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Found this little dude by my garage door. I know everyone is gonna say gopher or bull snake but wrong pattern and color looks like a dang baby python

 

 

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Yep, desert night snake (Hypsiglena torquata). Cool find!

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My wifey spotted him hunting our gechos. I just wanted to make sure it wasnt someones pet before I let him go.

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Yep, desert night snake (Hypsiglena torquata). Cool find!

I looked and looked for the pink rattlesnake post and totally forgot you were the snake man.. from now on I will just txt ya pics.

 

Thx for the help. mom and sis always have little 6 to 9 inch snakes that look about like worms, what are they? 3rd street and cloud, desert hills.. and they love expansion joints

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Looks like a sonoran night snake. We had one for a pet, kids loved it until it got out of its cage. Never did end up finding it, wife not too happy.

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Yep, desert night snake (Hypsiglena torquata). Cool find!

I looked and looked for the pink rattlesnake post and totally forgot you were the snake man.. from now on I will just txt ya pics.

 

Thx for the help. mom and sis always have little 6 to 9 inch snakes that look about like worms, what are they? 3rd street and cloud, desert hills.. and they love expansion joints

 

 

If they look like worms, but have kind of a metallic sheen to them, they are blind snakes. The one species was recently split into two and they are now officially called "thread snakes". If that's what your mom and sister are seeing, its a western threadsnake (Leptotyphlops humilis). Cool find! IN all of my searching, I've yet to find one. Many years ago, a friend of mine was up late watching some sci-fi movie and went to the garage to get a coke and one of those was in there. He freaked out at first!

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Here are some images I took of a Blind Snake we found in our garden. This was under a low magnification microscope. In the 2nd pic you can see eyes on the head. The tail is next to the head.

 

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I am ALWAYS finding snakes. I work a lot of remote locations, and they seem to seek me out sometimes. Here are a few.

 

Black King snake (Pima County)

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Western Blind Snake

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Sidewinder

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One of the MANY Gopher (or Bull) snakes

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Everyday Western Diamondback

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Not a snake, but a cool opportunity to touch a wild Gila Monster

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He was a biggun. And really calm too.

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Pink Speckled Rattlesnake

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The biggest Gopher (or Bull) snake I have ever seen. Over 6' long and super friendly. I almost brought him home as a pet.

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Another Western Diamondback

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Another skinny Gila Monster, about 14" long or so.

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Another grumpy sidewinder

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Desert Nightsnake

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My wife freaked just looking at this photo...

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