Yellow Bellied Sea Snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Yellow-bellied sea snake Pelamis platurus Description: Upper part of body is black or dark brown...
Yellow-bellied sea snake Pelamis platurus Description: Upper part of body is black or dark brown...
Banded sea snake Laticauda colubrina Description: Smooth-scaled snake that is a pale shade of blue...
Tiger snake Notechis scutatus Description: Olive to dark brown above with yellowish or olive belly...
Taipan Oxyuranus scutellatus Description: Generally uniformly olive or dark brown, with a somewhat darker brown...
Death adder Acanthophis antarcticus Description: Reddish, yellowish, or brown color with distinct dark brown crossbands....
Tropical rattlesnake Crotalus durissus or Crotalus terrificus Description: The Tropical Rattlesnake is also known as...
Fer-de-lance Bothrops atrox or Bothrops lanceolatus The Fer-de-lance (also known as Lancehead) are several closely...
Jumping viper Bothrops nummifer (or Atropoides) Description: It has a stocky, thick body. Its ground...
Eyelash pit viper Bothrops schlegeli Description: Eyelash pit vipers (also known as Eyelash Mountain...
Coral snake Micrurus fulvius Description: The Coral Snake is colorfully marked with rings that are...
Bushmaster Lachesis muta Description: The Bushmaster body color is pale brown or pinkish, with a...
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...
Tarantula Theraphosidae and Lycosa species Description: Very large, brown, black, reddish, hairy spiders. Tarantula size...
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...
Physic nut Jatropha curcas Spurge (Euphoriaceae) Family Description: The Physic nut, or Jatropha plant, is...
Manchineel Hippomane mancinella Spurge (Euphorbiaceae) Family Description: The deadly Manchineel tree (sometimes written “manchioneel”) is...
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...
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...