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| Description: |
A small snake 7" to 12". Head cap dark brown to black with a white or
cream collar 1 to 2 scales wide. Scales smooth. Tan to light brown in
body coloration. Whitish below with pink or orange stripe on belly. |
| Similar Species: |
Can be distinguished from other snakes with black heads by a white ring that borders the black. |
| Venom: |
Venom is delivered to prey via enlarged, grooved teeth in the rear upper jaw (not considered to be dangerous to humans). |
| Habitat: |
Chiefly inhabits riparian with sycamore, oak and walnut trees.
Attracted to stream bottoms and stream bottoms. Occurring at lower
elevation in grassland and scrub.
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| Behavior: |
Occasionally nocturnal. Found beneath rocks, logs, boards, dead
yuccas, agave and other plant debris. |
| Hibernation: |
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| Reproduction: |
Lays a clutch of 1-3 eggs. |
| Diet: |
Their diet consists spiders scorpions centipedes, crickets,
grasshoppers, millipedes. and insect larva. |
Authored by: Garth Teitjen
