Here’s a Black-Tailed Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus) from a few ago. I found him after a long hike in the Superstition mountains, Northeast of Mesa, Arizona. He’d just finished swimming across a creek and was heading into the bushes at the base of a large tree when I found him. This is my favorite rattlesnake, and my first of the year.
Crotalus molossus
Black-Tailed Rattlesnake from the Superstition Mountains, Arizona
Blacktail Rattlesnake
Tags: Apache Junction, arizona, black-tailed rattlesnake, Crotalus molossus, Field Herping, Mesa, phoenix, Superstition Mountains
