![Midland Brown Snake The midland brown is a very mild mannered snake and usually attempts to escape first and foremost when encountered but may even play dead or flatten its body to appear larger. If picked up the snake may release a fowl smelling musk but will not bite you. These snakes are many times brought as gifts by cats and dogs to their unwary owners after a day of stalking in the flower bed. As all Georgia's non-venomous snakes, the midland brown is protected due to their assistance in pest control. Their diet consists of earthworms, slugs, snails insects and spiders. <br />
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They give birth to what appears to be live young [3-31] but technically they are not...they hatch inside the mother's body and the eggs are retained in the mother. DeKay,Georgia,Geotagged,Midland brown snake,Storeria dekayi,United States](https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/1780/22148_medium.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=lD2qUNKQ3ib2pUzhNu%2BcjR%2FIsdE%3D)
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Midland Brown Snake
The midland brown is a very mild mannered snake and usually attempts to escape first and foremost when encountered but may even play dead or flatten its body to appear larger. If picked up the snake may release a fowl smelling musk but will not bite you. These snakes are many times brought as gifts by cats and dogs to their unwary owners after a day of stalking in the flower bed. As all Georgia's non-venomous snakes, the midland brown is protected due to their assistance in pest control. Their diet consists of earthworms, slugs, snails insects and spiders.
They give birth to what appears to be live young [3-31] but technically they are not...they hatch inside the mother's body and the eggs are retained in the mother.
"Storeria dekayi", commonly known as De Kay's brown snake, De Kay's snake, and simply the brown snake, is a small non-venomous species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to North America and Central America.
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