Here’s a tweet that Matthew found; the tweeter, Brutum Fulmen, asks you to spot the copperhead snake (Agkistrodon contortrix). This is one of America’s venomous snake.
I’ll put the picture from @BrutumF’s tweet below the original tweet.
Can you spot the Copperhead Snake? pic.twitter.com/GSJCoBaRKj
— Brutum Fulmen🧢 (@BrutumF) April 25, 2020
Can you spot it? I rate this one “pretty hard”. Answer at 11 a.m. Chicago time.
Slightly above dead center
Very snaky, but I got it. Yes, hardish.
That WAS hard. One of these got me in the leg when I was a boy. Hurt like crazy – like a nasty bee sting.
Found in around a minute or less with the picture enlarged and looking for the smooth edge of the body. And then took me another ten seconds or so to find it again in the ‘small’ picture.
I think it helps if you can ‘prime’ your visual search with an idea of a size, or shape, or edge. Although if your expectations are mistaken the search will take rather longer.
I relied on my spidey sense.
Sure to my wife who grew up in North Carolina. she thinks she can see the head to the bottom right but the coloring doesn’t look like a copperhead. She would really like to know the answer: is it going to be posted anytime today?
Yes, as I said in the post, answer at 11 a.m. on the site.
I appreciate you getting back to me but we just found it. Let me know if you’ve published any recent articles. Behe is just about knocked out – you can tell he is almost too tired to keep up the pretense.
Poisonously hard, this one.
arrrgh…forgive me…it’s like an itch….”venomously hard”. Mushrooms are poisonous, snakes are venomous.
Pedant!
I can’t believe I found it. Usually I never find snakes…they find me.
Got. ‘Tis a good one!
That’s some beautiful cryptic patterning. If the pattern of the body crossing a leaf hadn’t jarred my sense of how leaves should be I think it would have taken ages to find.
Wow, good one. Very (which means I’m not being sarcastic) hard. I see the body but still can’t tell which end is head or tail.
Found it eventually but not at first and that’s scary …
Spotted it after a small eternity. I sure wouldn’t be sitting here typing this if my survival had depended on seeing it!!!
I opened the image in a new full-screen tab, then enlarged it (Ctrl +) several times until I see what I think is its head, in the center of the upper-left quadrant, and just to the right of vegetation.
Venom from copperheads is not deadly, and when people die from copperhead snake bites it is due to an allergic reaction. People who are weak or either very old or very young may experience a significant impact on their body functions from a copperhead snake bite. Pain lasts 10 days.
This one leaves me defeeted.
Perhaps being raised in the Ozarks made this easier for me!
I think snakes are beautiful: and, simultaneously: I just can’t look at them. Nope, can’t do it.
I’m buying snake boots. !
That is certainly some camouflaged right snake there. He/she/it did not want to be found!
Did not see that, we thought two different spots. Its It’s amazing when you are tol where it is, your eyes adjust to it immediately.
I saw the devil himself.
Pretty tough. I had to enlarge the picture to accomplish the task.
Found that copperhead head showing out from under the leaves
I spotted it, but then again I’ve been bitten by one and it’s really a painful experience to say the least..
I see it. Mid picture. He’s very good camouflaged. He gorgeous too. I love snakes
There’s a non venomous snake also at the top and little to the left,that’s probably what he’s after.
The ankle nipper is properly outlined with the head at the top. Look closely and you will see that the uptilted head is a darker bronze color than the rest of the body.
It was easy for me because despite bad vision I have spent my entire life looking for snakes and the copperhead “search pattern” is now hardwired into my brain!
I have often pointed out copperheads lying in plain sight to my non herper friends. They couldn’t see them until I poked them and they moved.
I see him,….
In the middle of the brown leaves, perfectly blending in wow
😥 They are out and about in Texas … as well as all snakes now!
A excellent post!!! As often we come on them alittle too late.
Snake season is here, last week had a coral, 2 rat snakes in the yard plus a water moccasin in the pool!!!🤯
It’s under the big stick
I found it!! Almost in the center
Found it!
Took about 70 seconds!
I do believe that it is more than one in the pictures. Look at the green leaves on both sides of picture
He’s in the middle of the page almost halfway up from the bottom of the picture. Very hard to spot and also very scary!!