Does the snake bite?

Black snakes are large snakes of the genus Zaoceridae, with an adult length of more than 2.5 meters, green brown or brown and brown on the back, with a yellow longitudinal pattern in the middle of the back and two black longitudinal lines on each side of the body. It is widely distributed in our country. It usually feeds on frogs, lizards, fish, rats and so on. Let's take a look at whether black snakes can bite people.

Can black snakes bite people?

The black snake is a kind of gentle snake that does not bite without being attacked. Wild black snakes live in hilly areas below 1600 meters above sea level. They move quickly, react quickly, are good at escape, are docile and do not bite people, but like many snakes, they have no choice but to bite people only when they are in a hurry or are caught in excessive shock.

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 2.5 meters. It is often found near farmland and river ditches, and sometimes found in villages. Due to habitat destruction and a large number of human hunting, the number of living in the wild is greatly reduced and should be protected. It is mainly distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places in the south of China, and then in the south of Anhui and Henan, but the yield is very little.

Species distribution 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 distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan, Xizang, Guizhou and some Southeast Asian countries.