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Hope you find this interesting.
I've seen plenty of queen snakes when I am out fishing rivers and streams for smallmouth bass in my beloved Kankakee River an hour SW of Chicago. Smallmouth and queen snakes are both predators of crayfish, however, I am told queen snakes feed almost exclusively on crawdads that have recently shed their exoskeleton. They are soft and squishy and pretty much defenseless. Worse yet for the crawdad, they give off an odor that drive fish...and snakes.. absolutly nuts. So they hide under rocks till their skeleton hardens up. Well, aparantly quensnakes are good at sniffing them out.
So anyway, I got lucky enough to see this one at a pond, by a nature center near my house. I don't think they are known to a be around ponds but whatever... here you go...
Queensnake Eating a Molted Crayfis by Mark Kasick, on Flickr
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