This snake feeds on small mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fishes. Pueblan milk snake According to the American Museum of Natural History, Pueblan milk snakes ( Lampropeltis triangulum campbelli) are commonly confused with coral snakes.
About eight to 20 eggs are deposited by the female in June usually in a rotten log, stump or leaf litter. When disturbed, it will vibrate the tail rapidly, hiss and strike. The milksnake kills prey by constriction. This snake overwinters in small mammal burrows. This reptile lives in fields, woodlands, rocky hillsides and river bottoms. The milksnake may be found statewide in Illinois. In central Illinois, the ranges of the two subspecies overlap with intergrades between the subspecies showing a combination of elongated or collar blotch patterns and from 21-38 body blotches that can be brown or orange. The blotches are red or orange in adults. It averages about 21 to 28 inches in length with a blotch that ends as a collar shape right behind the head and 19-26 larger blotches on the body. The red milk snake is found in the southern one-third of Illinois. This species is found in the northern one-third of Illinois. The eastern milksnake averages 24 to 43 inches in length, has smooth scales, a y- or v-shaped mark at the back of the head, large blotches (brown with black borders) on a gray or white back alternating with small blotches (33-46) on the sides and a head about the same width as the neck. Two subspecies of the milksnake are found in Illinois, the eastern milksnake ( Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum) and the red milksnake ( Lampropeltis triangulum syspila).
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Conservation Inclusive Construction and Development Archive (CICADA) Description: A slender, medium-sized, shiny snake (24.0 to 36.0 inches in length for Eastern 21.0 to 28.0 for Red 14.0 to 20.0 for Scarlet Kingsnake) with bright colors or strong patterns.Learn more about reptile and amphibian conservation and what you can do to help these species on our Reptile and Amphibian Stewardship page. Additional detail about legal protection for species at risk in Ontario is available on our Legal Protection page.
The species’ status was last confirmed in 2010. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has not assessed the global status of the milksnake. The habitat of this species is further protected in Ontario by the Provincial Policy Statement under the Planning Act. These acts offer protection to individuals and their habitat. The species has also been designated as a Specially Protected Reptile under the Ontario Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act. Milksnakes are listed as of Special Concern under the federal Species at Risk Act. The milksnake was listed as Special Concern under the Ontario Endangered Species Act, 2007. The eastern milksnake’s status was delisted from being a species at risk in Ontario in 2016. Juveniles of these and other species look very similar and can be very difficult to differentiate. This behaviour, combined with the snake’s blotchy patterning, causes many people to mistake it for a rattlesnake. When threatened, the milksnake vibrates its tail and, especially when it comes into contact with dry vegetation, makes a buzzing or “rattling” sound. The eastern Massasauga is very thick bodied compared with the long, narrow milksnake and has a rattle on a blunt tail, a vertical pupil and a triangular head. The eastern hog-nosed snake has a distinct upturned nose. Eastern foxsnakes have a yellow to light brown body with brown blotches that are not outlined in black (although the blotches of juvenile foxsnakes can have dark edges). The northern watersnake’s patterning consists of horizontal banding rather than blotches and is very faint on a much darker body. The milksnake may be confused with the northern watersnake, eastern foxsnake, eastern hog-nosed snake and eastern Massasauga. Northern Ecosystems and Nature-based Climate Solutions.
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