big picture agriculture: Agriculture News September 19, 2011

... up the Boulder Creek canyon I had to swerve to avoid two large garter snakes and on our Sunday hike, my husband, who was a zoology undergrad, identified a young Central Plains Milk Snake (above photo) on the trail. Continue reading

Lampropeltis triangulum (Milk Snake)

Lampropeltis triangulum (Milk Snake, Pale Milk Snake, Scarlet Kingsnake, Tropical Milksnake) ... Great Plains Nature Center, Wichita, 69 pp. ... A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians, Eastern and Central North America, Third Edition. .... Reevaluation of the extinct kingsnake Lampropeltis intermedius Brattstrom (Colubridae) with comments on the ancestry of Lampropeltis triangulum Herpetological Natural History 2 (2): 83-88; Patterns of snake evolution suggested by their proteins: ... Continue reading

Lampropeltis triangulum elapsoides (Milk Snake)

Lampropeltis triangulum elapsoides (Milk Snake, Scarlet Kingsnake) ... Scarlet Kingsnakes inhabit flatwood pine forests in the Coastal Plain and much of the Piedmont. Deforestation has significantly reduced their numbers in the Coastal Plain. They are found .... A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians, Eastern and Central North America, Third Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston ... Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication, no. 17. Carnegie Museum of Natural ... Continue reading

Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum (Eastern Milk Snake)

Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum (Eastern Milk Snake, Milk Snake) ... A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians, Eastern and Central North America, Third Edition. ... Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication, no. 17. Continue reading