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Tag: Nerodia fasciata pictiventris
Nerodia fasciata pictiventris, 15 March 2023
Nerodia fasciata pictiventris, the Florida banded watersnake; Volusia county, Florida (08 March 2023). Spring Break 2023 Less than a week before my 2023 Spring Break trip to South Florida, I came upon two Florida banded watersnakes in the Tiger Bay State Forest area just… Continue Reading “Nerodia fasciata pictiventris, 15 March 2023”
Nerodia fasciata pictiventris, 30 April 2020
Nerodia fasciata pictiventris, the Florida banded watersnake; Volusia county, Florida (30 April 2020). If you’ve ever been told that venomous cottonmouths swim at the surface of water while non-venomous watersnakes swim under the water, well, that’s not always the case. Pictured here is a… Continue Reading “Nerodia fasciata pictiventris, 30 April 2020”
Nerodia fasciata pictiventris, 09 September 2006
Nerodia fasciata pictiventris, the Florida banded watersnake; Alachua county, Florida (09 September 2006). This is a caramello (as I call it) variant of the non-venomous and entirely unaggressive Florida banded watersnake, a highly variable subspecies of the Banded watersnake. I tend to mostly see… Continue Reading “Nerodia fasciata pictiventris, 09 September 2006”
Nerodia fasciata pictiventris, 20 March 2015
Nerodia fasciata pictiventris, the Florida banded watersnake; Collier county, Florida (20 March 2015). Perhaps my favorite snake species in Florida, this is a fairly dark Florida banded watersnake, a native, non-venomous, and entirely unaggressive species. Florida banded watersnakes are extremely variable in coloring and… Continue Reading “Nerodia fasciata pictiventris, 20 March 2015”
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