Milk snakes
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The milk snake is also a native snake in the United States, and of course it has become a breeding object for American snake operators. It is also a very popular species in the pet snake market, and the king snake and the corn snake form an iron triangle of the snake family, that is, the yellow-jawed snake family, which is an indispensable and important role in the pet market. Strictly speaking, these species of migratory snakes are beneficial to humans.
Basic Information
Milksnake
The scientific name is Lampropeltistriangulum
The body length is 80-160 cm in length
Moderate temperature 20-30 degrees Celsius
The milk snake is also a native snake in the United States, and of course it has become a breeding object for American snake operators. It is also a very popular species in the pet snake market, and the king snake and the corn snake form an iron triangle of the snake family, that is, the yellow-jawed snake family, which is an indispensable and important role in the pet market. Strictly speaking, these species of migratory snakes are beneficial to humans because they can control rat populations and reduce crop losses.
color
The vast majority of milk snakes form their basic body color in black, white and red, but there are differences in the arrangement and combination, and it is a bit difficult to clearly identify. The relative variety of milk snakes (9 photos) is different from the other two types of migratory snakes is that the wild individuals of the milk snake itself have many different body color differences, and each body color is also a subspecies, so there are more than 40 subspecies of milk snakes, and the general scholars are more inclined to summarize the subspecies by regional differences, so that there are at least 25 species, and the milk snake is actually a relative of the king snake, so it is sometimes easy to confuse with the king snake.
class
Guatemalan milk snake
GuatemalanMilkSnake
L.t.abnorma is distributed in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras.
Louisiana's milk serpent
LouisianaMilkSnake
L.t. amara is found in the United States between Louisiana and Texas.
Colombian milk snake
AndeanMilkSnake
L.t.andesiana distribution in Colombia.
Mexican milk snake
MexicanMilkSnake
L.t. annulata is found in Texas and Mexico.
Highland milk snake
JaliscoMilkSnake
L.t. arcifera is found in the southern highlands of Mexico
Milky snake on the shore
Blanchard‘sMilkSnake
L.t. blanchardi is distributed on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
Berbla milk snake
PueblanMilkSnake
L.t.campbelli is found in the Berbla region of Mexico.
New Mexico Milk Snake
NewMexicoMilkSnake
L.t. celaenops is distributed in Texas and New Mexico, USA.
Conan Milk Snake
Conant‘sMilkSnake
L.t. conanti is distributed in southern Mexico.
Dixon Milk Snake
Dixon‘sMilkSnake
L.t. dixoni is found in eastern Mexico.
Scarlet King Snake
ScarletKingsnake
L.t. elapsoides is distributed in Virginia, Florida, and Mississippi in the United States.
Black Milk Snake
BlackMilkSnake
L.t.gaigeae is found in the mountainous regions of Costa Rica and Panama.
Prairie milk snake
netCentralPlainsMilkSn
L.t. gentilis is distributed in the states between Texas and Nebraska in the United States.
Honduran milk snake
HonduranMilkSnake
L.t. hondurensis is distributed in the rainforests of Honduras and Nicaragua.
Ecuadorian milk snake
EcuadorianMilkSnake
L.t. micropholis is distributed in Ecuador, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela.
White-faced milk snake
PaleMilkSnake
L.t.multistrata is distributed in the states between Montana and Colorado in the United States.
Nelson Milk Snake
Nelson‘sMilkSnake
L.t.nelsoni is distributed in central Mexico.
The Pacific milk snake is highly venomous
PacificMilkSnake
L.t. oligozona is distributed on the west coast of Mexico and Guatemala.
Atlantic milk snake
AtlanticMilkSnake
L.t. polyzona is distributed on the west coast of Mexico.
Sina Milk Snake
SinaloanMilkSnake
L.t. sinaloae is distributed in the Mexican state of Sinaloa and surrounding states.
Smith Milk Snake
Smith‘sMilkSnake
L. tsmithi is found in the north-central plains of Mexico.
Stewart's Milk Snake
Stuart‘sMilkSnake
L.t.stuarti is distributed in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua.
Red Milk Snake
RedMilkSnake
L.t.syspila is found in the states between Kansas and Kentucky in the United States.
Utah Milk Snake
UtahMilkSnake
L.t.taylori is found in Utah, Arizona, and Colorado in the United States.
Eastern Milk Snake
EasternMilkSnake
L. ttriangulum is found in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.
Among so many subspecies, the best-selling ones on the market are, of course, the Nelson milk snake with the most body color variation, the Berbla milk snake and the Honduran milk snake, which is also the most expensive milk snake. The Sina Milk Snake is a branch that has emerged in recent years, and is very similar to the Nelson Milk Snake, and often crossbreeds in the wild, so it is sometimes quite difficult to distinguish. Although the milk snake is the same relative of the king snake, the scarlet king snake actually belongs to the milk snake genus, but it is called the king snake, which is also a relatively rare phenomenon. The recently bred spotted Nelson and Sina snakes, and even the all-red Sina snake, which is completely unmarked, have opened up a new dimension for the milk snake.
Milk snake is a popular snake on the market (in addition to the king snake and corn snake, they are both called toy snakes), the reason why it is called milk snake, because this snake often appears in the cowshed, people are mistaken for drinking milk, in fact, it is eating the rats in the cowshed. Although the vast majority of milk snakes are based on red, yellow and black as the basic body color, only in the order of arrangement, but due to the extremely wide distribution area, the species in different regions will be more or less different in body color, so in biology to regional differences as the standard.
Milk snakes are raised in a similar way to king snakes and corn snakes, as long as there is a space the size of a shoebox, it is enough to accommodate a small snake. Add a basin of water, and a nest on it, the substrate is very suitable for sawdust or newspaper tearing strips, and in winter you can add a warming pad at the bottom of the breeding tank to maintain the appropriate temperature. Changing the substrate and feeding once a week, daily care is relatively simple. The food is mainly mice, and the size is the same as the thickest size of the snake's body.
The reproduction of milk snakes is not difficult, it does not necessarily need to go through the hibernation stage, the larvae can mature and start breeding after about two years of breeding, and the female snake can lay 10-15 eggs at a time, and most of them are laid in the rock crevices or warm and moist places under the pile of rotten wood in the wild; In an artificial environment, an oviposition box can be prepared, which is covered with moist water moss, and the milk snake will lay eggs in it, and the eggs can hatch in about 45 days. The smaller subspecies can reach adulthood in about 2 years, the larger subspecies will take more than 3 or even 4 years to reach adulthood, and the average lifespan of the dairy snake can reach more than 15 years.
The milk snake imported from Taiwan, China is also Nelson and Honduran milk snake and their mutant species, and many other subspecies are relatively rare, according to the development model of the milk snake in the United States, the milk snake Taiwan still has great potential for development.