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We have quite a few kingsnakes here and they differ in coloring as much as the few kings found where you're at. Also, there are lots of milksnakes and they are kingsnakes too. You might have seen a scarlet king. They are red, black and white...the red is a broader band. Black is more like a trim.
We have the mountain kingsnake (protected under CITES), which is similar in color, but all the bands have a more even width and the bands are thin. The California king has two color variations. Thick even bands of black and white are in the high deserts. Thick even black and yellow bands are in areas more Medaterrainean like where I'm at (close to San Diego). SC does have the Eastern king, which is colored the same as the high desert California king, but the black bands on the Eastern are super thick with thin bands of white, rather than even width bands like the Cali king.
Kings are one of the most beautiful snakes next to corns and rat snakes (they can cross breed too...cross breeders named them jungle corns). They come in all sorts of natural colors...and a spectacular rainbow displays of captive bred specimens. From orange on black to ultra lilac on glowy white.
One distinct difference between eastern (as of location, not species) and western kings is that eastern kings get much larger. Our kings here may reach 4 feet (Cali kings), but most are 3 feet or less (the mountain kings and the milksnakes). There? 6 feet is of the norm.
Thanks for all the info. Didn't know all the differences. Now, when you refer to the different colors in that next to last paragraph do you mean the Kings or the other ones.
Yeah, our kingsnakes grow really long. I wonder if the reason we have fewer kings than where you are is because we have fewer rattlesnakes. At least I think we do. I am certainly no expert. Now, I gotta go search and try to figure out what that other King I saw years ago was. He was patterned just like the Eastern King, but that brilliant color.
We have quite a few kingsnakes here and they differ in coloring as much as the few kings found where you're at. Also, there are lots of milksnakes and they are kingsnakes too. You might have seen a scarlet king. They are red, black and white...the red is a broader band. Black is more like a trim.
We have the mountain kingsnake (protected under CITES), which is similar in color, but all the bands have a more even width and the bands are thin. The California king has two color variations. Thick even bands of black and white are in the high deserts. Thick even black and yellow bands are in areas more Medaterrainean like where I'm at (close to San Diego). SC does have the Eastern king, which is colored the same as the high desert California king, but the black bands on the Eastern are super thick with thin bands of white, rather than even width bands like the Cali king.
Kings are one of the most beautiful snakes next to corns and rat snakes (they can cross breed too...cross breeders named them jungle corns). They come in all sorts of natural colors...and a spectacular rainbow displays of captive bred specimens. From orange on black to ultra lilac on glowy white.
One distinct difference between eastern (as of location, not species) and western kings is that eastern kings get much larger. Our kings here may reach 4 feet (Cali kings), but most are 3 feet or less (the mountain kings and the milksnakes). There? 6 feet is of the norm.
Thanks for all the info. Didn't know all the differences. Now, when you refer to the different colors in that next to last paragraph do you mean the Kings or the other ones.
Yeah, our kingsnakes grow really long. I wonder if the reason we have fewer kings than where you are is because we have fewer rattlesnakes. At least I think we do. I am certainly no expert. Now, I gotta go search and try to figure out what that other King I saw years ago was. He was patterned just like the Eastern King, but that brilliant color.
