Southwestern Blackhead Snake
Southwestern Blackhead Snake NPS Photo Tantilla hobartsmithi Body length: 5 1/2 - 15" Diet: Arthropods Although they do come to the surface sometimes at night, blackhead snakes are fossorial, meaning they spend much of their time underground. Little is known about fossorial snakes, for the obvious reason that it is difficult to find them, let alone study their habits. Like other small fossorial snakes, such as ground snakes and blind snakes, blackhead snakes feed on arthropods such as beetle larvae, caterpillars, centipedes, and millipedes. They most often lay a single elongated egg, about an inch long, in late spring to early summer. Though rarely seen, blackhead snakes apparently occur throughout Tonto National Monument. |
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