Garter snake baby king snake georgia. The misdemeanor offense is punishable by up to a year in jail and a. Gopher snake adult left and baby right pine snake. Brown 1901 mexican milk snake lampropeltis annulata kennicott 1860 california kingsnake lampropeltis californiae blainville 1835 prairie kingsnake lampropeltis calligaster.
King snakes are nonvenomous snakes that belong to the lampropeltis genus. Kingsnake species and subspecies include listed here alphabetically by specific and subspecific name. The crotalidae or pit viper and the elapidae.
Many species and subspecies range across much of the continent. Currently the state hosts approximately forty species. A snake that looks very similar to the garter or eastern garter snake is the queen snake a dark colored snake with stripes of white or cream only growing to around 25 inches long.
Formal numbers for georgia snakes tend to change as snake taxonomy changes. King snakes have a more broad diet that includes lizards and other snakes sometimes. A subspecies of the milk snake the scarlet king snake also lives in georgia.
The garden snake moniker stems from how frequently garter snakes are found in gardens and yards where they prosper amid moist soil conditions and rich food. King snakes are so named because they eat other snakes including venomous species. Included in the family of pit vipers are.
Endemic to north and central america species in the genus thamnophis can be found from the subarctic plains of canada to costa ricathe common garter snake thamnophis sirtalis is the state reptile of massachusettsthe length of garter snakes varies from 46 to 137cm 18. The milk snake mole king snake and eastern king snake. Garter snake is a common name for the generally harmless small to medium sized snakes belonging to the genus thamnophis.
Georgia geography roughly divided into he coastal plain the piedmont and the northern mountain areas means that not all georgia snakes live in every environment. Brown snake vs juvenile copperhead. Three king snakes live in georgia.
The garter snakes thamnophis belong to the collective category of harmless effectively non venomous north american snakes also often referred to as garden snakes. There are two types of venomous snakes in georgia. Of the 46 species of snakes in georgia only six are venomous.
This is a very picky snake and requires a very specific habitat there must be clean fresh running water such as a stream and when the snake is active and breeding the temperature of the water must. King snakes are smaller than gopher snakes but are still relatively large for north american snakes and are also among the most colorful and striking of all the american snakes.