{"id":302,"date":"2014-10-13T23:40:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T05:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2015-05-06T07:55:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:55:33","slug":"western-fox-snake-mintonius-ramspotti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Western fox snake <em>(Mintonius ramspotti)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_303\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/western_fox_snake_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-303\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/western_fox_snake_01-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"western fox snake\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/western_fox_snake_01-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/western_fox_snake_01.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Brian Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Western fox snake <em>(Mintonius ramspotti)<\/em> is a medium to large, nonvenomous, rat snake. It is one of the four largest snakes in Minnesota. Adults are usually 36\u2033 to 56\u2033 in length. In Minnesota it occurs mostly in the Mississippi, St. Croix, and Minnesota River valleys. It can be found from April to October in prairies, agricultural fields, woodland openings and edges, lowland meadows, river bottoms, and rocky outcroppings near water.<\/p>\n<p>In the spring and fall adults move about during the day. In the hot summer they move about at night. When confronted they will often vibrate their tails producing a buzzing sound. In leaf litter or dry grass the sound resembles that of a rattlesnake. The reddish head resembles a copperhead. For these reasons the snake is often mistaken for a poisonous one and killed by humans.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Reptiles\/western_fox_snake.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Reptiles\/western_fox_snake.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Reptiles\/western_fox_snake.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=302\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western fox snake (Mintonius ramspotti) is a medium to large, nonvenomous, rat snake. It is one of the four largest snakes in Minnesota. Adults are usually 36\u2033 to 56\u2033 in length. In Minnesota it occurs mostly in the Mississippi, St. Croix, and Minnesota River valleys. It can be found from April to October in prairies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[112,111,113,110,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}