Monday, August 01, 2005

Recent Visitor in Southern Home


One night, after eating at a local Thai restaurant, we returned to find a new friend/foe in our pantry room. Austin turned on the light and calmly stated "Daddy, you need to come in the pantry". After encouraging the family to go upstairs, Dad sweep it into a zip lock bag. To read more about our visitor, visit the following sites:

http://members.fortunecity.com/ukp001/naja/colubridae/amphiesma_stolata.htm

http://wildthailandphotos.com/stripedkeelback.0218.en.htm

This post, in no way suggests that we like snakes. However, next time I encounter this species I may be more apt to let it go since I have now found out that it was nonpoisonous.

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