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Cemophora coccinea
Scarlet snakes are a small fossorial species. Often confused with scarlet kingsnakes and the highly toxic coral snake, C. coccinea is a harmless species that will rarely bite. Scarlet snakes are specialized eaters with a diet of reptile eggs, other snakes, small insects, lizards and frogs.
This species is fairly common in pine forest and sandhill areas.
These are odd little snakes, they'll buzz their tail like a lot of the other native non-venomous species do. They're very shy snakes that are very quick to get under cover.
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Congrats LD50, this great spotting was one of the stars in our snake quiz yesterday! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=...
You take excellent photos all your spottings are great please add more! :)
Stunning! wow, look at that red!
Nice!! Series::
Absolutely Gorgeous!! Great Spotting!
Awesome!
nope
Is this Venemous ?
Very pretty snake, nicely photographed.
Gorgeous find!
Very nice series!