While in town yesterday, we saw a wonderful snake on the road. It was an eastern hognose snake. At first I thought it was a rattlesnake because of its coloring and posture. When we turned around to get a second look though; it had its head flared out like a cobra. We were hooked lol. We once again turned around to come back and get another look (we couldn't stop for long in the street because its a pretty busy road). Sadly by this time it was crawling off into the grass. Of course we had to find out what it was so we Binged it from my phone. Turns out it was one of these very interesting hognose snakes.
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[/caption]Turns out they mimic both rattlesnake and cobra behavior. For more info and pictures on these great snakes check out bugsinthenews.com.
Blessings! ~ Nikki
