WANDERING GARTER SNAKE
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Characteristics:
* A dull brown to greenish body color
* Black bars on lips
* Brown head with yellow spots
* Yellow or orange middorsal stripe on each side of body on scale rows 2 and 3 (counting from the belly scales up)
* Keeled scales
* Nonvenomous
* Diet: fish, frogs and other aquatic vertebrates, insects, and earthworms
* Habitat: grassy areas near ponds and streams
* Distribution: Black Hills