I'm okay with snakes, don't love 'em, but I can handle it. When my son was about 6 we went to one of the first earth day exhibits and a docent was showing off a snake -- that wanted to investigate my purse. My son was a little upset that I took it out and let it wrap around my arm. He wanted to know why I wasn't scared like the other moms were, after all, I was too scared to go into Butterfly World at a local amusement park nd snakes were much scarier.
Not to me, give me a snake any day rather than a moth or butterfly.