Garden Discussion Topic | Poisonous Snakes

As much as I love gardening, I can't stand bugs and snakes.

There's some construction next door to my mother's house and when her gardeners were working in the yard last weekend, they were inundated with snakes slithering about rampantly and irritated at being disturbed.

My skin crawls just thinking about it, but it posed an interesting discussion question this morning over breakfast: what's the most poisonous snake?

Clearly, there is scientific and educational research and documentation to which we could refer, but the speculation over a plate of pancakes was far more interesting.

My boys finally came to a concensus, albeit one not based on research, but a concensus all the same:

• Copperheads are the most deadly young snakes, because they're born with the full amount of venom but haven't yet developed the control to not administer the whole bit in one bite.
• Cottonmouths are the most deadly adult snakes, because that's what the mister can remember from Boy Scouts and growing up here in the old North state.

What do you think is the most deadly snake ... remember, you'll be cheating the 'code of pancake speculation' if you look it up. :)