< Back | Name: | Smooth Earth Snake | | Family: | Woodland Snakes | | Scientific Name:
| Virginia valeriae | | Description: | Smooth or weakly keeled scales. A plain- colored snake, body is brown, gray or red-brown. Belly is white, cream-colored or light yellow. Young resemble adults. Adults 7-10 inches in length. | | Range: | Ozark Plateau, Ouachita Mountains and Coastal Plain. Absent from Crowley’s Ridge and Mississippi Delta. | | Habits and Habitat: | This small snake is active from April-October in moist forests with ample rocks, logs or leaf litter to hide under. It breeds in spring or fall and gives live birth in late summer to 2-14 young. Like many other small woodland snakes, it eats earthworms, slugs and soft-bodied insects. Much of this snake’s former habitat has been converted to other uses for human activities. |
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Click Photo to Enlarge Suzanne Collins |
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