![]() ![]() Adults in the wild apparently average from 38 to 225 g (1.3 to 7.9 oz) in North America. ![]() Depending on subspecies, they can be as small as 14" (36 cm) or as large as 72" (183 cm) long. There is a significant amount of variation among milk snakes in terms of size. Depending on subspecies, milk snakes enter hibernation from late October or November to mid-April. In some situations, milk snakes also migrate seasonally during the winter, they may move to higher/drier habitats for hibernation, and then moister habitats in time for the summer. However, they can also be found in swamps, prairie, farmland, rocky slopes, some semi-arid/ chaparral areas, and sand dunes/beaches. Habitat Īcross the wide range of this species, habitat varies typically, milk snakes prefer to live in forested regions or areas of open woodland. There are further subspecies found in nearly all of México, from the state of Sonora east to the Gulf coast of Tamaulipas and throughout the rest of south and central México all through Central America and into Colombia and Ecuador. Milk snakes can be found from the southeastern extreme of Ontario, Canada, from southeastern Maine and all the states of the Eastern Seaboard, south to Florida, Alabama, Mississippi in the midwest, from central Minnesota to Colorado, Nebraska, and the Dakotas they are found in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. Some authorities suggest that this species could be split into several separate species. The subspecies have strikingly different appearances, and many of them have their own common names. elapsoides), but is now recognized as a distinct species. Lampropeltis elapsoides, the scarlet kingsnake, was formerly classified as a 25th subspecies ( L. The milk snake or milksnake ( Lampropeltis triangulum), is a species of kingsnake 24 subspecies are currently recognized. ![]()
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