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Found a Desert Blind Snake (Rena humilis)

Started By Froggy , May 24 2020 8:51 PM

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#1 Offline Froggy - Posted May 24 2020 - 8:51 PM

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I found a Desert Blind Snake coming out of a Novomessor cockerelli nest! Here's some pictures:

 

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#2 Offline BugFinder - Posted May 24 2020 - 8:52 PM

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very cool.  What are you going to do with it?

 

My daughter found one of those about three years ago.  they are pretty neat.


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#3 Offline Froggy - Posted May 25 2020 - 6:01 AM

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very cool.  What are you going to do with it?

 

My daughter found one of those about three years ago.  they are pretty neat.

I just looked at it for a bit and released it where I found it


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#4 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted May 25 2020 - 6:05 AM

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it's a runaway shoelace


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#5 Offline ANTdrew - Posted May 25 2020 - 6:11 AM

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That’s cool. We have worm snakes out east here. I found several a few weeks ago, one in my yard.
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#6 Offline SleepyAsianAnter - Posted May 25 2020 - 7:29 AM

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I caught one of those in my backyard, but it was a Brahminy blindsnake, kinda invasive. Unfortunately it had the full capability to get out of a test tube set up, it just waited 3 days to do so. It's somewhere in my house at least.


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#7 Offline Antkid12 - Posted May 25 2020 - 8:08 AM

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I caught one of those in my backyard, but it was a Brahminy blindsnake, kinda invasive. Unfortunately it had the full capability to get out of a test tube set up, it just waited 3 days to do so. It's somewhere in my house at least.

I caught a Brahiminy too, It was in an ant colony so I moved it out, Then a bird thought it was a worm and decided to try to eat it.  :facepalm:


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Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#8 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted May 25 2020 - 8:50 AM

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I caught one of those in my backyard, but it was a Brahminy blindsnake, kinda invasive. Unfortunately it had the full capability to get out of a test tube set up, it just waited 3 days to do so. It's somewhere in my house at least.

I caught a Brahiminy too, It was in an ant colony so I moved it out, Then a bird thought it was a worm and decided to try to eat it.  :facepalm:

 

 

What happened with the bird and the snake? I mean given the size shouldn't they be edible by birds?


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#9 Offline SleepyAsianAnter - Posted May 25 2020 - 9:21 AM

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I caught one of those in my backyard, but it was a Brahminy blindsnake, kinda invasive. Unfortunately it had the full capability to get out of a test tube set up, it just waited 3 days to do so. It's somewhere in my house at least.

I caught a Brahiminy too, It was in an ant colony so I moved it out, Then a bird thought it was a worm and decided to try to eat it.  :facepalm:

 

 

What happened with the bird and the snake? I mean given the size shouldn't they be edible by birds?

 

They're tiny, they are perfectly edible by birds.


#10 Offline BugFinder - Posted May 25 2020 - 9:35 AM

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I caught one of those in my backyard, but it was a Brahminy blindsnake, kinda invasive. Unfortunately it had the full capability to get out of a test tube set up, it just waited 3 days to do so. It's somewhere in my house at least.

I caught a Brahiminy too, It was in an ant colony so I moved it out, Then a bird thought it was a worm and decided to try to eat it.  :facepalm:

 

 

do they eat ants?


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#11 Offline Froggy - Posted May 25 2020 - 9:44 AM

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do they eat ants?

I think they eat the ant eggs and larva of the nest they go in, I don't think the ants really mind them though, if they are able to get in


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#12 Offline gcsnelling - Posted May 25 2020 - 9:44 AM

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Generally eat brood.


#13 Offline BugFinder - Posted May 25 2020 - 11:33 AM

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do they eat ants?

I think they eat the ant eggs and larva of the nest they go in, I don't think the ants really mind them though, if they are able to get in

 

 

Very cool!  if I come across one I'll collect it.


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#14 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted May 25 2020 - 11:59 AM

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Do they live in RIFA territory?


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#15 Offline ponerinecat - Posted May 25 2020 - 7:03 PM

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es so cute


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