Often white with strong black stripes or black with strong white ... Diet: Lizards, insects, mammals, eggs, small snakes, ...

They usually sport two yellow stripes down their dark bodies, making them easy to identify. Also known as a gold-ringed cat snake, this black and yellow ... subdue prey like small birds and ...

Individual snakes vary in color from brownish to olive, with a checkered pattern of black spots, a yellow stripe down the center of the back ... sloughs, ponds, small lakes, rice fields and associated ...

A nature photographer captured images of a striped snake molting in a rice paddy in Shiga Prefecture, a rare observation even among serpents in captivity. With the weather warming up, snakes have ...