black and yellow snake in my yard.

[TylerxToxic]

My mom saw a black snake with a couple of yellow stripes going down its body. I was wondering if anyone knows what kind of snake it is?
I think it might be a milk snake or a king snake. but I dont think any of them look like that. I dont think it was poisonous so yea.
I live in south carolina. around myrtle beach.

[dsirkle]

If you were near me I would say a garter snake. But I have no idea what is where you are.

[wolfy-hound]

He's in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Probably a garter snake. I can't think of any venomous snakes that would match that description at all.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Sounds like a garter or a ribbon snake to me!

[blackcrystal22]

I'm guessing a ribbon snake..
Look something like this?

http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/nature/snakes/ribbonsn.jpg

[TylerxToxic]

Is a ribbon snake poisoness??

[Beardedragon]

Is a ribbon snake poisoness??

Not at all.

[mooingtricycle]

Im not 100% Sure How closely Ribbons are related to Garters, but garters are actually a mildly venomous species, and since they are related i wonder if Ribbons actually are much the same in respect to producing venom, as garters do?

While considered non harmful to humans, they also lack the means to deliver it properly as well, and really need to chew on you. ( the effects that i can find around the web seem to all say the same: usually just mild itching, and or swelling if anything at all) It helps that its produced in very tiny amounts too.
Maybe someone who keeps them, would be able to elaborate on this information further, and whether or not Ribbons are also venomous similarly to Garters? Has this been studied?

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Ribbons snakes and garter snakes are one in the same. People just came up with the names ribbon and garter, to differentiate between the long skinny ones, and the short fat ones. this is why i dislike common names, and would rather use the only true, correct names, the scientific latin names. They are all the same genus, thamnophis, and all thamnophis are actually by the books, a rear fanged venomous animal. Don't let that scare you though, their venom is so incredibly mild that it won't do anything, unless you have some sort of allergy to it. They are all semi/heavily aquatic snakes that favor amphibians, fishes, earthworms, leeches, slugs, and snails as prey. I actually was priveledged to take a very good solid bite from a large female the other day and she dug in deep enough to get her rear fangs into me. You can very, very clearly see where they penetrated my skin, and the areas around those two teeth marks are swollen and tender, and my wrist aches a little. She held on for about 30 seconds chewing! If it's still as cool looking tomorrow I'll take a picture. You can literally see the entire tooth layout on my skin!!! Sure did bleed a lot Anyway, you can refer to a nice species list of thamnophis here!

http://www.thamnophis.com/caresheets...itle=Main_Page

[Skiploder]

Thamnophis are not opistoglyphic - they are aglyphic.

In other words, they are not "rear-fanged" in the traditional sense, but they are definitely venomous and some species do have nominally enlarged rear teeth - vagrans being a good example.

Remember, most colubrids are venomous but only about a third of those are actually rear-fanged.