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Found in Central Il.The pics dont show the green well.The head is green/copper colored.It looks like it will shed soon.Very aggressive and a musker.It almost has the colors of a prairie kingsnake except with a checkered belly and a ratsnake head.It does not have the color of any black rat Ive ever seen.tyhanks for your responses.
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If lead paint is so deadly why do they make it so delicious?
Looks like a cross between pituophis and a texas rat.
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>>Looks like a cross between pituophis and a texas rat.
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>>"Life without risk is to merely exist."
I found this herping in the middle of nowhere in central Il.
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If lead paint is so deadly why do they make it so delicious?
Western Fox Snake "Elaphe vulpina"
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n/p
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"
Western Fox Snake, Guy.
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Regards, Bill McGighan
/agree with everyone about w. fox snake
on a side note, when i was in high school i worked in target in bolingbrook, IL and found a hatchling fox snake in the office, just cruising across the floor. they look like anery corn snakes as babies, gray and brownish.
sadly he wouldn't eat and died in about a week.
Yeah, that's a fox snake. Here's an eastern I found in Ohio several years ago:
Third Eye
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