{"id":9180,"date":"2026-08-25T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=9180"},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:01:16","slug":"sonoran-coralsnake-in-tucson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/snake-removal\/sonoran-coralsnake-in-tucson\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonoran Coralsnake in Tucson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Fourth of July relocation call for Candace turned up this Sonoran Coralsnake. These are tiny, venomous snakes, but not really something people need to worry about. Just don&#8217;t pick it up, and there&#8217;s really no danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_1662-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_1662-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_1662-666x533.jpg 666w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_1662-768x615.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_1662.jpg 1161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They have small, front-fixed fangs and can deliver venom. However, these little snakes here in Arizona tend to go with a different method to defend themselves: they fart. Not kidding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B\u00e9nard-Valle M, Neri-Castro E, Elizalde-Morales N, Olvera-Rodr\u00edguez A, Strickland J, Acosta G, Alag\u00f3n A. Protein composition and biochemical characterization of venom from Sonoran Coral Snakes (Micruroides euryxanthus). Biochimie. 2021 Mar;182:206-216. doi: 10.1016\/j.biochi.2021.01.003. Epub 2021 Jan 21. PMID: 33485932.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Fourth of July relocation call for Candace turned up this Sonoran Coralsnake. These are tiny, venomous snakes, but not really something people need to worry about. Just don&#8217;t pick it up, and there&#8217;s really no danger. They have small, front-fixed fangs and can deliver venom. However, these little snakes here in Arizona tend to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snake-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9182,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions\/9182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}