Western Fox Snake Elaphe vulpina

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Western Fox SnakeElaphe vulpina

• Peter Murrey

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What exactly is a Western Fox Snake?

• Between 91 and 137 cm long
• Have light brown to black spots
• Heads are brown to reddish
• Diurnal hunters for small rodents
• Females lay eggs in summer, hatch in fall. 6-29
  per clutch.

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Habitat

• Lives in prairie grasslands
• Usually found near water and borders of forests
• Will even be found in crop fields

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Why is it Endangered?

• Loss of prairie
• Wetland drainage
• Often mistaken for copperhead or rattlesnake
• Interesting to note that it is common in other
  states such as Wisconsin and Iowa

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Whats being done?

• Not very much theres actually plenty of them
  outside Missouri
• In MO, further destruction avoided by not
  interfering with wetlands and not removing unique
  features like overturned trees from many parts of
  landscape.

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Bibliography

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Snake
• http//www.dnr.state.mn.us/snapshots/snakes_turtle
  s/foxsnake.html
• http//mdc.mo.gov/documents/nathis/endangered/f_sn
  ake.pdf