Bull Snake (Pituophis melanoleucus sayi)
The Bullsnake (Pituophis melanoleucus sayi) will rapidly vibrate its tail in dry vegetation to mimic or imitate ...
OTHER NAMES: Bull Snake, Common Pine Snake.
DESCRIPTION: A large (max. total length = 210.8 cm [83 in.]) snake with a moderately stout body.
ABBREVIATION : DRCO COMMON NAMES : indigo snake American corais snake blue bull snake blue gopher snake Couper's snake Georgia snake TAXONOMY : The currently accepted scientific name for the indigo snake is Drymarchon corais.
Gopher snakes are related to pine and bull snakes. Found throughout North America and Mexico, there are eight known subspecies, of which two may actually be separate species. In the wild, their diet consists of small mammals, birds and eggs.
The gopher snake is a close relative of the pine and bull snakes, and all are of great benefit to farmers because of the number of rodents they eat.
Though predators themselves, the young have been known to fall prey to several species of hawks as well as American Crows, Black-billed Magpies, and tree climbing bull snakes.
Most temperate snakes, including king snakes, milk snakes, bull snakes, rat snakes, water, and garter snakes need to hibernate.
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Other Names
Pinesnake, Bull Snake, Carpet Snake, Chicken Snake
Size
length 120cm - 250cm ...
Pacific Gopher Snake (a.k.a. Bull Snake)
scientific name
Pituophis melanoleucus cantenifer ...
Gopher Snake - P. catenifer found in the western states.
Pine Snake- P. melanoleucus found in the southeast and Gulf states.
Bull Snake, P. c. sayi found in the Midwest. ...
Some species, like milk snakes and bull snakes are constrictors. They squeeze their prey to suffocate it, then swallow it whole. Other species, like the common garter snake, simply snatch their prey quickly and swallow it alive.
Predators of wild turkey eggs and nestlings include raccoons, opossums, striped skunks, grey foxes, birds, woodchucks, rodents, spotted skunks, bobcats, rat snakes and bull snakes.
They are active from mid April to October (Blasus, 1997) and hibernate below the frost line often with other species of snakes such as Garter Snakes, Milk Snakes, Bull Snakes, Timber Rattlesnakes, Fox Snakes, and other Racers.
Among the reptiles lost were eight or ten rattlesnakes, one real bull snake (so said Dr. Hoy), several queer black and other snakes from south Illinois, a Kirtland snake, 2 Regina grahamii and a large lot of Storerias, Eutania, Nerodias, etc.
 See also: Bull, Snake, Reptile, Burro, Mice
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