The smooth green snake might look slightly intimidating, with its bright green shade, but that’s where the intimidation factor stops. The camouflage works very well in grasslands and tree leaves. This snake is quite common in its region, but despite being diurnal in nature, it is still quite rare to spot it out in the wild. The texture is what helps the snake to climb trees. The latter is what sets it apart from the smooth green snake, which has, just as the name suggests, untextured and smooth scales. You are more likely to find the rough green snake climbing or dangling from trees in southern territories of New Jersey, camouflaged well with its bright green color and slightly textured scales. This snake is the most common one that wild animal control are called to remove from residential and commercial properties, with old buildings and sheds offering everything the snake needs to hibernate through the cold winter. They will also eat larvae of moths and butterflies, ants, fly larva, snails, and various other bugs and insects. Their diet is made up of mostly arthropods with soft bodies, including grasshoppers and crickets, butterflies, moths, and spiders. Garter snakes don't generally move far from a body of water, and they prefer to live in habitats that offer low-growing vegetation for protection and cover. It won’t constrict its food, instead relying on a strike approach - so the prey won't be any larger than what the snake can manage and successfully overcome. It will also branch out into worms, slugs, snails, caterpillars, moths, and ants. This snake species enjoys a variety of insects as food, including spiders and insect larvae. It is a fast, shy, and non-aggressive snake species that lays up to 6 eggs, up to twice per year, usually in the later part of summer and beginning part of fall. The smooth earth snake is commonly found in habitats that are damp and preferably close to bodies of water - edges of lakes, rivers and streams towards the edges of forest or wooded areas and in moist open, grassy areas. The northernmost part of the state is where the snake is usually sighted, in old farmlands, woodlands, fields, rocky areas, and berry thickets.Īlthough this snake will use its tail like a rattlesnake, vibrating it from side to side to ward off predators, it is actually missing the vital rattle part, although it can sound very similar when the tail hits the ground or plants/vegetation around it. The copperhead, also known as eastern or northern copperhead, is a species of special concern in the state of New Jersey, and sightings are said to be rather rare. The corn snake is not venomous, however, and it has a pretty amicable temper although will bite when cornered. ![]() Wild red corn snakes are often mistaken for the venomous copperhead and killed because of it. ![]() This has led to vanity breeding, with certain colourations bred together to create corn snakes that mimic the markings or colourations of other snakes, including the copperhead. It is Southern New Jersey that you may encounter the common corn snake, also known as the red corn snake, which is such a quiet and placid snake species that it has become the most common beginner snake to keep in captivity. It also finds plenty of food underground, too - earthworms are the number one thing on the menu, but slugs and snails are also snapped up. The body blends in well, with its brown, tan, or gray colouration, often adorned with darker spots and pale patches. The brown snake actually spends a great deal of its time underground, or burrowing beneath loose ground covering, such as leaf litter. ![]() You will find the brown snake in a wide assortment of habitat types across New Jersey, and it is not uncommon for property owners to turn over a pile of rocks and find this small but stout species hiding beneath it.
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