Is the black snake poisonous?

Black snakes are larger snakes of the genus Zaoceridae, also known as black snakes and black wind snakes. They usually live in hilly areas and are narrow-eating snakes, mainly feeding on frogs, lizards, fish, rats, and so on. Because of their fast growth, strong adaptability, high disease resistance, best-selling market and suitable for artificial breeding, let's take a look at whether the black snakes are poisonous.

Is the black snake poisonous?

The black snake is not poisonous. The black snake is a large non-venomous snake with a total length of more than 2.5m. It lives in the middle and low mountains below 1600 meters above sea level. It is often found near farmland and river ditches, and sometimes found in villages. It is quick, responsive, docile and usually does not bite. Due to habitat destruction and a large number of human hunting, the number of people living in the wild has greatly reduced and should be protected.

What kind of food does the black snake eat?

Black snakes mainly live in hilly areas, narrow-eating snakes, feeding on frogs (staple food), lizards, fish, rats, etc., have the habit of chasing and preying, mainly to hunt live food. Black snakes are usually not interested in dead animals, but they also eat partial death food when food is scarce, must be freshly dead, and are not interested in spoiled things at all. Black snakes can swallow small animals that are several times larger than their heads, such as big toads, but the swallowing speed slows down obviously, sometimes as long as 15-25 minutes, and the food intake is not very large. it is rare to swallow several frogs at a time, and the digestive ability is very strong. It takes 4 to 6 days to feed.

Common species of Zaocys dhumnades

1. Common black snakes: common black snakes are large non-venomous snakes of the genus Zaoceridae, with a total length of more than 2 meters, with a flat and round head, no obvious boundary between head and neck, wide nasal scales, large forehead scales, large front and back frontal scales, wide eye scales, oval nostrils, 16-inch body scales, 186-square abdominal scales, tapering tail, grayish brown body, dark brown edges of each scale. Distributed in East China, South China, Southwest and Hunan, Hubei, Shanxi, Hebei and other places.

2. Black net black snakes: black net snakes are large non-venomous snakes of the genus Zaoceridae, with a total length of 2.5m, with a yellow longitudinal pattern in the middle of the back and two black longitudinal lines on each side, disappearing at the back of the body. It lives in the middle and low mountains below 1600 meters above sea level, often near farmland and river ditches, distributed in India, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Yunnan of the Chinese mainland.

3. Black-line black snakes: black-line black snakes are large non-venomous snakes of the genus Zaoceridae, with a body length of 120cm to 200cm, male and female size, yellowish green on the back of the head, two black lines on each side, and the larvae run through the whole body. with the increase of age, the front of the body gradually disappeared, the ventral side was light yellow, and the black longitudinal lines on both sides were mainly distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan, Xizang, Guizhou and some Southeast Asian countries in China.