Adult rat snakes are longer than adult copperhead snakes The dorsal of a copperhead is reddishtan, with hourglassshaped dark brown crossbanded dorsal, whereas that of rat snake would have irregular blotches or stripes on black, gray, yellow, red, brown, blackandwhite, or orange The head of a rat snake is small and wedgeshaped with a large cluster of scales aboveCan you kill a rat snake in Georgia?The Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) is by far the most wide spread venomous snake of Georgia (and the US) They can be found ALL over Georgia (except some southern counties bordering Florida) There are five subspecies of copperhead (3 are in Georgia);
How To Identify The Copperhead