Saturday, March 12, 2011

Corn Snake

Corn Snake (Elaphe guttata):  Also called the "red rat snake".  A very common snake (to 4 feet) in southern Georgia, the corn snake is a colorful animal with red, black-bordered blotches on an orange background.  The belly scales possess a bold, checkerboard or "piano key" pattern.  This attractive snake is a muscular constrictor very capable of climbing high in search of bird nests.  It often crosses roads at night during the summer.  Prey includes rats, mice, birds, and their eggs.  Young corn snakes eat lizards.

Scarlet Kingsnake

he scarlet kingsnake is considered a full species, Lampropeltis elapsoides, by many herpetologists.
Considered one of the most challenging kingsnakes to keep because of its small size and the difficulty of finding proper food, scarlet kingsnakes are also notorious escape artists. Provide a 10-gallon terrarium with a locking, very secure lid and a substrate of anything from aspen to indoor-outdoor carpeting. Some keepers suggest that a 20-gallon vertical terrarium with the lid at the top may be necessary to prevent escapes. The terrarium must stay fairly moist, so give water in a wide, shallow bowl. These are nervous snakes that do not like bright lights and need several hiding places in the terrarium. Room temperatures between 75 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit are adequate, with a small drop at night. An undertank heating pad is not necessary, and basking lights may be harmful.

Eastern Indigo Snake

Eastern Indigo Snake (Drymarchon couperi):  This snake is federally protected by the Endangered Species Act.  The largest snake in the United States, reaching up to 8.6 feet in length, and 10 lbs. in weight.  This bluish-black snake often has some orange-red pigment on the chin and neck.  They frequently shelter in tortoise burrows, and have territories encompassing hundreds of acres.  Indigo snakes are docile, virtually never biting people, but are powerful predators known to consume small turtles, rats, frogs, cottonmouths, and rattlesnakes.

Mud Snake

The Mud Snake is a fairly long snake, growing to be between 38 and 80 inches long. It is shiny blueish-black in color with dark pink or red bars across its belly that cross onto its sides. Unlike some other snakes, the mud snake has smooth scales and a pointed, short tail compared to its body.

This snake is active at night, especially after heavy rains. It lives in swampy lake areas, flooded plains, or at the bottom of mud-filled streams. They are common throughout the southeastern USA, but like to be left alone and are rarely seen. During the day the snake hides under wet leaves or in moist wood. Mud snakes spend the winters buried in soil and mud until the warmer weather returns. They eat tadpoles, frogs, and fish--but their favorite food is a small eel-like salamander called a siren. The large teeth at the back of the upper jaw help the mud snake grab and kill its prey

Banded Water Snake

Banded Water Snake (Nerodia fasciata):  A snake with a faint banded pattern over a dark background of black, brown, or reddish.  Sometimes called  "water bandits", these are very abundant snakes in this area, occurring in grassy ditches, swamps, ponds, streams, and rivers.  They swim well and often dive underwater.  Frogs and fish are their primary prey.  These snakes are ill-tempered and bite if handled.

snakes catogory

Brown Water Snake (Nerodia taxispilota):  
A large (to 4 feet), chunky, brown, patterned snake with eyes almost on top of its' head.  These fish-eaters climb well, and are commonly seen basking on tree branches hanging above the Canoochee and Ogeechee Rivers.  Bites only if molested, swims underwater rapidly to escape.

snakes

Snakes are possibly the most misunderstood, and most naturally hated living things on the planet. From the two thousand odd kinds of reptiles in the world, only 20% can give you a poisonous bite. The general population have an instinctive fear of snakes leading back for thousands of years. Maybe it came into existence as a survival instinct, when there was no manner of assessing if a snake was poisonous or merely harmless.

snakes is mainly belong three category. those are......
poison-less snakes
medium  poisonous snakes
poisonous snakes
 
poisoneless snakes
 
Brown Water Snake 
Banded Water Snake 
Eastern Indigo Snake 
Mud Snake
Scarlet Kingsnake
Scarlet Snake 
Corn Snake
Eastern Kingsnake
Eastern Coachwhip
Black Racer
Rough Green Snake
Eastern Hognose Snake
Ringneck Snake
Redbelly snake 
Eastern Garter Snake
Eastern Ribbon Snake