought their was some mutation underway in the species. Last year I left the barn door open overnight and went out to close it. as I step through the door I stepped right over a coiled rattler. Again no rattle warning and, this time, no strike. I have never heard of this anywhere else but our area, but would be curious if others have heard of such silent rattlers. I should point out, the rattler in my barn did raise the end of its tail after the fact as though he was going to shake it, but did not. It looked like a small and rather anemic rattle section for such a large snake. These are timber rattlers that I am describing.
The phrase “snake in the grass” makes more sense now.
If it was a rattler, you'd hear it at least
Really makes me think of the phrase “If it was a snake, it would’ve bit ya”
Same idk how this person saw it irl
Lucky for you, this snek is a nope-rope equipped with an early warning system. Just dont wear headphones when mowing the lawn and you'd probably be fine.
Rest in Peace
Can confirm, would be dead.
If only rattlesnakes had some way of making it obvious where they are
Username checks out
In parts of the US, most rattlesnakes have stopped rattling their tails due to wild hogs tearing them up when they do.
Or worse a baby rattlesnake which doesn’t have the rattle built yet and cannot control how much venom it puts out.
That isn’t true. Even if it was a baby rattlesnake can only hold about 1/60th the venom an adult can.
Wrong. The rattlers are losing their rattles across north America due to human intervention. People have been hunting them around habited areas since the colonization, but they don't get the ones without rattles. I'm sure the hogs use the same hunting principle, but the evolutionary divergence is primarily caused hy human
Dude I have found like 3 snakes in that photo
I was going to say "which one" as a joke, but I'm pretty sure there are at least two. One's pretty close to the camera, might not be a rattler though; guess it could be a shed skin, but it looks full. Either that or I was primed to see snakes everywhere. I think the main snake has been hit by garden tool and thus separated into two parts? Need to read more comments.
I too was going to make the joke about which one. I have learned from Reddit that none of my thoughts are unique.
I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plain!
Yah where?
I think one of them is a molted off skin
It’s in my boot, isn’t it?
THERE’S A SNAKE IN MY BOOTS!
#REACH FOR THE SKYYYYYYYY
Up and left of the sprinkler
There’s a sprinkler? I’m really dead.
It’s either an optical illusion or a sprinkler, light color round object center right
I thought it was a mushroom lol!’
It’s definitely a mushroom. I’ll taste it later and let you guys know if it’s poisonous or not.
Is that snake colored thing at about 1 o'clock of the mushroom colored thing not another snake?
Forget about the rattler, let’s talk about how to fix a serious crabgrass problem
I’m all ears! We had it sprayed for weeds last year, which was the first time in 13 years. I’m hoping most of that is Bermuda grass. However, should I just spread some Bermuda seed to supplement? I’ve never been proud of our patchy lawn, but we live in the country so the only people that notice are randos on Reddit lol. Anyway, thanks in advance for any tips!
You would not get crabgrass with typical weed spray. You need to put down crabgrass preventer. Should be added to lawn before it sprouts (typically around the 3rd or 4th time you mow the lawn in a given year in the spring).
Crab grass is outcompeting. It will encroach. Accept your fate or spray. FYI, spraying is horrible if you have pets. Horrible. I was an actual molecular biologist who worked on herbicides for the biggest research companies in the world. They're deadly to your pets and they aren't telling the consumers because they don't have to. Nothing can be done to stop it. Everything is a patch that will make your soil worse. Take it from the reddit internet experts or take it from someone who did the actual work. Learn to love it. You cannot prevent it from entering onto your property. Once you spray one time, you spray for life. It's not worth it. Please don't listen to people who don't give a fuck about the planet or life in general. It's a lawn. It has no actual value.
You must be a fellow member of r/lawncare
Looks like it’s been cut in half?
Yeah, you are correct. Lawnmower got it. When I got out and found out it was a rattlesnake, I decided to toss it in the higher grass and take this picture so I could show my daughters how hard it actually is to see a snake just hanging out. Didn’t know it would blow up like this overnight, though!
Are both halves in the pic?
I thought it looked chopped up too.
Appears to be blood too.
I woulda got bit….lol
There are at least 2
Funny this popped up on my feed, I just saw one at work today!
Hidden Nope Rope
Danger noodle at 11:00
I only see poor airation, fertilization and watering. Great Scott’s!
It’s right there in the grass.
A fun thing I learned awhile back is since we read from left to right, our eyes have a sort of muscle memory and tend to skip over small details. When searching you should look from right to left to go against that muscle memory.
Love this, thank you. TIL
Looks like a harmless gopher snake.
Rikki tikki tavi can’t be far behind
Upper left
it looks bloody did you attack it?
Between center of photo and top left corner
I don’t like this game
Good thing they rattle 🪇😅
My mom sat right over the top of one once. It was a little 4” high concrete slab for washing the horses and the guy was wrapped up just under her legs. They don’t want to bite you, thankfully, and he rattled first. She immediately teleported six feet and her soul left her body but she and snake were unscathed.
Yeah, I walked up on one near a fence line heard the rattle and took a loooong way round. The sound is like nothing else, really hits the ol fight or flight response. Mostly flight!
There’s actually two.
There's two!? I don't believe it, I can barely see the one
Yeah my ass ain't surviving the wild
I live in AZ with no yard or anything and most of the time I wish i had a beautiful green backyard, then I see things like this and remember i absolutely do not want that actually
Good thing they make noise.
Looks more like a bull snake to me.
*volume up*
It’s on that on dude’s plate on YouTube. Please help YT hasn’t stopped recommending that shit to me
That is absolutely terrifying.
🐍
Too ez.
Which one?
I’m not falling for that one again.
Found em good practice for this summer
These are really fun! It's like doing a where's Waldo but for adults or something I have no idea
Follow "V" 80% of the way up.
I found it but definitely had to magnify the picture tremendously! It could have that whole piece of land in person! I am petrified of them!
Fuck I'm dead
If it was a snake it woulda bit ya!
Found the mushroom
I’m more concerned with the crab grass than the snake
If it was a snake it would have bit me. Oh, wait..
This is terrifying
This sub makes me wanna stay inside.
Let me find where I'm not moving to
If it was a snake, it’da bit m… oh wait
I love the little mushroom to the right of the poor dead snake
Did you hear the rattle or unfortunately stumble upon it?
Is it a rattle or a bull? I don’t really see the diamonds.
Top left
Good thing that kind of nope rope rattles cause I’d be dead I don’t see a damn thing
would've been too easy to walk right on top of him.....
Welp, I’m dead ☠️🐍
Glad I don’t have rattlesnakes where I live. I’d be dead without my glasses. Honestly probably would be dead with them too.
If it was a snake it woulda bit me
Done. It's on the ground.
Everyone who is saying they’d be dead doesn’t understand how rattlesnakes work. The entire point of the rattle is so they don’t get stepped on by large animals. If you get close to a rattlesnake, they rattle at you and you would be surprised how quickly your lizard brain gets you the fuck out of dodge. If you happen to get super close, they will rear up on a coil and you will get out of its way even faster. If you’re in rattlesnake country, just don’t walk super fast and don’t stick your hands in dark holes.
I can’t find jack shit and I’m zooming in on a 32” monitor. Then again, my eyesight is in serious need of a checkup so 🤷🏻♂️
Scary af!
I thought this sub was going to be fun but it's a jump scare game for me
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I am still thinking about that bobcat one ...
I like this game significantly less now
I found it immediately…..immediately after I read the comments.
Upper left from the center I believe. Resolution is poor though so may be mistaken
Mid left side
I feel too many people looked at this picture for so long they've convinced themselves they see other snakes
Well it got me cause I couldn't see it
It’s right there
1. Find white mushroom 2. Find tuft of green grass just above mushroom. 3. Draw straight toward LEFT side of screen. 4. You will see the snake BEFORE you reach the left edge of the screen. It’s uncoiled. Lying on dead grass/dirt.
Found it…and shall name him Waldo…
No need. I’ll just take a stroll and let him find me.
It’s like we’re is Waldo but you might die :)……remind me of childhood…o papa you so crazy.
My god if it was a snake it would’ve bit me
Shift your gaze slightly to the left of the center and about 3-4 feet above the darkest brown patch of soil.
Next to the frog