I forgot that I had this picture of the table before I did my restoration. This is a coral snake I found in my shop one morning. Yes they are poisonous. I put him on the table to photograph because his colors contrasted nicely against the cloth. I released him back into the wild. Can't see a good reason to kill it. They are pretty snakes.
Remember...Red and black, friend of Jack. Red and yellow, kills a fellow!
i was in the reptile biz years back. "if yellow touches red, your dead" and that little guy right there is the real deal. I never had any of the "hot" or poison stuff, except a couple rattlers we caught and released.