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Worm snake
Carphophis amoenus
36.0536, -86.8058
Field Notes
Description:
Worm snakes are small, shiny, brown snakes with pink or whitish bellies. Their light belly coloration extends partially up onto their sides. Worm snakes have sharp points on their tails and very small heads used for burrowing after insects and earthworms.
Worm snakes are fossorial snakes, and spend the vast majority of their time buried in loose, rocky soil, or under forest leaf litter. They are abundant within their range, but rarely seen due to their secretive nature.
Feeding/Diet: Worm snakes are active mostly at night and are common in damp woodlands where they feed primarily on earthworms.
Habitat/Range: . They are often found in rotting logs, but may burrow deep into the soil during hot, dry spells
Reproduction: Worm snakes lay 1–8 eggs during early summer.
Miscellaneous: Worm snakes never bite, but are usually very “wiggly” when held in the hand.
Habitat:
Radnor Lake state park, Tennessee.
Notes:
I found this guy under a rock close to the lake. I tried to pick him up for a closer look but he managed to slither out of my hands & vanish into the leaf litter!
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