Brown Snake

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Brown Snake

• Storeria dekayi

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What does it look like?

• 9-13 long
• Brown, gray, tan, or reddish-brown with pale
  stripe down back with spots on both sides of
  stripe belly can be whitish, yellowish, or
  pinkish and black spots may be present at edges
  of belly
• Scales are keeled

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Where are they found?

• Virginia, and the Carolinas
• Empty lots, flat wood pine forests, hardwood
  forests
  
• Common near aquatic environments
• Found under trash, logs and rocks
• Can be found hibernating with garter snakes,
  red-bellied snakes, and smooth green snake

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What does it eat?

• Slugs
• Earthworms
• Snails
• Soft bodied grubs
• Beetles
• Small salamanders
• Whatever that is around the snakes living area

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How does it reproduce?

• Mating takes place in the spring and fall
• There are various courting movements that take
  place after a female releases a pheromone trail
  
• Gives birth to 3 to 31 young between June and
  September
  

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Are they threatened?

• Threats from exposure to pollution and
  destruction of habitat
  
• No known efforts to ensure viable populations for
  the future

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• Secretive snakes that live around people
• May flatten bodies when feeling threatened
• Controls slug damage in gardens

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Works Cited

• http//www.bio.davidson.edu/biology/herpcons/Herps
  _of_NC/snakes/Sto_dek.html
  
• http//animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/sto
  reria/s._dekayinarrative.html