Snakes and spiders in Tulsa County, Oklahoma

Yes. The broad-banded copperhead: 6 licensed records, 3% of all Oklahoma records of it. The eastern copperhead: 3 licensed records, 1% of all Oklahoma records of it. The southern black widow: 7 licensed records, 11% of all Oklahoma records of it. The brown recluse: 5 licensed records, 4% of all Oklahoma records of it. The northern black widow: on record, no openly licensed records to count.

In all, 27 snake species are on the Tulsa County list. The most recorded are the western ground snake (535), the flathead snake (219) and the lined snake (112).

Observation records of snakes in Tulsa County run mostly March through September, peaking in May with 29% of them, the same peak as Oklahoma as a whole.

In all, 49 spider species are on the Tulsa County list. The most recorded are the bold jumper (127), the familiar jumping spider (29) and the flea jumping spider (29). Tulsa County holds more than half of all Oklahoma records of the thin-spined jumping spider.

Observation records of spiders in Tulsa County run mostly April through October, peaking in May with 16% of them; across Oklahoma the peak is September.

Species for which Tulsa County holds a large share of all Oklahoma records: the thin-spined jumping spider, 60% (12 of 20); the eastern wormsnake, 47% (36 of 76); the western ground snake, 40% (535 of 1,354); the bold jumper, 25% (127 of 511); the lined snake, 23% (112 of 480); the Putnam's jumper, 20% (14 of 69); the flea jumping spider, 20% (29 of 144); the flathead snake, 17% (219 of 1,297).

Among the snakes most recorded across Oklahoma, these do not reach the county list: the northern cottonmouth (429 statewide) and the western diamondback rattlesnake (417 statewide). Few records here can mean the species is rare in the county, or that few people have looked.

Copperheads are on the county list, and so are harmless species often taken for them: the plain-bellied watersnake, the northern water snake and the eastern hog-nosed snake. No cottonmouths reach the county list, but the northern cottonmouth is on the Oklahoma list: treat any snake like it as venomous until identified. Harmless species often taken for them here: the plain-bellied watersnake, the diamondback water snake and the northern water snake. No rattlesnakes reach the county list, but the western diamondback rattlesnake, the timber rattlesnake, the pygmy rattlesnake, the western massasauga and the prairie rattlesnake are on the Oklahoma list: treat any snake like them as venomous until identified. Harmless species often taken for them here: the gopher snake and the eastern hog-nosed snake. Widow spiders are on the county list, and so are harmless species often taken for them: the triangulate bud spider. Recluse spiders are on the county list, and so are harmless species often taken for them: the longbodied cellar spider.

By licensed snake records Tulsa County ranks 1st of 77 Oklahoma counties with any.

Other Oklahoma counties with their own page: Comanche County, LeFlore County, Cleveland County, McCurtain County, Okmulgee County, Marshall County, Rogers County and Atoka County.

The whole state: venomous species in Oklahoma, all snakes, all spiders.