Re: A Bicycle Safety Parable

On 7/24/2024 2:20 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:07:01 GMT, Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
 

On Sun Jul 21 14:43:31 2024 Catrike Ryder  wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 11:32:46 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:
I sometimes see real alligators on the trail, and quite often,
poisonous snakes.

 

There are very few poisonous snakes in Florida - limited almost entirely to water mocasins which are not aggressive. 99% of snakes you would see are non-poisonous insect and small lizard or rodent eating species. It took me three years to actually catch a rattlesnake.

 "Venomous snake statement"
<https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-snake-id/venomous-snake-statement/>
"In Florida, we have six such species: the Harlequin Coralsnake, the
Eastern Copperhead, the Florida Cottonmouth, the Pygmy Rattlesnake,
the Timber Rattlesnake, and the Eastern Diamond-backed Rattlesnake."
 Note that your water moccasin is not on the list of Florida venomous
snakes.
 

The Florida Cottonmouth is a species of the genus that the water moccasin belongs to. It isn't commonly called a water moccasin, but apparently easily confused (especially by those who are easily confusable).