12/11/2025
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Another day, another plethora of misinformation about snakes shared on community pages 😔
We ask that you PLEASE reach out to your local, professional Reptile Consultants for correct Identification.
Or post your photos in Australian Snake Identification, Education + Advocacy - ASIEA.
NOT on the community pages. Playing "Guess the snake" is a dangerous game in Australia
In the last 12 hours we've seen:
• Jan's banded (Simoselaps bertholdi) misidentified as a baby Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus)
🧪 Jan's Banded snakes are weakly venomous.
🧪 Tiger snakes are highly venomous.
Baby Tiger snakes are born between March and May.
• Jan's banded misidentified as a Bandy bandy.
🧪 Bandy-bandy snakes are weakly venomous
There are 6 know species of Bandy-bandy, none of which are found in Perth. The only one native to Western Australia is the Pilbra Bandy-bandy
(Vermicella snelli) which is confined to the Pilbra region.
• Jan's banded misidentified as a Ringed brown snake (Pseudonaja modesta.)
🧪 Ringed Brown snakes are considered moderately venomous, but should be treated as potentially dangerous incase of anaphylaxis.
They are found across a large stretch of land through central Australia, spreading from West to East, but not in Perth.
• Dugite misidentified as a Python
🧪 Pythons are non venomous
• Dugite misidentified as a Yellow bellied black snake.
There's no such thing as a Yellow bellied black snake in Australia.
• A Fraser's Delma Legless lizard (Delma fraseri) misidentified as a snake with additional comments from the village idiots to "kill it."
🧪 Non venomous
• Comments about there being more snakes this year.
• Comments about snakes being bigger this year 🤔
There's definitely not more snakes than usual, but all the land development has misplaced a lot of them.
We've built right on top of them, then act surprised that they're there....even though they were there all along 🤷🏾♀️
We're also seeing the same, local snakes photographed and posted by 20+ people, so it looks like there's 20 snakes, when it is just the same snake that is just going through its morning routine of coming out to bask in the same area.
It is also breeding season for the dugites, so males are venturing a little bit further from their home zones looking to chat up pretty lady snakes. They will always take themselves back, we just need to give them space to get there.
Then of course, once you respond or comment on a snake photo or video, the algorithm will make sure you see EVERY snake video or comment, so it seems like there's more snakes than usual.
Send your snake photos to me on 0433 590 721 to ensure you get a CORRECT Identification.
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