My stepdad told me he grew up killing water moccasins on his farm. Well we live on his farm now and it turns out… this guy has no idea what a water moccasin looks like…
In his mind, literally ANY snake is a water moccasin, no matter how obviously it is NOT a water moccasin.
Black racers, garter snakes, water snakes, rat snakes… he doesn’t know the difference, he just kills them all assuming that they are all water moccasins. I keep telling him they’re harmless and even beneficial to have on a farm in some cases, but he never listens. Idk if he genuinely doesn’t believe me, or just doesn’t care. He gets annoyed when I correct him about stuff.
Now I go looking for snakes before work to move them into the woods before he finds them on the property.