feeding on worms and other small critters. A toxin its saliva paralyzes prey, but bites afflicted on humans are rare and would likely be about as painful as a bee sting. Red bellied black snakes ...

This iconic snake, with its bulbous head and red, yellow, and black bands, is famous as much for its potent venom as for the many rhymes—"Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black ...