Backyard snakes

[Duck Butter]

Only seen 2 living coral snakes in my life and they were about 5 minutes apart. My in-laws always kill a couple in their yards in Lincoln Parish and I can't get them to stop killing them completely but I have gotten them to not tear em up too bad when they do. I have a couple preserved in jars

Coral snakes are not vipers like all our other venomous snakes but elapids. They would literally have to find something small enough to fit their small mouths on and chew on it for a while to inject any venom and they are always trying to get away from capture (can not get one to stop for a picture), but either way I can see where people would kill them oh well