beer monkey, the Ovophis monticola at Doi Inthanon was caught without any snake catching equipment. The back of a large knife was used to pin the head.

Ramphotyphlops braminus known as a Common Blind Snake is fossorial, living under the ground or inside rotting logs. It eats ant and termite larvae. Something else of note, it is parthenogenic and there are only females in Thailand. The slow worm is a lizard, Anguis fragilis, which forages on the ground and eats invertebrates (one I kept as a child loved to eat earthworms).

not a snake but a



ho is this same one now

Who's his skinny mate next to him..? and why the big guy only got 5 legs..

looks like one of those things they deep fry and sell under the escalators at Big C................................

The rainy season has just hit us, which will be accompanied by an increase of snake activity. This is also the time that most snakes hatch/are born. Keep in mind, baby venomous snakes are just as dangerous as the adults and come out of the egg/the mother with fully loaded venom glands.

I just caught a young non-venomous snake this morning just outside the house.

Ok thanks to Micheal C's comprehensive and very informative listing of venomous snakes that reside in Udon I am pretty sure this one is not venomous but for the life of me can't find out what it was. I searched after the event, at least two years ago, on various websites to identify it but no luck.
The description is vague but its the best I got. It was wrapped around a piece of bamboo used for hanging wet clothes on, seemed to be basking in the early morning sunlight. At least 2m long possibly more and looked a silver colour. I had just walked out the back door and nearly ended up nose to nose with it! It moved a hell of a lot quicker than me, fortunately in the opposite direction.
Just wondered if our resident snake expert could shine any light on what it possibly was.

If it was 2m, silver in colour and hanging off the ground on bamboo set up to hang clothes, I can assure you that it is non-venomous. Sorry, but there was not enough of a description to give an identification of exactly what species it is.