6 Yellow and Black Snakes

6 Yellow and Black Snakes with Photo and Information

When people see a snake they cannot identify, they tend to look it up by the colors or other descriptions. Big snake. Long snake. Thick black snake. If you want to know how to identify snakes by looking at the variables that define them and differentiate them, see our “How To Identify a Snake?” post.

Yellow and Black Snake Identification

Here are some yellow and black snakes with photos for most. If you don’t find the snake here – will you leave a comment or send a photo to us so we can try to identify it?

1. Mangrove Cat-eyed Snake

This black and yellow snake is native to Southeast Asia. It is a colubrid (rear fanged) with a mild venom that doesn’t affect most people. Bites by this snake are not known to have been deadly in the past. This snake is sometimes confused with the Banded Krait, but you can see in #2 below, they really don’t look much alike.

Thailand Snakes – Venomous and Non-Venomous snake information!

2. Yellow and Black Banded Krait

Deadly and beautiful, the yellow and black Banded Krait is a really amazing-looking snake. Southeast Asia is where you will find these snakes in the wild. The yellow and black snakes on this page are from SE Asia, so their identities are sometimes confused.

3. Laotian Wolf Snake

A small (70 cm) snake which is known to be non-venomous, is also a native of Southeast Asia and Laos – the country it is named after. These snakes are typically timid and not interested in biting at all. Laotian wolf snakes are black with yellow and white bands across the dorsal (top) of the length of the body of the snake. Toward the tail the pattern changes to more of a yellow or white spider-web type effect.

4. Wagler’s Pit Viper

Though not always yellow and black, Tropidolaemus wagleri can come in a stunningly beautiful yellow and black snake phase like you see in the image above. This snake was from Krabi, Thailand where I live. We don’t see these snakes often, but when we do – we get lots of photos!

5. Juvenile King Cobra

Some juvenile king cobras are yellow and black snakes upon hatching and for a short while until they turn into adults. Above you see the head of one very small (50cm) hatchling King Cobra which was quite yellow and black. King Cobras are of course quite deadly, even as hatchlings – where their venom is even more toxic than adult snakes.

6. Golden Tree Snake

The Golden Tree Snake is sometimes called a “yellow and black snake” but in most cases they are some shade of very light green and black. The photo above shows the most yellow and black C. ornata I’ve ever seen.

There are other snakes with yellow and black colors, but they also have other colors mixed in. The snakes above are the ones that I think of for yellow/black snakes.

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Thailand Snakes – Venomous and Non-Venomous snake information!