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Lone Star Field Guide to Texas Snakes (Lone Star Field Guides)

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"Dad, you almost stepped on that Green Mamba". That is what my 4-year old (sitting on my shoulders) told me when we were walking in Dinosaur Valley state park. Using the second edition of this book I was able to identify the snake as the "Rough Green Snake" when I got home. I am glad there are no Green Mambas in Texas (in the wild), but there are still some very poisonous snakes to watch out for. Seven species of rattle snake, two species of Massasauga, and a pigmy rattle snake, cottonmouth (water moccasin), three species of copperhead, and the Texas Coral snake. The Texas Coral snake is the most poisonous of the snakes in Texas (but it is not aggressive) and the poison from the Mojave Rattle Snake can kill six adults (lives only in West Texas). There are 105 species of snakes all in all in Texas.

This edition (third edition) has essentially the same pictures and information as the second edition, but the third edition is organized better, is a little bit bigger, and more updated. What I really like about this book is that for each of the snakes it has a map of Texas showing the distribution of the snake. The book is also well organized and the photos are good. It is also an interesting book to read, it contains a lot of facts about the various snakes. Once you start reading about the various snakes, and looking at the pictures and the distribution maps, you just can't put it down. The book tickles your curiosity. Compared to other Texas snake books that I have seen this one is the most interesting and the most well organized of them all. If you quickly need to identify a snake this is the right book.

Thanks to this book, we are able to see which snakes help around the farm and which ones we needed to get rid of.
It has great color pictures, but wished they had more.
I would recommend this book to anyone that lives in North East TX..

If you want to identify or capture snakes in Texas, this is the book to have. Great pictures in an easy to follow format.

I am new to Texas and wanted to learn about the many snakes in this area. Thanks to the Lone Star Field Guide I was able to find valuable information. It has very good pictures and good text.

The book provides good written detail but not a lot of pictures. However, the pictures provided are clear, sharp, and cover each snake in the book. Knowing this, I would still have bought.

The index for this book---basically none--is the worst I have ever seen. I tossed this and now use the internet to identify snakes. But I will keep searching for a book that actually has a common sense index to it. This one does not.