On sunday I found a rare find at my aunt and uncles farm. While I have seen fox snakes dead on the road I have never seen one alive in my 40 yrs in Iowa, I have found hundreds of garters, dekays, bulls, and water snakes, even a few hognose. My aunt was pulling weeds and I was telling her and my uncle about how I had seen several fox snakes hit on the roadside, when all of a sudden she screams "ahhh there's a snake right there". So I went over expecting to see a garter or a bull, but it was this 3ft fox snake, How ironic!!!!
Then on monday night I was raking out some compost in my garden right next to my garden pond and something caught my eye moving by my feet, and there was this male garter, he doesn't have much red, but he has some interesting blue shades and marks on his belly. Both were photographed and the fox released, tonight I will be releasing the garter too, as I don't really need him in my breeding program, if it would have been an adult female I might have considered hitting my male anerythristic red-sided to her.
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Jeff Benfer
1.0 cinnamon pastel Python regius
1.1 pastel Python regius
1.1 mojave Python regius
0.3 normal Python regius
1.3 Terrapene carolina thriunguis
2.3 Terrapene carolina carolina
4.1 Kinosternon baurii
1.1 Malaclemys terrapin terrapin
2.2 double het albino and anerythristicThamnophis sirtalis parietalis
1.0 anerythristic Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis
2.3 Iowa snow Thamnophis radix
0.2 het Christmas albino Thamnophis radix
1.1 double het cherry erythristic, albino Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 melanistic Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
2.0 66% het snow Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 triple heterozygous for amelanistic,carmel, and stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 anerythristic motley Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 butter p.h. stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 carmel stripe p.h. amel Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 amelanistic p.h. carmel,stripe Pantherophis guttatus
