Pine Woods Snake

09.07.2006 - This is a Pine Woods Snake, (Radinaea flavilata). It is an uncommon snake. It lives throughout most of the Florida peninsula and spotty areas throughout the SE coast, but it's not very common. It's an orange/rust/pinkish colored snake that spends most of its time under debris, eating bugs and little lizards and stuff like that. It rarely grows to more than 14 inches, and this one was about 10 inches. The only reason I'm even bothering to write about it is because it was a new snake find for me. It looks similar to the SE Crown Snake or the Florida Brown Snake, both of which I've found, but this one definitely looked a little bit different, so I took the above poor-quality photo and then later researched exactly which species it was. I found it while doing a bat control job in Saint Petersburgh, Florida. So I simply photographed it and let it be.  I'm always excited to add a new snake to my list of discovered species, and glad that relatively rare snakes like this still manage to survive.  Good luck, little snake.

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