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Hey, my first introduction to milk snakes came when I was researching possible finds for my trip to Wisconsin. The pic on the website (google search wisconsin herp atlas- great page!) had a charcoal corn snake coloured animal. I was under the assumption that milks were all relatively tricoloured (morphs an exception of course).

Was this a bad picture or am I clueless?
Ian

Depends on which milks you are looking at. The NA Lampropeltis triangulum species are not tri-colored and are some very attractive snakes.

Here is a L.t.triangulum, eastern milk,...

and here is a L.t.triangulum X syspila (red milk) natural intergrade from KY...

There are lots of other nice looking milks as well, such as the pale milk, louisiana milk, red milk, and coastal plains milk.

Do a search on the NA milks, I like them better than the SA milks. But that is just my preference.
Brian

>>Hey, my first introduction to milk snakes came when I was researching possible finds for my trip to Wisconsin. The pic on the website (google search wisconsin herp atlas- great page!) had a charcoal corn snake coloured animal. I was under the assumption that milks were all relatively tricoloured (morphs an exception of course).
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>>Was this a bad picture or am I clueless?
>>Ian

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RATS
1.0 Corn snake "Warpath" (KY locale)
0.0.1 Corn snake (KY locale)
1.0 Black rat snake "Havok" (KY locale)
1.1 Black rat snakes "Reaper and Mystique" (MO locale)
1.0 Albino Black rat snake "Malakai" (Dwight Good stock)
1.0 Everglades rat snake "Deadpool" (Dwight Good stock)
0.1 Greenish rat snake "Rogue" (Dwight Good stock)
0.0.1 Great plains rat snake (TX locale)
1.0 Grey rat snake "Punisher" (White oak phase)(Dwight Good stock)

Good luck and Happy Herping
Brian

There are tri-colored N.A. milks. Annulata and celaenops are.
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Steve W.

Thanks guys, it was an eastern milk L.t.triangulum that I was seeing.