Saw Scaled Viper snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Saw-scaled viper Echis carinatus Description: Color is light buff with shades of brown, dull red,...
Saw-scaled viper Echis carinatus Description: Color is light buff with shades of brown, dull red,...
Sand viper Cerastes vipera Description: Usually uniformly very pallid, with three rows of darker brown...
Rhinoceros viper or river jack Bitis nasicornis Description: Brightly colored with purplish to reddish-brown markings...
Puff adder Bitis arietans Description: Yellowish, light brown, or orange with chevron-shaped dark brown or...
Mole viper or burrowing viper Atracaspis microlepidota Description: Uniformly black or dark brown with a...
Green mamba Dendraspis angusticeps Description: Most mambas are uniformly bright green over their entire body....
Gaboon viper Bitis gabonica Description: Pink to brown with a vertebral series of elongated yellowish...
Habu Pit Viper Naja haje Description: Yellowish, dark brown, or black uniform top with brown...
Bush viper Atheris squamiger Description: Often called leaf viper, its color varies from ground colors...
Boomslang Dispholidus typus Description: Coloration varies but is generally green or brown, which makes it...
Coral snake Micrurus fulvius Description: The Coral Snake is colorfully marked with rings that are...
Ticks are in the same family as spiders and hence share some characteristics with them (e.g. like spiders, Ticks have…
Wasps and hornets Description: The Wasp, or Hornet (also known as Dirt Daubers, Mud Daubers,...
Bee Description: Bees are flying insects with brown or black, hairy, fuzz-covered bodies (the hair...
Centipede Description: Centipedes have multi-jointed body, each segment having a pair of legs, growing to...
Black Widow spider Latrodectus species Description: Black Widow Spiders are dark, usually black, medium sized...
Scorpion Scorpionidae order Description: Scorpions are dull brown, yellow, or black (the most common is...
Rosary pea or crab’s eyes Abrus precatorius Leguminosae (Fabaceae) Family Description: The Rosary Pea plant...
Poison hemlock, fool’s parsley Conium maculatum Parsley (Apiaceae) Family Description: The poison hemlock plant (also...
Lantana Lantana camara Vervain (Verbenaceae) Family Description: The poisonous Lantana plant, also known as Spanish...
Cowhage, cowage, cowitch Mucuna pruritum (Mucuna pruriens) Leguminosae (Fabaceae) Family Description: Cowhage, also known as...
Castor bean, castor-oil plant, palma Christi Ricinus communis Spurge (Euphorbiaceae) Family Description: The castor bean...
Wild onion and garlic (Allium species) Allium cernuum and Allium canadense are examples of the...
Wild grape vine (Vitis species) The wild grapevine climbs with the aid of “tendrils” on...
Wild gourd or luffa sponge (Luffa aegyptiaca, Luffa cylindrica) The luffa sponge (also known as...