The corn snake's diet consists of small rodents, lizards, frogs, small birds, fish, and bird eggs, while younger individuals feed primarily on insects.
The corn snake is endemic to the United States and is native to the eastern and southeastern United States. The range extends into southern New Jersey, Maryland, and Kentucky south of southeastern Louisiana, southern Mississippi, southern Alabama, and southern Florida. It is found in the United States, Mexico, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, and the Virgin Islands.
Inhabiting forests, swamps, and farmland, it especially favors cornfields, where mice, birds, and other prey are more prevalent, hence the name "corn snake. They live alone and are semi-arboreal, foraging at dusk and at night, basking in the sun in the early morning to regulate their body temperature, and hibernating from November to March each year. Suitable temperature: 21~32℃; relative humidity: 75~80%.
Expanded Information:
The Corn Snake mates and breeds from March to May each year, with females laying 3 to 40 eggs each time. The female snake lays 3~40 eggs each time, the incubation period is about 60~65 days, the eggs hatch in July~September, the sex of the baby snakes depends on the temperature like most reptiles (high males and low females), they are sexually mature at the age of 2~3 years old, and their lifespan is 12~15 years, with a maximum record of 23 years. Snake eggs eggshells are white and the size of a quail's egg, while baby snakes after breaking their shells are red and white.
The Corn Snake is not poisonous and is an ornamental pet snake, one of the main species on the reptile market. The vast majority of Corn Snakes that enter China are captive bred, and are mutated through selective breeding. Captive corn snakes feed on small mammals, mainly rodents or lizards. They should not be fed fish, eggs, etc. Mice are often used.
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