Can YOU spot the deadly snake lurking among leaves on this forest floor?

CAN you spot the deadly snake lurking among the leaves on this forest floor? Eagle-eyed Reddit users have been trying to spot the almost invisible serpent. Can you spot the venomous snake lurking in the leaves? Reddit users have been scratching their heads trying to find the slippery serpent It shows an innocuous forest floor covered in dried leaves, sticks and bits of green plants but among it hides a lethal serpent – can you see it? “The reason why you need to watch every step you take when out in the woods,” the post’s author captioned the photo. The image left users scratching their heads. “Based on this, watching your step seems futile. Unless I want to spend my whole afternoon taking a very safe 50ft hike,” one person wrote. MORE ON OPTICAL ILLUSIONS BIRD’S EYE VIEW What you see in this optical illusion could mean you’re IRRESPONSIBLE SINK OR SWIM Illusion looks like naked woman in the sea… can you work out what’s going on? “Gotta use your walking sticks like the blind use canes,” quipped a second. “This is why I wear closed toed shoes,” said another. “You have to sprint and scream as loud as you can while in the woods. This will scare pretty much everything away,” wrote a third. Look a little closer and you’ll spot an S shape on the left of the yellow-green leaf in the middle. Most read in The Sun HOT STUFF Live UK weather updates as 20C temps to blast Britain in mini-heatwave THIS WEEK MADDIE PROBE Madeleine McCann cops 'find new evidence' in suspect Christian B's van 'HIGH FIVE' Soap star Philip Olivier is expecting fifth child 7 months after having fourth NO CLASS My boy, 7, has NEVER spent a full day at school - he can't read or write SECRET STASH Man found £6m in £390 storage unit… and there was an incredible twist life changing BGT's Jonathan Goodwin paralysed and in a wheelchair after US stunt The Copperhead snake has light brown triangles and is completely camouflaged with the foliage. It comes as a hiker snapped a “ghost-like figure” when he climbed a mountain last month. Thomas Swallow, 39, had gone ahead of his friends when he turned and saw a figure hovering high above the ground. But he was actually looking at his own reflection on Great End in the Lake District.  The phenomenon is a rare optical illusion known as a brocken spectre, where a large shadow is cast onto cloud or mist.  Thomas, of Manchester, said: “I was taken aback a little bit. It’s really beautiful. “It looks like a figure floating into the sky, it looks quite spiritual. “It was weird, surreal and a really beautiful moment – I was looking down a gully from the summit, the sun was behind me and shining bright. “It was a cloudy day so the clouds were moving in and out of the summit. “I could see moisture particles in the air when I looked up and I saw my shadow in the middle of a rainbow. “I was in the moment and enjoying it thinking ‘I’ve never seen anything like this before’.”