They are able to produce a pungent odour from the anal glands, vomit up their last meal or prod with the tail spine to produce an unpleasant prickling sensation. They cannot bite and have limited defensive capabilities. These snakes are non-venomous and harmless. Below the ground they use tunnels made by insects.īlind Snakes lay one to twenty round eggs each breeding season with the young looking after themselves.
Owls, feral cats, foxes and some snakes, especially the Bandy Bandy, eat Blind Snakes.īlind Snakes move in a side-to-side swimming motion when above the ground. This species of snake protects a large range, and. amoenus can be found east of the Mississippi, from southwest Massachusetts south to southern Alabama west to Louisiana and then north to Illinois. They rake ants and termites into their mouth with their top jaw and swallow their food whole. Carphophis amoenus, commonly known as the worm snake, is a species of nonvenomous colubrid endemic to the Eastern United States. The map below shows the distribution of the Worm Snake in Massachusetts based on the original intensive. They follow the ants' trails to the nest. To find their food Blind Snakes flick their tongue to taste and smell the trail of ants and termites. They also eat the eggs and larvae of ants and termites.
They are found wherever ants and termites (their main food supply) are plentiful. Blind Snakes live in south-eastern Australia.
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