What is a milk snake?

Snake of milk, lampypropeltis triangulum is a type of snake found in a wide range of habitats and geographical areas. In the United States, milk snakes generally range from 24 to 36 inches (about 60.96 to 91.44 cm), although they can reach up to 52 inches (about 132 cm); Milk snakes found in other parts of the world generally range from 12 to 69 inches (about 30.48 to 175.26 cm), while the longest snakes usually occur in neotropic areas. The color pattern is characteristic of a snake of milk. His body is usually light gray or tanned with large rust, brown, yellow, orange, red or white stain closed black or color boundary on the back. Smaller stains of the same color line of its sides and its abdomen are covered with an irregular pattern of black and white control. As the story continues, this particular snake would drink milk and nursing mothers until Doy were dry. Although the story is not true, the name is stuck.

snake milk habitat varies and usually include deciduous and coniferous forest edges, tropical forests of hardwood, streams, marshes, forests, prairies, savannas, rocky hills, agricultural areas and suburban areas. Snakes can occupy areas as low as sea levels and up to 8,000 feet (about 2.4 km). You can find them in most areas east of the rocky mountains in the United States; in the south-central Ontario, southeast Ontario and southwestern Quebec in Canada; And in non -giving up areas of Mexico and Central America.

Milk snake is covered with smooth scales, giving it a typically glossy or shiny look. Its exact colors depend on which of the 25 known subspecies is, and men and women do not have the color of sexual dimorphism. The appearance of a snake milk can sometimes be similar to the appearance of a poisonous cop's head on the head on the head or coral snake, but a milk snake. This adaptation can sometimes protect the snake from predators.

males and womenIn the spring, they are likely to join before emerging from their hibernation neighborhoods. The woman usually lies anywhere from two to 24 eggs in the spring or early summer and usually stores them under the rocks, in rotting logs, in small mammals, under piles of debris or in rotting vegetation. After storing eggs, parents do not play any other role in raising their young people, because the eggs should naturally incubate in warm and humid areas that women choose for them. In general, eggs must be incubated for 28 to 39 days before hatching.

It seems that newly hatched milk snakes feed mainly on other young snakes. Snake milk is usually clearly colored when they are young, and their color tends to duplicate age. At the age of three to four years, most of the milk will achieve maturity. Their full life expectancy is uncertain.

The main source of food for adult snake is small rodents such as mice, rats and oxen. In this way, snakes of milk can benefit people because they tend to kill rodents who are hidingaround the barn and garbage. Sometimes they eat birds, bird eggs, frogs, fish, insects, earthworms, slugs, lizards, other snakes and snake eggs. Milk snakes kill their prey with narrowing and then swallow them all.

As a primary night animal, people are rarely seen by people during the day. Although they do not avoid areas occupied by people, milk snakes are usually hidden from supervision, occupying areas under the rocks, protocols, garbage or other coverage. Milk snakes are lonely animals and are rarely observed in groups with the exception of hibernation.

Animals such as coyotes, skunnes, foxes and raccoons hunt snakes of milk. As a protective mechanism, the milk snakes vibrate tails to sound flies like rattles. For this reason, people sometimes mistaken harmless milk snakes for poisonous rattles and kill them. Snakes of milk are generally not a very aggressive animal, but they tend to bite when handling or threatening.