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Endemic to New York and Pennsylvania, the Short-Headed Garter Snake reaches about 10 inches in length. It feeds on earthworms in the wild but adapts to eat amphibians and small fish in captivity.

but they also eat other small reptiles, birds, insects, and carrion. Like most snake species, garter snakes and copperheads ...

The giant garter snake is one of North America's largest native snakes, reaching up to 64 inches in length and endemic to California's Central Valley, where it originally inhabited natural wetlands.

DESCRIPTION: The giant garter snake reaches up 64 inches in length ... HABITAT: Giant garter snakes inhabit natural and managed wetlands, low gradient streams, sloughs, ponds, small lakes, rice fields ...