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Jeff Schofield
at Sun Nov 21 22:46:06 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jeff Schofield ]
Joe, milks are variable in pattern alot more than in body type. Head shape is a much better marker than any pattern anomaly. Base ground color is generally the soil color which varies from locale to locale. Bright orange base color ones come from the Jersey area and I found a bright straw color one from a salt marsh before too. Adults hold red in the bands better in the south and they tend to go maroon in the appalachians. In the north orange specks show up in the ground color for some reason.....Band width, depth, count, and color work together like a fingerprint but only to those who have seen alot of snakes. I hope this gives you a better idea how I was able to guess the locale, there was once a time where I could guess the locale of most any snake to within 25 miles or so, but not seeing them posted as common here the skills do get lost a bit. Anyways, rambled enough.
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