The Buttermilk racer in the picture is native to Louisiana, with small populations spilling over the borders to Arkansas and Texas. Two subspecies of Yellow-bellied racers are recognized. The Eastern Yellow-bel
Field collection We captured 438 snakes from field expeditions to Peru (2016–2018), Nicaragua (2018), Belize (2019), and the United States (Texas, Colorado; 2021). We collected snakes through a combination of opportunistic foot surveys, drift-fence lines with pitfall and funnel traps, and ...
References in periodicals archive ? If you particularly liked gators and snakes, on the other side of town, Texas Jim Mitchell ran the Framalopa Reptile Farm, which featured dozing rattlesnakes, coral snakes, cottonmouth moccasins, black snakes, gopher snakes, and chicken snakes; a wildcat, look...
is a type of king snake that can be found in multiple parts of the Midwestern portions of the United States. These snakes are usually gray or brown and tend to have some spots along the length of their body. The yellow-bellied king snake can have a belly that is a yellow or tanner...
Copperheads reside "from southern New England to West Texas and northern Mexico," said Beane, advising those interested to check out range maps in a number of field guides. There are five subspecies of copperhead distributed according to geographic range: the northern, northwestern, southern and ...
yellow, tan, albinos (no melanin pigmentation), high orange (hypomelanistic, or low in melanin), and even leucism (reduced pigmentation). Leucistic Texas rat snakes have become valued in the pet trade due to their unusual coloring, and they�re often pinkish perhaps with a little bit of...
of trouble. People find them in trees, yards, and more, but around the White River, these snakes are most likely in the trees and shrubs, looking for rodents and birds. Western rat snakes are common throughout most of their range in the midwestern United States south intoTexasandLouisiana....
Eastern coral snake (Micrurus fulvius): Ranging from North Carolina to Florida and Texas, this is the brightest of North American coral snakes. According to theFlorida Museum of Natural History, its body is entirely covered in bright bands of black, red and yellow. Narrow bright yellow rings ...
Austin County, Texas, USA March 23, 2009 On March 23, 2009 I had the opportunity to visit a park on the Brazos River in Austin County, Texas, USA. It was still pretty early in the year and…Continue reading . . . Marin County, Californie, USA ...
Look for red, black and yellow or white banding around the snake's body to identify a coral snake, a highly venomous snake in North America. Several snakes have similar markings, but coral snakes have red bands sandwiched between yellow or white bands. ...