{"id":1507,"date":"2019-07-01T14:13:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T14:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2021-06-05T19:28:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T19:28:31","slug":"spare-harmless-beneficial-snake-species-with-a-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"Spare Harmless\/Beneficial Snake Species with a Text"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1509\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snake-blog-2.jpg?resize=640%2C943&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snake-blog-2.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snake-blog-2.jpg?resize=204%2C300&amp;ssl=1 204w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snake-blog-2.jpg?resize=300%2C442&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>804-617-7086 is the number of the Snake Identification service from Virginia Wildlife Management. I shared this <a href=\"https:\/\/wildlife.org\/virginia-snake-id-hotline-helps-spare-harmless-snakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resource<\/a> some time ago in a Facebook post, and then saved the number to my phone. This morning gave me an opportunity to test it out. <br><br>\n\nA friend posted on social media that he needed help IDing the type of snake he found in his yard. Pics of the snake were included in his post.<br><br>\n\nI was stunned that still, in 2019, some people were entirely too quick to reply in the comments, \u201cA dead one.\u201d &#x1f926;&#x1f3fb;&#x200d;&#x2640;&#xfe0f; #smh <br><br>\n\nI texted the pics to Virginia Wildlife Management, requesting an ID, and they replied within minutes. <br><br>\n\nIf you find a snake that you need to identify, please text pics to 804-617-7086. They will get back to you quickly with an ID for the snake. These screenshots are from the actual conversation I had with VA Wildlife Management. <br><br>\n\nRemember that some species are beneficial; some species will even kill copperheads once they set up shop in your yard. <br><br>\n\nAnd, as you can see, the Virginia Wildlife Management folks will help with situations outside of Virginia. <br><br>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1508\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snake-blog-1.jpg?resize=640%2C924&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snake-blog-1.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snake-blog-1.jpg?resize=208%2C300&amp;ssl=1 208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snake-blog-1.jpg?resize=300%2C433&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Default Statcounter code for Lady Bass Music\nhttp:\/\/www.ladybassmusic.net --><br \/><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><br \/>\nvar sc_project=1496529;<br \/>\nvar sc_invisible=0;<br \/>\nvar sc_security=\"ec215b54\";<br \/>\nvar sc_https=1;<br \/>\nvar scJsHost = \"https:\/\/\";<br \/>\ndocument.write(\"<sc\"+\"ript type='text\/javascript' src='\" +\nscJsHost+\n\"statcounter.com\/counter\/counter.js'><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>804-617-7086 is the number of the Snake Identification service from Virginia Wildlife Management. I shared this resource some time ago in a Facebook post, and then saved the number to my phone. This morning gave me an opportunity to test it out. A friend posted on social media that he needed help IDing the type <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/?p=1507\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}