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Volume Number 7 Issue Number 2 Summer/Fall 2009
Chris Peters of Osage County, Missouri, checked with the state biologist and determined that this is a Milk Snake. Here is what Chris said about the snake: “Here‟s a cool snake I saw recently. It was sunning on a county road near our farm. The Milk Snake is a very secretive and rarely seen in the open in Missouri, so I thought it was a pretty cool find. It is considered a mimic of the Coral Snake, but I believe folks who don‟t know might be more likely to mistake it for a Copperhead or other poisonous snake. Luckily it was me that saw it, photographed it, then watched it slither off the road to safety before someone else came along and ran it over. Awesome colors !!” PG 30