#Pine snake

[herpsandbirds]

Could you show us some pine snakes?

Pine Snakes:

Hey there. This is a great group of snakes. They are big active Colubrids. Here's a few different species/sub-species...

Northern Pine Snake (Pituophis m. melanoleucus), family Colubridae, New Jersey, USA

photograph by James Adams

Florida Pine Snake (Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus), family Colubridae, Florida, USA

The Florida Pine Snake is a subspecies of the Northern Pine Snake.

photograph by Kevin Enge/FWC

Mexican Pine Snake aka Mexican Bull Snake (Pituophis deppei), family Colubridae, endemic to Mexico

photograph by NS777

Louisiana Pine Snake (Pituophis ruthveni), family Colubridae, found in Louisiana and East TX, USA

ENDANGERED.

photographs by Patrick Briggs & Ft. Worth Zoo

[grollow]

Posting with permission from my friend Abby at Wallflower Herpetoculture (they’re on instagram under wallflowerherp).

Northern Mexican Pine Snake hatching

Pituophis deppei jani 

(Pretty sure this little booger is the one I picked out. <3)

[c0ffinfl0p]

[the-real-couchrat]

Quick doodle because I couldn’t get this out of my head

He’s a provider, in case you couldn’t tell.

[pinerbrand]

Pine snake

#Pine snake how to#

#Pine snake free#

#Pine snake how to#

These plans provide a roadmap for how to use a system of conservation practices to meet natural resource and production goals.įinancial assistance helps producers pay for the adoption of conservation systems that improve the health of the habitat and ecosystems. Then, staff works with the landowner to develop a strategy to improve habitat conditions while meeting the goals of the landowners. Each plan focuses on the current site conditions and habitat. The agency’s staff of experts and conservation partners work side-by-side with producers to develop a conservation plan.

#Pine snake free#

Technical assistance is free to producers. This assistance helps producers plan and implement a variety of conservation activities or practices that benefit an entire ecosystem. NRCS offers technical and financial assistance to help agricultural producers voluntarily improve habitat for this species. In creating this desirable habitat, many other wildlife species will benefit as well including the red cockaded woodpecker, Eastern wild turkey, Northern bobwhite quail and Henslow’s sparrow. The goal is to create favorable conditions for a diverse herbaceous understory in the pine stands. Primary conservation practices will include tree and shrub establishment, prescribed burning, thinning and herbicide treatments to reduce woody shrubs. With the help of NRCS, landowners will implement conservation practices that will restore longleaf pine trees and work to maintain or establish open, herbaceous dominated understory conditions in existing pine stands. Landowners in these two states will make improvements on 5,000 acres of working lands. Private landowners are part of the solution. To help reverse the decline and avoid federal listing of the LA pine snake, NRCS is working with private landowners in Louisiana and Texas to increase available habitat to support the snake’s recovery through land protection as well as restoration and enhancement of habitat. The LA pine snake is listed as a candidate species for listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Appropriate longleaf or shortleaf pines should be encouraged as the tree species of choice for restoration. One of the identified threats for the LA pine snake is the lack of early successional habitats within open forests of the western Gulf Coastal Plain, including a diverse and species rich herbaceous understory layer in pine stands.Ĭonservation practices that maintain or establish open, herbaceous-dominated vegetative understory conditions would aid against the identified threat. Some individuals believe that the LA pine snake has experienced years of population decline. Pocket gophers appear to be their primary food source although they will consume other small rodents, amphibians and eggs from ground nesting birds. Rarely seen in the wild, the LA pine snake spends much of its life underground in pocket gopher burrow systems. snake, the black, brown and russet colored snake grows as large as 5 feet long. Known for producing the largest eggs and hatchlings of any U.S. Considered to be one of the rarest snakes in North America, The Louisiana pine snake (Pituophis ruthveni) calls the lush Longleaf pine savannas of west Louisiana and east Texas home.

[longleague]

Pine snake

Pine snake free#

Pine snake free#

I generally will use a hook to take an animal out of the enclosure, and will use my free hand to grab them mid body once they begin to retreat ,they will let you know when they are done being handled. Northern pine snakes are more likely to follow through with their threatening behavior with an actual strike, however once out of their cage they seem to calm down, and will subside with frequent handling. With most Pituophis particularly bull snakes these displays are generally bluff, and mainly associated with cage defensiveness, more often than not these snakes will retreat when encountered and become dismissive allowing handling….this does not seem to be as common with northern pine snakes. In fact this genus is literally built for this display as their namesake Pituophis indicates, Pituophis roughly translates to mucus membrane, and refers to their overly developed epiglottis allowing this genus to be the loudest hissers of all the snakes in the world. These snakes will rear up, inflate, rattle, hiss, and strike. Pine snakes like all members of the genus Pituophis ( pine, bull, and gopher snakes) are known for their theatrical displays when threatened. In the wild you will find pine snakes inhabiting pine flatwoods, woodlands, prairies, and brushlands where they use their slightly pointed head to burrow under soil, leafs, and other vegetation.īehavior and Husbandry:Northern pine snakes, particularly those in the northwest region are beautiful animals, but if you ask any keeper (myself included) the main draw to them is their personality. These snakes are truly a sight to behold, and pictures do not tend to do it justice. This locale of the northern pine snake from my experience tends to be the most vivacious not only in appearance, but in size and attitude as well. The premiere representation of this species in my opinion can be found in New Jersey, specifically the Pine Barrens. As I stated previous, there is noticeable variance in appearance across these various locales. However the jewels of the species are found in southeastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, southern North Carolina, west through South Carolina, and to the northeast in Virginia, Delaware, and New Jersey. P.m.lodingi in southwestern Alabama to eastern Louisiana. mugitus in Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, and southern South Carolina. melanoleucus can be found throughout the United States as P.m. Their scales are somewhat keeled and earth toned, with brilliant hues of black white, gray, brown, and red present, there will be variance phenotypically within range and locality. Melanoleucus are most identifiable with their slightly pointed head augmented by an enlarged rostral scale that extends between the internasal scales, usually four prefrontal scales are visible. Simply stating their length can be a bit misleading as this animal is heavy bodied and makes their presence known, making six feet seem more like sixty. Description:Northern pine snakes are a powerfully built colubrid, routinely hitting the six foot mark, with certain specimens reaching seven, and even eight feet in length.

[fish-bird]

Stupid little thing based on the Jimmy Snakes doodle Alex Hirsch posted, except he isn’t cursed he’s a ghost/human hybrid who doesn’t realize he’s not fully dead yet.

Stan stopped baking because the underground baking scene was too competitive, everyone wanted to be #1. He quit after he had to chew his way out the trunk of a car and hasn’t baked in over thirty years to prevent his baking rivals from finding him. Now his bread is only pretty decent, no longer an experience.

For those who can’t read my handwriting cause it’s bad:

Jimmy Snakes: “Stan Pines? You know that fool? I can’t move on ‘til I meet him again. He used to be the best in the business before he ran off.”

Mabel: “What was he the best at? Bike decorating? Tattoo fortune telling?”

Dipper: “Uh, Mabel? Maybe we don’t interrogate the scary ghost, who my silver mirror doesn’t work on, how our shady grunkle pissed him off.”

Jimmy Snakes: “Pissed off? What? No, have you ever had his baked goods? HIs sourdough is why I can’t move on. He might smell funky, but by God, he can bake.”

[raayllum]

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[herpsandbirds]

Northern Pine Snake (Pituophis m. melanoleucus), family Colubridae, New Jersey, USA

photograph by Dave Fitzpatrick

[kelperine]

Bill Cipher Humanization 💛

I’ve been seeing a bunch of human designs for him that give me sexyman ptsd. I haven’t been able to find a design I super resonated with so I decided to try my hand at it.

I struggled to pick a time period for his design since he’s old as hell and I don’t feel like selling my soul for lore. I ended up going off of the 1930s due to the release of “We’ll meet again”. My inspo was a fancy pants business man who looked just slimey enough to sell you snake oil.

Ford wasn’t impressed 💔

[hubbabubbagumpop]

I got this funny idea that despite Jimmy Snakes gruff appearance he speak in a very well-mannered way, with a voice like Patrick Stewart

[arson-of-dreams]

i guess his name is johnny now

[ladyvendetta]

I guess I made it while middle of lunch time

Sorry if it was terrible tho 👀

Btw this is MGS AU of Fiddlestan, can tell Fiddleford really suited to be Otacon while Stanley was Solid Snake (if Stanford was Liquid Snake might be possible and Bill in that universe was just AI)

If ever GF x MGS had a universe imma call it Metal Gear Falls tho (pretty obvious, plus Dipper and Mabel are victims of war like Raiden did a.k.a Child Soldier, plus can tell Dipper and Mabel will be cyberized by Bill, who formed the Patriots)

(Tate McGucket will be Emma cuz Fidds and his wife divorce. Spoiler alert, Fidds gonna cry if Tate was being killed by Vamp/???)

Fiddleford again, making Metal Gears and Philanthropy with Stanley. Idk about Soos??? He will be Sunny.

[deuteragonist1]

Coriolanus: *walks by*

Billy Taupe: What an ass.

Sejanus, staring at Coriolanus' ass: I know right.

[dougdimmadodo]

Louisiana Pine Snake (Pituophis ruthveni)

Family: Colubrid Snake Family (Colubridae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Endangered

Among North America's rarest snakes, the Louisiana Pine Snake's small population size is the result of its highly specific habitat requirements and the resulting sensitivity to human-driven habitat changes that comes with them; members of this species feed primarily on Baird's Pocket Gophers (a specific species of burrowing rodent,) and almost always live in abandoned Baird's Pocket Gopher burrows (often after having eaten the burrows creator,) and as such in areas where Baird's Pocket Gophers are not present Lousiana Pine Snakes cannot survive. Native to western Lousiana and eastern Texas, members of this species do best in pine forests (particularly those dominated by a specific species of pine, Pinus palustris, forests of which are noted to generally support high levels of biodiversity as a result of the loose canopies they form which allow many smaller species of plants to coexist with them,) and spend most of their lives underground, rarely travelling far from their stolen burrows. They emerge from their burrows mainly during the mid-day to hunt (targeting rabbits, frogs and other rodents when Baird's Pocket Gophers are scarce,) but otherwise remain concealed underground in order to avoid predation and unusually high or low temperatures; during the winter, when the weather becomes colder and prey becomes scarcer, they travel deeper into a Baird's Pocket Gopher burrow and hibernate until the early spring.

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/29041-Pituophis-ruthveni

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