What is a garter snake?

Garter snake is one of the different snakes of the genus Thamnphis. On average, the garters are long between two and five feet and can be gray, green, yellow, brown or black, with stripes that run longitudinally over their bodies. Garter snakes are among the most common snakes in North America, with a natural habitat that ranges from Central America to Canada. Although garter snakes are often considered non -resistant, they actually produce a small amount of a slight poison that is basically harmless to people. Garter snakes are predators, but also hunt them with a wide range of other species, including larger snakes, birds of prey, raccoon, badger and domestic cats. Generally, the garter snake is carnivore, rather ate insects, amphibians, rodents, fish, small reptiles and occasionally, sometimes, eggs. Some larger types of snake garters can be able to hunt more prey, such as small poultry. Garter snakes do not destroy their prey like Boas; Instead, they stunned prey or rarely kill her before her. Prey is inIt has been swallowed all over and often alive.

Many varieties of garter snakes hibernation during the cold months of the year, especially those garters living in Canada and northern United States. These snakes increase food intake during the second part of the summer to prepare for hibernation. Then they migrate on a designated hibernation day, where they spend winter with hundreds of other snakes. When warmer weather arrives, the temperature inside the lair is slowly rising and the garts slowly wake up themselves, which are not fully out of hibernation for two weeks or more. In some types of snake garters, the period of hibernation will stimulate mating in the snakes.

Garter snakes usually combine in the spring and sometimes in the autumn, while women store sperm until spring in case they cannot connect. Male garter snakes are based on hibernation in front of women so that they can be ready to connect when women finally emerge from the lair. Female garters are born litter ŽThe young, usually in the late summer months.

While some people see garter snakes like pests who attack their cellars and gardens, others hold garters like pets. Due to their opportunistic habits of feeding and a relatively quiet constitution, garters make good pets for children or people who have never left the snakes before. In captivity, garter snakes often survive a diet consisting of slugs, frozen or fresh fish, leeches and earthworms. They gradually adapt to people to treat them.