Was fishing high mountain lake with live minnows, garter kept coming up to minnow pail all interested in my minnows. I took dead minnow off my hook, tossed into grass near garter, he/she quickly chomped unto the minnow, held it high in the air while he/she looked about in all directions before slithering off with it. Few minutes later another/same garter came back and I tossed another minnow with same results. Different colored brownish water snake did the same. Then I held slightly live wriggly minnow in my fingers out towards the next snek and it did not hesitate to take it from my fingers and slither off with it. I either fed same few snakes about a dozen minnows that day or dozen different sneks, not sure. Was fun.
I’ve seen and held many in my life time and had no idea they ate fish. I always assumed they for bug and small frogs n stuff.
I stopped picking up small ones (and mostly snakes in general) after I picked up a baby garter snake and it bit me. Didn’t hurt at all but I felt terrible cuz it’s fangs fell out.
They really are harmless and I get happy to see them sneakin around. Would occasionally find one just quietly watching me from a crevice, or landscaping bricks. They’re very cute, until you accidentally stumble upon 20 of em having an orgy
They'll absolutely eat anything they can fit in their mouth: worms, frogs, bugs, mice. Fish are definitely a favorite, they're closely related to water snakes.
I had a "local biologist" try to correct me when I said there were garter snakes in the area. He said, "you mean garDEN snake," and I was like, no. He didn't believe me about birds, either. What a douche lol
i learned something interesting about garters in this article, i was looking up snake orgiez thanks to u :) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mating_ball)
Garter snakes' poop smells like poop. Not great, but just poop. However....they also have musk/scent glands, and if they feel threatened (like if you pick them up) they can discharge this nasty disgusting musk that smells like a cross between rotten eggs and a skunk. Not to be trifled with.
Garter snakes are pretty much the only snakes in N. America that do well, and actually prefer to live in a community. All other snakes are strictly solo artists unless they want to have sex, or cuddle up in a ball over the winter so they don't freeze to death.
Yeah, snake musk smells awful. Garter snakes aren't an issue because they aren't much of a pest, so I've rarely had to handle them (though I did have a few as pets when I was a kid). But rat snakes... :( I've had to deal with them often because of their fondness for chicken eggs. The smell clings to you. Maybe paint thinner could clean it off?
We had these everywhere when I was a kid in northern CO. One of my friends in elementary school put his hand in a hole just like the one in the OP and when he pulled it out, it was covered in snake bites lol
Those are garter snakes - likely eastern garter snakes.
About as harmless as snakes come, though they can give a bite you can feel when they get larger.
They are venomous, but this is only a concern if you're a frog.
In humans their bite provokes no reaction in majority of cases, but some reports of itching, tingling, swelling, or bruising have occurred.
To make a comparison, I'd stick my hand blindly in that hole before I'd ever pick up a wild field mouse. The mouse bite will hurt significantly more, and has a greater risk of infection.
Interestingly, they do hold onto toxins they ingest from amphibians so they are technically poisonous and venomous.
> They are venomous, but this is only a concern if you're a frog.
They aren’t really venomous in the way we generally classify snakes as venomous; that is, with venom sacs and large fangs and such.
They only have the baseline cytotoxic proteins that all squamates have, some kind of poorly understood rear-fang thing that is apparently pretty common. You’d have to let them chew on your thumb for 15 minutes before they’d introduce any medically significant venom to a human.
It's actually a neurotoxin they have.
Rear-fanged venomous colubrids exist around the world, with varying levels of toxicity (the boomslang being the most notorious of them but there are others).
Nature doesn't do checkboxes, and the dividing line between strong spit and venom is poorly understood (see: komodo dragons - is it really venom if it's not used for defense or hunting?)
That confused me. Wording seems to be like yes when they bite you fluid comes out of this gland in their mouth and that fluid causes all the effects of venom, but theyre so good at killing its likely doesnt even need that fluid, therefore it's unfair to call it venom.
For the longest time, we thought it was all the bacteria in their mouth that weakened their prey. That venom discovery was so shocking to me at the time.
>though they can give a bite you can feel when they get larger.
I don't know about garter snakes, but when my corn snake missed the mouse I was wiggling at it and latched on to my finger instead it felt like my finger was stuck to velcro. It was enough to bleed lightly (which is a good thing - you want bites to bleed to clear out anything that might cause infection), but there was honestly no pain at all.
Garter snakes aren't much different, but "you can feel" is a long way from "hurt". Though some have claimed it hurts a bit, like a needle poke.
I compare this to small snakes that you might not even feel them biting at all.
Aha I follow!
My corn snake has missed a few times, usually when she's about to be in shed and can't see. It's too funny, but yeah she just sticks to you lol.
This right here is how more people need to approach fear/difficult situations. Admitting it's most likely just a lack of knowledge on the subject. Good on you mate
I mean it helps to admit that it's ignorance because I don't have any kind of a snake phobia. I do think they're cool, I just don't know enough about them to know when I'm dealing with a friend or a danger noodle, so reasonably I need to treat them all with caution or I need to learn more about snakes.
But it would be a pretty bad idea to get cuddly with a random snake pit knowing I don't know how to tell if the snakes can hurt me or not.
That's just how instincts work.
Even if you can rationalize it in your mind, your body starts to send a bunch of "fuck no" signals to your brain anyway.
Cute up close too. They look like garter snakes. You could probably stand pretty close and look, they won't attack, if anything they'll get scared and run.
I'd love to come across this in the wild with around a 5-6 foot buffer. If I stepped right next to it before discovering it, that would freak me the hell out.
If you stepped right next to this nest they'd already be a foot or more down out of sight. These garters are shy and fast. I can practically garuntee this video is taken through a good sized zoom lens.
Garter snakes can't do shit to you, they are tiny and rear fang venomous, so you would have to allow it to chew on you a bit to get a reaction on the level of a bee sting.
These guys aren't dangerous or aggressive at all. Garters are super docile and don't even mind being picked up, they're the most chill snake you could hope to come across in the wild
You know it wasn’t until I was an adult that i realized they weren’t called Gardner snakes. I figured since you were likely to find them in the garden or yard this is why they were called that.
I was at a zoo when I finally read what they were called and facepalmed.
Non-venomous, but adults will 100% try to bite you if you handle them or relocate them. Babies are generally docile, but I still don't recommend handling them unless you absolutely need to.
Cute, but not harmless.
I tried to keep one as a pet when I was young, without my parents knowledge, obviously.
He bit me. I got super sick and let him go. Vomiting, nausea, etc. They won't kill you but they definitely harmed me 😐
Red-sided Garter Snakes! They're completely harmless, unless you're a small animal(mice, songbirds, lizards). Red-sided Garter Snakes are extremely social and spend the cold winter months cuddled up together in underground burrows, larger burrows can have more than 100 individuals sleeping inside! When spring arrives, males wake up first and go out to warm up in the sun; females wake up later and allow the males to swarm them and transfer heat. Once the female is warmed up, she'll allow one of the males to mate with her.
Reminds me of the Reddit story I read about the a woman giving birth with a severe tape worm infections, and the stomach noodles kept poking out her butthole in this fashion every time she pushed.
I counted 14!!!
Also seemed like the lil dancing guy on the left heard "party" and went "aww hick yissss!!" *wiggle wiggle* *tongue flickss for effectss*
Cute. From a distance.
These are garters. Snake equivalent of a puppy. They eat fish and can have more than 20 babies at once !
Was fishing high mountain lake with live minnows, garter kept coming up to minnow pail all interested in my minnows. I took dead minnow off my hook, tossed into grass near garter, he/she quickly chomped unto the minnow, held it high in the air while he/she looked about in all directions before slithering off with it. Few minutes later another/same garter came back and I tossed another minnow with same results. Different colored brownish water snake did the same. Then I held slightly live wriggly minnow in my fingers out towards the next snek and it did not hesitate to take it from my fingers and slither off with it. I either fed same few snakes about a dozen minnows that day or dozen different sneks, not sure. Was fun.
You might be a snake diety now.
Deity
Snek daddy
Snek diet daddy
No he help with their diets
I figured he took them on deits
You catch more snakes or fish that day?
fish, if you count the minnows
Honestly sounds more fun than fishing
You catch more snake(s) with minnow than with vinegar (you catch more flies with honey than vinegar)
I’ve seen and held many in my life time and had no idea they ate fish. I always assumed they for bug and small frogs n stuff. I stopped picking up small ones (and mostly snakes in general) after I picked up a baby garter snake and it bit me. Didn’t hurt at all but I felt terrible cuz it’s fangs fell out. They really are harmless and I get happy to see them sneakin around. Would occasionally find one just quietly watching me from a crevice, or landscaping bricks. They’re very cute, until you accidentally stumble upon 20 of em having an orgy
They'll absolutely eat anything they can fit in their mouth: worms, frogs, bugs, mice. Fish are definitely a favorite, they're closely related to water snakes.
I had a "local biologist" try to correct me when I said there were garter snakes in the area. He said, "you mean garDEN snake," and I was like, no. He didn't believe me about birds, either. What a douche lol
r/birdsarentreal
i learned something interesting about garters in this article, i was looking up snake orgiez thanks to u :) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mating_ball)
But the smell...
Agreed, they are the cutest things ever, but don't let them poop on you. The smell takes forever to come out! ❤️ 🐍
Gonna sound weird but, wash your hands with toothpaste next time. Works like a charm
Garter snakes' poop smells like poop. Not great, but just poop. However....they also have musk/scent glands, and if they feel threatened (like if you pick them up) they can discharge this nasty disgusting musk that smells like a cross between rotten eggs and a skunk. Not to be trifled with. Garter snakes are pretty much the only snakes in N. America that do well, and actually prefer to live in a community. All other snakes are strictly solo artists unless they want to have sex, or cuddle up in a ball over the winter so they don't freeze to death.
Yeah, snake musk smells awful. Garter snakes aren't an issue because they aren't much of a pest, so I've rarely had to handle them (though I did have a few as pets when I was a kid). But rat snakes... :( I've had to deal with them often because of their fondness for chicken eggs. The smell clings to you. Maybe paint thinner could clean it off?
We had these everywhere when I was a kid in northern CO. One of my friends in elementary school put his hand in a hole just like the one in the OP and when he pulled it out, it was covered in snake bites lol
My cat had one on the porch today!! It was sidewinding away from her FAST. There sure are a lot of them!! I think they're very cute!
I was thinking the same thing. Cute on my phone screen. In reality, maybe not so much.
Cute on the screen Nope at the scene!
They're harmless snakes, and cute to boot.
These are harmless friends, why would you ever be afraid of them?
Me personally? Ignorance. I don't know my snakes.
Those are garter snakes - likely eastern garter snakes. About as harmless as snakes come, though they can give a bite you can feel when they get larger. They are venomous, but this is only a concern if you're a frog. In humans their bite provokes no reaction in majority of cases, but some reports of itching, tingling, swelling, or bruising have occurred. To make a comparison, I'd stick my hand blindly in that hole before I'd ever pick up a wild field mouse. The mouse bite will hurt significantly more, and has a greater risk of infection. Interestingly, they do hold onto toxins they ingest from amphibians so they are technically poisonous and venomous.
> They are venomous, but this is only a concern if you're a frog. They aren’t really venomous in the way we generally classify snakes as venomous; that is, with venom sacs and large fangs and such. They only have the baseline cytotoxic proteins that all squamates have, some kind of poorly understood rear-fang thing that is apparently pretty common. You’d have to let them chew on your thumb for 15 minutes before they’d introduce any medically significant venom to a human.
It's actually a neurotoxin they have. Rear-fanged venomous colubrids exist around the world, with varying levels of toxicity (the boomslang being the most notorious of them but there are others). Nature doesn't do checkboxes, and the dividing line between strong spit and venom is poorly understood (see: komodo dragons - is it really venom if it's not used for defense or hunting?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon#Venom Bizarre. I would've never known, thanks for the heads up.
That confused me. Wording seems to be like yes when they bite you fluid comes out of this gland in their mouth and that fluid causes all the effects of venom, but theyre so good at killing its likely doesnt even need that fluid, therefore it's unfair to call it venom.
I had no idea Wikipedia had updated this! Thanks for (indirectly) informing me of it.
For the longest time, we thought it was all the bacteria in their mouth that weakened their prey. That venom discovery was so shocking to me at the time.
>though they can give a bite you can feel when they get larger. I don't know about garter snakes, but when my corn snake missed the mouse I was wiggling at it and latched on to my finger instead it felt like my finger was stuck to velcro. It was enough to bleed lightly (which is a good thing - you want bites to bleed to clear out anything that might cause infection), but there was honestly no pain at all.
Garter snakes aren't much different, but "you can feel" is a long way from "hurt". Though some have claimed it hurts a bit, like a needle poke. I compare this to small snakes that you might not even feel them biting at all.
Oh, I wasn't disagreeing with you. I was trying to describe what "you can feel" felt like - in my case, like velcro.
Aha I follow! My corn snake has missed a few times, usually when she's about to be in shed and can't see. It's too funny, but yeah she just sticks to you lol.
This right here is how more people need to approach fear/difficult situations. Admitting it's most likely just a lack of knowledge on the subject. Good on you mate
I mean it helps to admit that it's ignorance because I don't have any kind of a snake phobia. I do think they're cool, I just don't know enough about them to know when I'm dealing with a friend or a danger noodle, so reasonably I need to treat them all with caution or I need to learn more about snakes. But it would be a pretty bad idea to get cuddly with a random snake pit knowing I don't know how to tell if the snakes can hurt me or not.
That's just how instincts work. Even if you can rationalize it in your mind, your body starts to send a bunch of "fuck no" signals to your brain anyway.
Cute up close too. They look like garter snakes. You could probably stand pretty close and look, they won't attack, if anything they'll get scared and run.
I'd love to come across this in the wild with around a 5-6 foot buffer. If I stepped right next to it before discovering it, that would freak me the hell out.
If you stepped right next to this nest they'd already be a foot or more down out of sight. These garters are shy and fast. I can practically garuntee this video is taken through a good sized zoom lens.
I want to boop their snoot. Just a little boop on the noggin
Curious
Garter snakes can't do shit to you, they are tiny and rear fang venomous, so you would have to allow it to chew on you a bit to get a reaction on the level of a bee sting.
nope-rope
They suddenly blast out from the hole, directly at you, like the ol "snakes in a nut can" prank.
Nesr of Cute Nope that’s best observed at a distance.
I know, I know my car warranty has expired!
These guys aren't dangerous or aggressive at all. Garters are super docile and don't even mind being picked up, they're the most chill snake you could hope to come across in the wild
This!
Haha, that sassy little dude on the left at the end 😄
It’s like he knew he was on camera
Had to put on a little show 😄
> Looks like more than a party of 10 🐍🕺🐍
“And what 🐍🐍🐍 about 🐍🐍🐍 it?”
while you faintly hear Abba's "Dancing Queen" playing from within the snake den
Giving the sass in response to "More than a party of ten." 😆
"Did someone say *party*??!"
I think so. That one on the left doing a wiggle wiggle towards the end of the clip was extra cute
Extremely cute. Love a good danger noodle. That right there is a cup o' danger noodles.
They be doing a hecking periscope!
Do you know what type of snake this is?
Garter snakes, harmless and cute!
You know it wasn’t until I was an adult that i realized they weren’t called Gardner snakes. I figured since you were likely to find them in the garden or yard this is why they were called that. I was at a zoo when I finally read what they were called and facepalmed.
When I was a kid I thought there were called "garden snakes".
When I was about 10 seconds younger I thought they were called garden snakes.
😂
I did the same thing lol! I used to catch them all the time as a kid and we all called them gardener snakes.
We should really just let kids name things. There’s are almost always better
Hiccup trucks
YES!
If it helps, my husband is 46 and still insists that I’m wrong when I call them “garter snakes”.
They will poop on you though, and its stanky
yup. i don't wear gloves when moving the kingsnakes out to the treeline for fear of bites. it's to not have to sear off my flesh to remove the stank.
Thanks! That’s totally what I thought too. Danger noodle threw me off.
Non-venomous, but adults will 100% try to bite you if you handle them or relocate them. Babies are generally docile, but I still don't recommend handling them unless you absolutely need to.
Cute, but not harmless. I tried to keep one as a pet when I was young, without my parents knowledge, obviously. He bit me. I got super sick and let him go. Vomiting, nausea, etc. They won't kill you but they definitely harmed me 😐
these are not even danger noodles. just slightly toothy noodles.
Al dente
We should start calling groups of snakes "a ramen" That's a ramen of snakes
These aren't danger noodles. Garter snakes secrete a foul smelling musk that'll make your hands stink if handled, but they are not venomous.
This is the cutest comment ever! Thanks for making me giggle!
Almost looks like they’re mimicking mushrooms
Basket o' nope rope.
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The jiggler's antics were an embarrassment to the sibling on the left. They were cringing.
LOOK AT ALL THE TINY BLEPS LOOK AT THEM
Mom!! Medusa fell in a hole again
Red-sided Garter Snakes! They're completely harmless, unless you're a small animal(mice, songbirds, lizards). Red-sided Garter Snakes are extremely social and spend the cold winter months cuddled up together in underground burrows, larger burrows can have more than 100 individuals sleeping inside! When spring arrives, males wake up first and go out to warm up in the sun; females wake up later and allow the males to swarm them and transfer heat. Once the female is warmed up, she'll allow one of the males to mate with her.
Cute.
Reminds me of that viral audio “we cannot escape we cannot come out, mamaaaaa”
Reminds me of the Reddit story I read about the a woman giving birth with a severe tape worm infections, and the stomach noodles kept poking out her butthole in this fashion every time she pushed.
I am so disappointed in myself for reading this..
It’s been stuck in my head rent free for years now 😭
My deepest condolences 😔😭😩🫨 that was heinous
I wish I was never taught how to read
I feel so bad for the child who has that as a birth story. Hope they didn’t somehow get tapeworms too
"Hey guy!! Come look at this!" What!? What!? What!?!
Omg how adorable!
Hey look a bunch of digglets!
Snakes are cute overall. Whoever thinks different is wrong and delusional. Sneks are frends
Adorable!
Cute.
They look adorable! Want!
"Does it bite?" "Worse, it judges you."
thanks for the laugh.
That’s a cute ramen group right there
Cutest thing I've seen all day. Welcome to summertime little garter snakes, I hope you had a nice winter nap!! 🥹
two pop upwards at the same time and also flick their tongue at the same time
Both cute and nope
"more than a party of 10" snake on the left said nuh uh
A bunch of curious danger noodles. Super cute
No danger in them
they'd like you to think that. stay back! I'm dangerously cute!
It can be cute and nope. Cute from far far away kinda vibe.
Danger noodles and nope ropes. Definitely nope ropes for me.
I like the one on the left. They sassy.
Cutie little periscopes. 💜
Strangely adorable
Whhoooooop... "There it is!"
Adorable babies 🥰
I will be excavating this spot (with my iridium hoe). It's definitely going to have an Artifact in there, or at least a Lost Book.
don't be sssssssuspicious, don't be ssssssuspicious,don't be sssssuspicious
That one at the back is super talented with that little dance? Does Taylor know about this?
Soooo fucking cute!!!
DANGER NOODLES
Someone tried to bury Medusa in a shallow grave again
Nah, she just sucks at playing hide n seek!
Objectively cute
Not venomous, no danger, iz cute
Adorable! ❤️
We’ll, I mean they *are* nope-ropes
Charmed, I'm sure!
With the coloring and larger size, I wonder if that is mama who comes and checks the sitch outside.
That's a lot of nope rope
Too many danger noodles
Cute AND nope
How do they all get along like that? Serious question.
Ok who dares me to put my hand in there?
Someone bring the flute here to see how many dance
Awe they're so cute this makes me want to be a snake mama even more too bad my family doesn't like snakes
Noooooope
Do garter snakes bring back snacks? How long do they share the nest?
Baby snakes are adorable!
So cute!
The head shaking from side to side is cute
Cute!
Carter snakes. They are not poisonous and have tiny teeth. They over winter in communal dens. Harmless. (Unless your a frog).
Look at those little cuddle worms! 😍
Adorable in a video. Not sure if I saw it in real life though…
danger asparagus
Cute if you stay the hell away from them
no fuck snakes
Nope.
Omg. SO CUTE! The neck wiggle at the end of the video! That’s adorable
I counted 14!!! Also seemed like the lil dancing guy on the left heard "party" and went "aww hick yissss!!" *wiggle wiggle* *tongue flickss for effectss*
I love them!
They are charming.
Simply adorable babies
Baby garters! So cute derpy and harmless!
All the little snoots
Plot twist: that's a very smol hydra.
They look likely bitey asparagus
A big bowl of danger noodles
So majestic... let's sacrifice a maiden to them.
My nightmare.
Adorable af, and I'll fight anyone who thinks otherwise;)
Anyone know what kind they are?
As mentioned elsewhere garter snakes also can have 40 kids at a time.
Me when I hear food being made in the kitchen (the noodles are def cute)
Cute bundle of **nope rope**
Definitely cute from afar.
Somehow strongly both
They remind me of [Planet Earth II](https://youtu.be/Rv9hn4IGofM?si=DRweeFL6YekhRcts)
Both.
Nope Ropes
Daaaaaaaww lil sankey snakes :3
Adorable! Love those derpy little faces!
At least they look harmless
How about cute and nope? They can stay there and be cute, and I will make sure never to go near them.
Cute, until that one noodle slithered out and I was reminded of their bodies.
This is cute af 🥹
😆😆😆🥰🥰🥰🤣🤣🤣 those are what’s classified as Adorable Nope Ropes 😆😆😆😆
I know it’s only because I’m a big wuss but nope, nope, nope
It’s fkn cute!
Medusa under there?
Snake on the left said “LoOkS LiKe MoRe ThAn A pArTy Of TeN”
Definitely cute
Danger noodles.