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Hawaii

hlthe2b

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4. NO... and they have been fighting for many decades to keep it that way

Reply to brush (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 07:53 AM

Oct 2018

To be absolutely accurate, in case we have a resident herpetologist, there are no native snakes on Hawaiian Islands. There is, however, a tiny earthworm- like snake (the Hawaiian Blind snake) that originated from the Philippines and is among the world's tiniest snakes. It feeds on termites and ants, is nonvenomous and thus really more earthworm than snake at only six inches or so)..

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Officials recover 6-foot-long snake on Hawaii Island [View all] TexasTowelie Oct 2018 OP

Shit... I hope they find it to have been a single smuggled pet and not hlthe2b Oct 2018 #1

Are there no snakes in Hawaii? brush Oct 2018 #2

i had always heard no samnsara Oct 2018 #3

NO... and they have been fighting for many decades to keep it that way hlthe2b Oct 2018 #4

Wow! Thanks for the info. I had no idea. brush Oct 2018 #5