blind snake

[snake-hunter]

last week my friend said he found a western blind snake in his neighbors garage and i said ya right those are extremely hard to find and in a garage come on. he knows nothing about snakes so i told him to go to this site to id the snake. and that was how he got the id.i said hang on ill be right over. and sure enough western blind snake this thing was the smallest snake i have ever seen in my short life. it was no longer than a regular worm but alot mor thinner.i was amazed. sorry no pic though cuz i thought it would just be a normal worm but i guess not!

[snake-hunter]

by the time i showed up it was dead. must have died from stress.:(

[reptilist]

Blindsnakes are hard to find if you are looking for them perhaps...But on warm monsoon nights, they move around the surface and are seen quite often.
Last year, my son was out playing in the desert and came home around dusk, he took off his shoes, was watching TV, and then I heard him holler "Snake!" Yep! It was a Western Blindsnake that had hitchiked in his shoes...He told me he felt something funny in his shoes earlier, and well, there you have it!
Another time, he and a friend were playing in the backyard and the friend found one so small I could scarcely believe anyone could see such a thing...it was only 3" long and as thick as a stick match!
A couple years ago, I saw one while road-cruising for snakes!
So, they aren't rare by a long shot and tend to show up when/where you aren't expecting.

Here is a picture of a neonate California Kingsnake feeding on a Western Blindsnake.

[HERPSKEEPER]

blindsnakes are cool.I have never seen an adult,but i have seen plenty of newborns.Out at my old house i used to see them alot at night under spot lights.

[Arandani]

:( Sorry to hear it died. I've never seen a blind snake aside from in pictures, I wish I could find one out and about. Hmm.... Nice pic. and just before lunch too.

[reptilist]

Natural history is neither for the squeamish or the overly civilized segments of humanity.

[Wlydcard]

Aye these are common enough if you have the right set up at your house of them to live in.

My old house was well planted,over kill actually the HOA said remove it,i wanted to kill but this 3/4 why i moved into my new one:p

It was enclosed on 3 sides so held the mositure well from when i watered it was lit up with those in-line sidewalk lights as well as my securtiy lights so i suppose humidity,water source and heat from the sidewalk lights was a cool place for them to hang out:hi

I used to love to look at em at night

[brandi]

Sounds like my first Blindsnake... Was up at the "Cactus Flats" bar (near Roosevelt Lake) playing horseshoes on a rather humid night last July, and one of the girls with us yells "eew, look at that skinny worm!" Sure enough, it was a blindsnake. Only about 3" long. We relocated him somewhere a bit safer than the horseshoe pits. ;)

[Arandani]

Is it just me, or are we always going to be butting heads reptilist? I hope you don't think that my comment was faint of heart, because I didn't have enough time to edit my post by adding 'lol' at the end of the sentence before my computer crashed on me. I hope one day we'll meet then you could get to know me better before you and JJFeldner start jumping on me. Then again it could've been that you picked up on a negetive tone in my message do to the smilie. And if that's the case I am sorry for posting this.