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Central Plains Milksnake

Lampropeltis triangulum gentilis

Photo by wrathraptor
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40.1083, -104.52

Field Notes

Description:

Adult male Central Plains Milksnake. Quite harmless, I assure you.

Habitat:

Semi-arid grasslands, shrublands, plains, dry sandy soil, predominant vegetation: prairie grasses, banana yucca, juniper, sagebrush

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Comments (5)

What a gorgeous spotting! <3 <3 <3! Please be sure to add this to the Snakes of the United States – CSC mission to help with their citizen science project! http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/12027210
Wrathraptor - thank you for education. I figured this was the group if ever, who could answer that question. An updated saying on how to tell poisonous Coral Snakes from all imitators (In North America Only).... "Red touch yellow, kill a fellow. Red touch black, safe for Jack (or venom lack).
This is true... in North America ONLY! In other parts of the world, this is definitely NOT the case.
A saying on how to tell poisonous Coral Snakes from all imitators.... "Red touch yellow, kill a fellow. Red touch black, safe for Jack (or venom lack). I would like to hear from this group if this is true. I'm kind of leery of all snakes regardless anyway.

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PublishedJune 11, 2011

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