![]() ![]() Occasionally it may also be green or orange instead of yellow. Juveniles might be confused with adults of the Texas brownsnake. The yellow rat snake has a mustard yellow body with thin brown or black stripes along its length. Desert it is a dark brown or black snake with narrower bands of yellow. These snakes are active in the day time and eat small rodents, lizards and other small snakes. Another snake which is black in colour with yellow stripes is the Texas Patchnose snake which averages around 3 feet in length. The belly of the orange-striped ribbonsnakes has no spots or other markings and is cream to bluish in color. This toad is very common in Arizona and New Mexico and just as the Cane Toad has. The stripes on these snakes can also be orange or red and they can have a varied amount of stripes on their body. The Texas gartersnake has white upper labials with distinct vertical black marks between each scale the area in front of and behind the eye is light colored (not white). All variations have dark blotches on the body that turn into rings near the tail. Coloration is highly variable and can be greenish-gray, olive green, greenish-brown, light brown, or yellow. The orange-striped ribbonsnake has white along scales of the upper jaw with no markings on them and a distinct vertical white bar in front of the eye preceded by a distinct black mark. Prairie Rattlesnake Crotalus viridis Identifying Characteristics: Adults typically range between 3.3 and 5 feet in length. Outside suburban areas, these juvenile snakes face common enemies such as foxes and raccoons. ![]() A much easier way to distinguish between these two snakes is to carefully examine the side of the head. Some of the most common predators of juvenile Eastern Ratsnakes are cats as these snakes are commonly found around the house. The lateral stripe in the Texas gartersnake is on the second and third scale rows. The only similar species is the Texas gartersnake, which also has a mid-dorsal yellow stripe and is lateral stripe on each side of the body. Orange-striped ribbonsnakes are thin-bodied, moderately sized snakes with distinctly keeled scales that can be distinguished from all other snakes in the region by a combination of a dark background color, a very distinct uninterrupted yellow or orange stripe extending from the neck to the tip of the tail, and a well-defined yellow, bluish, or white stripe on the third and fourth scale rows, also extending the full length of the body and tail. ![]()
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