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Black Rat Snake
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Ray Bosmans introduces the black rat snake. • University of Maryland Extension, Home and Garden Information Center. http://extension.umd.edu/hgic • The University of Maryland Extension Home and Garden Information Center's mission is to develop and deliver science-based, sustainable gardening information and solutions through outreach education for better human and environmental health. • Send us your plant and pest questions. Our Certified Professional Horticulturists are ready to help! http://extension.umd.edu/learn/ask-ga... • Explore our extensive gardening content online. http://extension.umd.edu/hgic • • The largest snake you might run into throughout your garden in Maryland and the mid Atlantic region is the Eastern black rat snake. • • Black rat snakes, when they hatch are not black at all. They are a very nice sort of a light battleship gray color with dark blotches down in the back. You'll notice that like many other snakes, it is flicking his tongue in and out. This is a sensory way of just checking out his environment, just like a dog sniffs the air, it is tasting things and the black rat snake has a very, very keen sense of smell. And if it gets on a trail of a mouse or rat, it'll follow it until it finally locates it and sees it. And it's a constrictor. So it'll wrap around it and quickly subdue the animal that way and, and swallow it once the animal has died. The black rat snake is typically white on the underside, on the beginning part of the body and further down the body it gets to be sort of toward a slate gray color. You see a lot of these snakes on the highway and because they are so long and usually moving across the road so quickly, they unfortunately get hit a lot of cars. But if you see one on the road and you can safely go around it, I recommend you try to do that. Cause there's no need to kill an animal that's so beautiful and has been around for so long.
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