The eastern coral snake is found in scattered localities in the southern Coastal Plain from North Carolina to Louisiana, including all of Florida, where they are most prevalent. They can be found in pine and scrub oak sand hills habitats in parts of their range but sometimes inhabit hardwood areas and pine flat woods that undergo seasonal flooding.
Eastern coral snake is rarely seen in most areas where they occur, probably because they are highly secretive and spend most of their time underground. They typically do not climb trees or shrubs and spend only limited time crawling above ground. Most sightings of coral snakes are in the spring and fall.
A bite from the notoriously venomous eastern coral snake at first seems anticlimactic. There is little or no pain or swelling at the site of the bite, and other symptoms can be delayed for 12 hours. Eastern Coral snake is extremely reclusive and generally bites humans only when handled or stepped on. However, if untreated by antivenin, the neurotoxin begins to disrupt the connections between the brain and the muscles, causing slurred speech, double vision, and muscular paralysis, eventually ending in respiratory or cardiac failure.
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Adult eastern coral snake is slender, medium sized snakes that may reach almost 4 feet in length. They have smooth scales and the anal plate is usually divided. The most obvious feature of an eastern coral snake is the bright body pattern of red, yellow, and black rings in which the red and yellow rings touch each other. The nose is black. Eastern coral snake is superficially similar but the red only touches the black rings. The coral snake is the only eastern species of snake with a pair.
Adult eastern coral snake is slender, medium sized snakes that may reach almost 4 feet in length. They have smooth scales and the anal plate is usually divided. The most obvious feature of an eastern coral snake is the bright body pattern of red, yellow, and black rings in which the red and yellow rings touch each other. The nose is black. Eastern coral snake is superficially similar but the red only touches the black rings. The coral snake is the only eastern species of snake with a pair.
