Smooth Green Snake

(Opheodrys vernalis)

Areas that support a ground cover of thick green vegetation are the preferred habitats of green snakes. Fields, wet meadows, bogs, marsh edges and open woodlands provide the kind of concealment cover required by these small snakes. They are active during the day and feed on a variety of arthropods (crickets, grasshoppers, caterpillars, beetles, spiders, centipedes and millipedes...)