Pilot snake

Lane describes the Pilot snake. We took a short trip and found a LONG snake!!!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• pantherophis
• emoryi
• elephe
• monster
• black
• rat
• snake
• reptile
• field
• herping
• herpetology
• serpent
• Kansas
• herp
• heads

[edgirallenjoe29]

Unless the changed it, the Black Rat Snake is Elaphe Obsoleta Obsoleta

[AtroxCustomz]

Yeah they changed it this year.

[Snakeman418]

Sooooooooo, Pilot snake is another name for black rat? That was one huge ratsnake though. Great find.

[AtroxCustomz]

Yeah man. The old timey name was "Pilot snake" because the settlers would see the black rat snakes and know to start watching for rattlers, coming out of or going into the dens. We like the history of the names and myths that go with them as much as the science... Thanx for watching!!!

[despeleta]

what an awesome snake ! way to reseat that rock, lane! plant and all...that's the way to do it.

great vid

[AtroxCustomz]

Thanx

[Snakeman418]

Thanks ATROXCUSTOMZ for the pilot snake info and also for replying about the huge northern watersnake. Keep up with the snake catching and good luck, Later.

[AtroxCustomz]

Thank you

[AtroxCustomz]

Saturday we went to our favorite spot to tape the Osage Copperhead and found very little of anything!

[smetlogik]

man, that thing was a beast! funny, we went out today, flipped tons of stuff - nothing but lizards, all the snakes we found we out on the move.

[CaterpillarGiraffe]

Nice find, thanks for entering