According to the Florida Museum of Natural History there are 19 nonvenomous snake species that live in Florida and there are six venomous species. At least four of the nonvenomous species found in the state are not native that have been imported from overseas as pets and then released into the wild, these snakes are now considered as invasive species. They are, the African rock-Python, the boa constrictor, the Burmese python and the carpet Python.



The six venomous species are the Coral Springs cottonmouth, dusky pygmy rattlesnake, Eastern coral snake, Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, southern copperhead and the timber rattlesnake. In Florida there is also a lizard called a glass lizard that has no legs and is most often thought to be a snake, the easiest way to tell it is not a snake is that it has eyelids and blinks its eyes, snakes have no eyelids and therefore cannot blink, the glass lizard when agitated blinks rapidly and gives itself away, another way to tell it is a lizard is that it has ears on the sides of its head, snakes have no external ears.

I believe most people would look at me saying there are 25 species of snake in Florida and think I haven't got a clue what I am talking about, but there are only 25 species and another almost 60 subspecies so that is why most people think Florida has a lot of snakes. Most people have a pathological fear of snakes and in reality there is absolutely no justification for it, and before you say I am wrong again I would ask you a question, snakes kill about five people across the whole United States each year, in 2014 they estimated 26,000 snakes were killed by human beings or our pets, so I don't think the snakes would agree they are the dangerous animal.

Everyone should remember that all Coral Springs snakes are vital to our ecosystems, they are all predators yes but they prey on creatures we want them to, they eat a lot of mice, a lot of other small rodents and even other snakes, including the venomous ones and if we leave them alone to live their lives they will do a lot of good for us and they are really no threat to us, snakes do not hunt humans for food but some humans hunt snakes for food.

Currently Florida has the most invasive non-native species in North America with approximately 26% of all fish, reptiles and birds being exotic, meaning they are not native to North America. The most dangerous snake let loose in Florida is by far and away the Burmese python, these snakes have voracious appetites and can eat animals up to and including an adult deer. At the moment any Burmese python seen in a national park is killed immediately, even a these snakes are still sold as pets in Miami with almost 6000 being sold between 2003 and 2005 alone. National parks staff estimate between 5000 and 180,000 of the snakes currently reside in Florida's national parks.

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