Where do They Live?
The Pinewoods Snake is found from the Carolinas to Florida and west to southern Louisiana and Mississippi. They inhabits inewood flatlands and adjacent hardwood hammocks in Florida, and coastal marshes and islands in the Carolinas, and adopts a semi-fossorial existance, living under logs or bark or buried in the sandy soil. It's said to estivate in crayfish burrows during dry weather.
What do They Eat?
The Pinewoods snake's prey consists of small frogs, salamanders, and lizards.
How do you Identify them?
The Pinewoods snake is a small, smooth-scaled snake with a short tail that ends in a terminal spine, a head slightly broader than the neck, and moderately large eyes with round pupils. They are red-brown in color, paler below, with yellow or while lips and a red iris.
What is There Defence Mechanism?
The Pinewoods snake is rear-fanged and mildly venomous. They will attempt to flee, emit a foul-smelling hard to remove oder from glands at the base of the tail, emit a loud bellowing hiss, inhale deeply to make itself look bigger, rears up in a coil and deliver "bluff" strikes or bites, or shake it's tail to create a buzzing sound in dry leaves when threatened
