Brown Florida Garden Snake

The same applies to ringneck snakes and bimini blind snakes which you can find in gardens and yards.

Brown florida garden snake. The florida banded water snake for example is common near bodies of water and is entirely harmless. Water moccasins arent the only aquatic snake in florida. Unlike garter snakes water snakes are relatively boring in color and appearance brown with some darker colors mostly. This species can reach a maximum length of 12 inches 305 centimeters.

Ponds rivers and streams youre likely to see water snakes. How to identify garden snakes by penelope lane warning. Florida snakes visual identification. Above are four different varieties of garter snakes one might encounter in the garden photos wikipedia closely related to garter snakes are water snakes nerodia species and these are also found frequently in gardens particularly in the northeastern us.

The florida brown snake is one of the smallest species of the genus storeria bartlett and bartlett 2003. Some are single uniform colors. Scientific name storeria dekayi. Common name red.

Florida snake identification key common garter snake. Common name dekays brown snake. In florida they inhabit almost the entire state including the florida keys. Dekays brown snake storeria dekayi.

Family solid toothed rear fanged. During times of. The florida brown snake lives in coastal areas mainly in georgia and florida. Distribution southeast northeast midwest south canada.

The garter snake is often confused with garden snake although this is a name mistake more than anything else. Florida brown snakes also have a brown back whitish belly with dark spots on the side of each belly scale and rigged posterior back side and side scales florida natural areas inventory 2001. Only trained professionals should capture wild snakes as many species are venomous and dangerous. Here is a quick look at most of floridas snakes by pattern.

Garden snakes are a commonly used term associated with the agile harmless snakes often discovered in a backyard garden. Different species of snake can often be distinguished by their characteristic color patterns. One of the most common snakes of florida you might spot these in highly populated areas usually green or brown in colour with stripes of a pale colour running down the length of it. Thamnophis sirtalis linnaeus 1766 the following will separate the two garter snakes found in floridaif you are unable to distinguish between them based on the characteristics in the key below you probably can do so using the geographic location alone.

This snake species is also called a garter snake they can range in color and size and be aggressive or docile. Number of offspring 13. This species of snake prefers to live near bodies. They are commonly spotted among loose leaf litter and other plant debris as well as under rocks and dead trees and can even be seen in peoples yards or gardens from time to time.

Red bellied snake storeria occipitomaculata. Photo by todd pierson.