Hi All, I checked my first clutch of 2012 milksnake eggs again this afternoon & saw the fresh hatched neonates crawling thru the spaghnum moss, always a welcome sight. This clutch of 7 eggs, laid May 13, all hatched today, 7 out of 7, I can't complain, some are perfect banded, some have a slight mismark, but thats generally how most milksnakes are, right? These New Mexico milksnakes are all from wild-caught snakes that I personally collected on trips from the last 10+ years to that area, sometimes accompanied with friends Mike Geiger, Damon Salceies & Chance Baugher. I have been going to the Sanderson, Terrell county, TX area every year since 1989 & have observed at least 40 or more alterna there in the wild, yet only 3 celanops during that same time period, to give a perspective on just how hard milksnakes are, at least in my searching experiance there, to find. I still have all 3 wc snakes, 1.2, and both females laid eggs this year.
Here is the wild-caught male celaenops from there:
Here is the wild-caught celaenops female that produced todays clutch:
And here is a quick shot of todays neonates by their eggs...
