Venomous Snakes of Udon Thani

beer monkey, the Ovophis monticola at Doi Inthanon was caught without any snake catching equipment. The back of a large knife was used to pin the head.

Ramphotyphlops braminus known as a Common Blind Snake is fossorial, living under the ground or inside rotting logs. It eats ant and termite larvae. Something else of note, it is parthenogenic and there are only females in Thailand. The slow worm is a lizard, Anguis fragilis, which forages on the ground and eats invertebrates (one I kept as a child loved to eat earthworms).

not a snake but a



ho is this same one now

Who's his skinny mate next to him..? and why the big guy only got 5 legs..

looks like one of those things they deep fry and sell under the escalators at Big C................................

The rainy season has just hit us, which will be accompanied by an increase of snake activity. This is also the time that most snakes hatch/are born. Keep in mind, baby venomous snakes are just as dangerous as the adults and come out of the egg/the mother with fully loaded venom glands.

I just caught a young non-venomous snake this morning just outside the house.

Ok thanks to Micheal C's comprehensive and very informative listing of venomous snakes that reside in Udon I am pretty sure this one is not venomous but for the life of me can't find out what it was. I searched after the event, at least two years ago, on various websites to identify it but no luck.
The description is vague but its the best I got. It was wrapped around a piece of bamboo used for hanging wet clothes on, seemed to be basking in the early morning sunlight. At least 2m long possibly more and looked a silver colour. I had just walked out the back door and nearly ended up nose to nose with it! It moved a hell of a lot quicker than me, fortunately in the opposite direction.
Just wondered if our resident snake expert could shine any light on what it possibly was.

If it was 2m, silver in colour and hanging off the ground on bamboo set up to hang clothes, I can assure you that it is non-venomous. Sorry, but there was not enough of a description to give an identification of exactly what species it is.

Michael C wrote:The rainy season has just hit us, which will be accompanied by an increase of snake activity. This is also the time that most snakes hatch/are born. Keep in mind, baby venomous snakes are just as dangerous as the adults and come out of the egg/the mother with fully loaded venom glands.

I just caught a young non-venomous snake this morning just outside the house.

Our dog woke me up last night with her constant barking. Figured she must have a scorpion or snake cornered and, sure enough, it was a small snake about 40 cm long with sharp yellow and black stripes. Chased the dog away but not before she bit the snake on its back. Snake lay still for a while and thought it was dead but guess it was playing possum because it came around after I placed it inside a jar. Checked and watched the dog for a bit but didn't appear that she got bit so guessing snake must be non-poisonous. Looked through Michael C's pictures and some others on the internet. Closest that I could ID was:

Bungarus fasciatus (Banded Krait), Thai: (ngu sam laem, ngu kan plong)
or
Lycodon laoensis (Laotian Wolf Snake), Thai: (ngu plong chanuan lao, ngu kan plong).

The Laotian Wolf Snake seems to fit the bill and is non-poisonous. What do you think, Michael C?

Here's a couple of pics of it:



Released the snake in the woods across from us and will lock up the pooches at night until rainy season is over.

One of the best threads I have read here -ever. I have lived out in the Jungle for more than seven years now - the western outskirts of Suwankuha in Non Bua Lom Phu Province - and have had to kill several snakes. The most being the Red Necked Keelback.

At the time I did not know its name or its venomous status. Today I do and for that I say many THANKs Michael!! The Cobras that I offed were easily identifyable. I have searched the web specifically looking for the identification of the Red Necked Keelback but was not able to match the dead carcus up to any pictures until I saw yours.

I too was operating under the "local" knowledge of my Thai wife - like others have posted - everything is deadly in her eyes. Now I know. I have saved the pictures to my PC and will print. We have at least one villager die each year from a snake bite. The last one said it was too small to hurt him - two days later he is dead!!

Dave

Ere whats this one, the daft bats mum caught this blighter...within 30 mins on the bbq

Is there a thread on venomous insects, spiders, centipedes, and scorpions, or links on the subjects?
Thanks

Polehawk, looking at my book of snakes what you have there is a Laotian Wolf Snake, a non poisonous species & common throughout Thailand.
The body shape is wrong for a Banded Krait which is triangular.

Geordie, thanks for that. Agrees with link that I was looking at then:

http://www.siam-info.de/english/snakes_ ... onous.html

Link also shows spiders, centipedes and scorpions for those interested. Michael C will have to identify Fuzzychunk's snake although photo not very clear. Another ratsnake?

a ratsnake ?