Coloration is generally brownish, ranging from golden brown to reddish brown with a darker head and lighter venter. There is a dark stripe passing through the eye and the upper lip scales are yellowish, leading to one of its common names, the yellow-lipped snake. The Pine Woods Snake (Rhadinaea flavilata) is a secretive colubrid found in scattered locations across the Southeastern United States.
Ten Facts about Pine Woods Snake
- Pine Woods Snakes average between 10 and 13 inches at adult size.
- The Pine Woods Snake is known from scattered localities in coastal North Carolina and South Carolina, most of peninsular Florida and small portions of Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana.
- Uncommon, found in pinelands, hardwood hammocks, cypress strands, bayheads, and barrier islands.
- These snakes emit a foul-smelling musk when they are handled.
- Its prey, primarily small lizards, salamanders, frogs, snakes, and insects.
- It lays small clutches of eggs, and 5 inch (12.7 cm) long young hatch in the summer months.
- These snakes mate from May to August.
- Pine Woods Snakes have mildly toxic saliva that enables them to subdue their prey .
- There other name is Yellow-lipped Snake.
- Northern Water Snakes have many predators, including birds, raccoons, opossums, foxes, snapping turtles, and other snakes.
