Common Rainbow Snake (Farancia erytrogramma erytrogramma)

Created: April 26th, 2012 - 11:46 PM
Last Modified: November 5th, 2012 - 01:24 PM Entered by: Billy Moore
Record 108186

Country: United States		State: Virginia	County: Virginia Beach City	Time: 2012-04-24 16:47:00
Qty: 1	Age: Adult	Sex: Male	Method: DOR	Habitat: Flooded, dense forest adjacent to creek
Body Temperature: -----		Air Temperature: 62.00F	Ground Temperature: -----	Humidity: -----
Sky Conditions: Few clouds		Moon Phase: -----	Elevation: -----	Barometric Pressure: -----

Notes

Very recent DOR on busy rd., still moving slightly. Definitely a heartbreaker.

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Comments

Posted by Billy Moore on Sep 07, 2013 at 09:27 PM

Jake, surprisingly it was still twitching. I believe it had been killed fairly recently and was just getting run over repeatedly over a short period of time until I was able to get to it. To put it in perspective, the road runs through nice habitat but is unfortunately so busy that any snake crossing in daylight hours has very little chance of making it across alive.

Posted by Jake Scott on Sep 07, 2013 at 07:01 PM

Dang, that sucks. Looks to have been dead a long time.

Posted by Brendan Murray on Apr 27, 2012 at 04:30 PM

ugh. but great record!