Recently received this query via our website - wonder if any of our US members can help out with advice, or supply me with an email where Deana can email you directly. Sounds to me like one of the milk snakes, but I'm really not familiar with US geography and snake distributions, certainly not sufficient to try to help out with relatively little info Credit will be given to SAReptiles/members of course
Thank you for reading my letter! Outside of the hermitage yesterday morning a dead snake was discovered. Relatively speaking it was small and skinny. About 12 inches long. The snake had a pattern from tip of head it was black and had patterned rings of black and red..black as I said beginning at the head and so forth. I live on the Mojave Desert in the Hi Desert region of Victorville, California. With that information, Sir, would you be able to identify the classification and tell me if it is venomous? May you be blessed with peace love and kindness this day! Thanks for your help! Deana