Obviously it’s not, but these groundsnakes get into houses a lot, and “baby rattlesnake” is what the people who call my snake removal service often tell me it is. The baby they describe is actually full-sized at a little over a foot long, and can get anywhere scorpions can. This one wasn’t found in a kitchen, but crossing a road in a mountainous area North of Phoenix.
Sonoran Groundsnake, Sonora semiannulata
Tags: arizona, groundsnake, Yavapai County
I’m jealous! I have never had any wild snake loose in any of my houses! A few escaped captives, maybe, but never an unexpected wild snake.
I try tO impress on people here in San Felipe to not kill these little ground snakes. The locals here kill these and the shovel nose, ( any thing with a colored band) they think they are coral snakes, which by the book are not found in Baja. GEO