ID this snake

[Unagi]

Can anyone tell me what kind of snake this is? Seen in a suburb of Chicago, but may be an escaped pet.

I've searched for half an hour and I can't really find anything like it.



Certainly isn't a garder.

Pretty certain it's not a breed of Gopher snake. Or Bull snake.
Nor does it really look like Hognose.

[Carpet_pissr]

Hard to tell from lo res photo, but is that head triangle shaped?

[Unagi]

Yeah, hard to say. Or diamond shaped.


I'm leaning toward a Corn Snake... but man, I've been looking at various species of various snakes - and really none of them have that light 'banded' thing going along with such clear dark spots.

The head looks a lot like a corn snake.

I honestly thought this would be simple - and it's not.

[dbt1949]

I killed one of those by accident thinking it was a copperhead. I was really pissed at myself when I found out it was a corn snake.

[hepcat]

That’s the elusive and dangerous Trouser Snake.

[Blackhawk]

Huh. Doesn't look like anything I'm finding for that area. You may be right on the 'pet' angle.

[Jeff V]

Looks like a fox snake:

[Isgrimnur]

[Unagi]

Looks like a fox snake:

Not remotely.

The head is all kinds of wrong, and then it also doesn't have any banded-ness at all.

[Unagi]

Yeah, I had looked at a number of the hognose - but really - it just didn't seem to have that pattern at all.

I'm leaning more Corn Snake.

[em2nought]

Maybe that unidentifiable snake escaped from a lab.

[dbt1949]

Hognose snakes around here look nothing like that. More like a small olive drab coloring.

[Isgrimnur]

Brittanica
Spots in stripes

[Isgrimnur]

Ball Python Breeder - What does an Eastern Hognose Snake look like?

[A nonny mouse]

I have to agree with isg. I was going to post before but work got in the way. That is a hognose snake. They vary widely in color but if you look at the head and the pattern there, that is strong clue.

[Isgrimnur]

[Daehawk]

Need a new pic. Head and eyes would help. Also where in the world is the snake located?

[dbt1949]

Obviously at least some are located around here.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=corn+snake&t= ... &ia=images

[hepcat]

Maybe that unidentifiable snake escaped from a lab.

Remember: if you get bitten by it and then get sick, you and your fellow patriots can cure yourselves by drinking bleach.

[Unagi]

Need a new pic. Head and eyes would help. Also where in the world is the snake located?

It could be an escaped pet snake, but the picture was from a suburb of Chicago... So, think Wisconsin/Michigan if you want, but the escaped pet angle can take it a lot of ways.

[Daehawk]

After long and careful study I will cautiously identify it as the eastern hog nosed snake.

[dbt1949]

How long are the hognose snakes in your neck of the woods?

[Daehawk]

I dont think Ive ever seen one here. Google tells me 2' - 3'

[Lassr]

a LENS snapshot on my phone says Hognose also as the #1 suggested identification.

[dbt1949]

I dont think Ive ever seen one here. Google tells me 2' - 3'

That's the size they are here too.

[Jeff V]

Need a new pic. Head and eyes would help. Also where in the world is the snake located?

It could be an escaped pet snake, but the picture was from a suburb of Chicago... So, think Wisconsin/Michigan if you want, but the escaped pet angle can take it a lot of ways.

Google Fox snake images. Some are pretty close -- and they are indigenous to the area.

[Unagi]

How about the Eastern Milksnake

http://www.herpnet.net/Iowa-Herpetology ... riangulum/



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/shrug --- nothing looks -just like it-, to me.

[Jeff V]

There's not a ton of snakes in the Chicago area. It's not a gardner or water snake. Corn snakes are similar, but their coloring is more on the bronze palate. Fox snakes have a variety of coloring and patterns similar to what you saw.

[Blackhawk]

And we don't know the ambient light color when it was taken. The colors - as we're seeing them - could be off. I've seen storms, for instance, that made everything an intense yellow-green.