Copperhead Snake
The Copperhead Snake is a long snake, growing to a full length of 30 to 35 inches. Its name comes from its plain reddish-copper colored head and lighter pink-tan body.
The Northern Copperhead Snake is closely related to the dangerous Eastern Cottonmouth Snake, a venomous snake that does not live in nature in Ohio.
Lowland Copperhead Snake
The Lowland Copperhead (Austrelaps superbus) prefers to live in swampy or marshy areas where it feeds on frogs, lizards and smaller snakes. It has a relatively smaller head than the tiger snake.
Young Copperhead Snake
Caught to show the YCC Girls in July. Usually copperheads don't bite. However, if you grab one or get very close to one, it will and can bite you.
On average, a copperhead snake is 24 to 36 inches long; an average weight has not been determined. The oldest reported copperhead in the wild was 30 years old.
I found a copperhead snake here, the first I have ever seen.
(no date) 1857 West Northfield?
Samuel Arny sent me from Kansas several snakes and a lizard which looks like Tropidolepus and has transverse bars of red on the back.
The copperhead snake is found in southern Indiana in the limestone regions. The banded water snake is often mis-identified as a copperhead because of similar coloration.
Unfortunately, many people mistake their coloration; a tan body with reddish-brown blotchy patches; as a poisonous copperhead snake and kill them out of fear.
 See also: Copper, Snake, Copperhead, Mice, Water Snake
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