ID this snake?

[Lickeypie]

My neighbor found a snake in her yard a few weeks back and found shed in the same spot today. We live in eastern pennsylvania.

I am really bad at IDing snakes but I think it is an eastern milk snake. She is afraid that its a copperhead.


http://i40.tinypic.com/35i5evm.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/1z6hap4.jpg

[Will0W783]

Looks like an Eastern milk snake to me.

[snakeman879]

It looks really simelar to a corn snake do u know if eny one keeps corns in the area? Copper heads also look like corn snakes so couldent tell u 100% what it is im shure that some one wull be able to help u better. Good luck

[Will0W783]

snakeman879, corn snakes have a lot more yellowish-tinge to them.
I personally do not think either the milks or the corns look like copperheads, having kept all of them. The copperhead body shape is more triangular and much wider, the head is arrow-shaped and the patterns are very different.

Here is a page comparing copperheads to other native non-venomous PA reptile species. Hope it helps you see the differences.

Northern Copperhead (http://www.virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com/reptiles/snakes/northern-copperhead/northern_copperhead.htm)

[poison123]

Looks like an Eastern milk snake to me.

Agreed....

[Lickeypie]

Thank you :)

[infernalis]

I confirm this, as I keep the species. It is a Lampropeltis Triangulum, Common Eastern milk snake, very beneficial as they eat field mice.

http://www.danceswithreptiles.com/PG1/images/1milkfed.jpg

http://www.danceswithreptiles.com/PG1/images/carmella.jpg