2. Black Rat Snake most widely distributed common rat snake
range from New England south through Georgia and west across the northern parts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and north through Oklahoma to southern Wisconsin.
There is also an isolated population in southern Canada and northern New York.
Rat snakes are primarily known as rodent eaters, however other food preferences do exist.
As juveniles, rat snakes eat small lizards, baby mice, and an occasional small frog.
Adult rat snakes have a diet mainly consisting of mice and rats, but also include chipmunks, moles, and other small rodents.
Adults also eat bird eggs and young.
Rat snakes kill their prey by constriction.

4. Bull frog
They are among the most wide-ranging of all North American amphibians
found in freshwater ponds, lakes, and marshes from Nova Scotia, Canada, throughout the continental United States, and as far south as Mexico and Cuba.
They have even found their way to Europe, South America, and Asia.
Nocturnal predators, they will ambush and eat just about anything they can fit in their ample mouths, including insects, mice, fish, birds, and snakes.

6. Common Snapping Turtle
range extends from southeastern Canada, southwest to the edge of the Rocky Mountains, as far east as Nova Scotia and Florida.
This species and the larger alligator snapping turtle are the only two species in this family found in North America.
prefer muddy lakes and ponds, as well as slow-moving rivers.
Common Snapping Turtle will eat just about anything, including: aquatic plants, fish, frogs and tadpoles, salamanders, insects, snails, leeches, worms, snakes, small mammals, and baby ducks and goslings.
They will also eat carrion
Snapping turtles have many predators, including: herons, hawks, crows, large fish, raccoons, snakes, and larger turtles.

8. Copperhead Snake
reside from southern New England to West Texas and northern Mexico.
particularly fond of ecotones, which are transition areas between two ecological communities.
They like rocky, wooded areas, mountains, thickets near streams, desert oases, canyons and other natural environments,
they like almost any habitat with both sunlight and cover.
eat mice and other small rodents, the snakes play a "pivotal" part in keeping the rodent population regulated.
They also enjoy eating "birds, lizards, small snakes, frogs, salamanders and certain large insects (especially cicadas and large caterpillars).

10. Coral Snake Ranging from North Carolina to Florida and Texas
brightest of North American coral snakes.
live in forested or jungle areas
spend most of their time burrowed underground or in leaf piles,
They like marshy and wooded areas, but also live in the scrubby sandhills of the Southeast United States.
eat lizards and other small, smoothed-scaled snakes.
Eastern species will eat frogs, and Western coral snakes are particularly fond of devouring blind or black-headed snakes, according to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

12. Corn Snake
found in the eastern United States from southern New Jersey south through Florida, west into Louisiana and parts of Kentucky.
However, corn snakes are most abundant in Florida and the southeastern U.S.
May be found in wooded groves, rocky hillsides, meadowlands, woodlots, barns, and abandoned buildings.
Young hatchlings tend to feed on lizards and tree frogs,
adults feed on larger prey, such as mice, rats, birds, and bats.
They are most commonly killed by humans who mistake them for copperheads.

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Adult

14. Cottonmouth (Water moccasin)
reside mainly in the southeastern United States. This includes very southern Virginia to Florida and east to eastern Texas.
are semi-aquatic and can be found near water and fields.
They inhabit brackish waters and are commonly found in swamps, streams, marshes, and drainage ditches in the southern lowlands of the United States.
also live at the edges of lakes, ponds, and slow-moving streams and waters.
eat both warm and cold-blooded prey, including other water snakes.
diet includes fish, frogs, salamander, lizards, small turtles, baby alligators, birds, small mammals, and other snakes.
Because they are such large and venomous snakes, they have only a couple of natural enemies.
These include king snakes, great blue herons, and largemouth bass.

16. Fence Lizard
Eastern fence lizards are found from New York south to northern Florida and as far west as Ohio and Arkansas.
found in a number of habitats including woodlands, grasslands and shrublands, but they usually stick to areas with trees.
They spend most of their days basking on fence posts, trees, stumps and rocks, and they crawl into rock crevices or go underground at night.
Prey includes a number of invertebrates such as beetles, ants, moths, grasshoppers, spiders, and stink bugs.
Snakes, birds, cats, and other reptiles are predators of fence lizards.

18. Garter Snake
The common garter snake occurs throughout North America, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and into southern Canada,
they live in woodlands, meadows and grassy knolls and like to be near water.
Because of their small size, garter snakes have many predators, including hawks, crows, bears, bullfrogs, snapping turtles, foxes, squirrels and raccoons.
feed mostly on fish, amphibians, and earthworms; other prey are occasionally taken.

20. Green Anole Lizard
live in the Southeastern United States from eastern Texas to southern Virginia.
require greenery, some shade and a moist environment.
They can be found in trees, shrubs, and on walls or fences..
eat small insects and spiders.
The major threats to these anoles are house cats and collecting for the food trade.

22. Gray Tree Frog
inhabit a wide range, and can be found in most of the eastern half of the United States, as far west as central Texas and Oklahoma.
They also range into Canada in the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba, with an isolated population in New Brunswick.
common in forested areas, as it is highly arboreal
It eats moths, tree crickets, ants, flies, grasshoppers and beetles.

24. Rattle Snake
These adaptable serpents can thrive in a variety of environments.
They are most abundant in the desert sands of the Southwest, but they also like grasslands, scrub brush and rocky hills.
They can be found in the swamplands of the Southeastern United States and in the meadows of the Northeast.
Despite their venom, rattlesnakes are no match for king snakes, which are fond of putting them on their dinner menus.
Rattlesnakes’ favorite foods are small rodents and lizards.

26. Red Eared Slider
native to the southern United States and northern Mexico,
but has become established in other places because of pet releases, and has become an invasive species in many areas, where it outcompetes native species.
Their native areas range from the southeast of Colorado to Virginia and Florida.
inhabit areas with a source of still, warm water, such as ponds, lakes, swamps, creeks, streams, or slow-flowing rivers.
omnivores and eat a variety of animal and aquatic plant materials.
They hunt for prey when the opportunity presents itself, capturing and eating fish, crayfish, tadpoles, snails, crickets, and aquatic insects.

28. Ring Neck Snake
found throughout the eastern two thirds of the United States from southern Canada to Florida, across the desert southwest and along most of the Pacific coast.
found throughout Georgia and South Carolina with the northern subspecies inhabiting the mountains and the southern subspecies being found in the Coastal Plain.
found in virtually any habitat but seem to prefer wooded areas.
Coastal plain and piedmont particularly common in moist areas including river floodplains, moist hardwood forests, and wetland edges.
These snakes eat a wide variety of animals including: earthworms, insects, slugs, small snakes, lizards, frogs, salamanders, ants, other arthropods, and newborn rodents.
have many predators, including: Raccoon, Virginia Opossum, Striped Skunk, Least Shrew, American Toad, hawks, owls, Bullfrog, and other snakes.

30. Rubber Boa
prefer grassland, meadows and chaparral to deciduous and conifer forests, to high alpine settings
can be found from British Columbia through California. Also Montana, Utah & Wyoming.
Small mammals and birds form its diet

32. Scarlet King Snake
found in the Southeastern U.S. from Virginia to Florida, west to southern Kentucky and eastern Louisiana.
are a secretive, nocturnal snake often found near bodies of water and in areas with loose, sandy soil and many hiding places.
The diet consists mainly of other small reptiles, including frogs, toads, lizards, and other small snakes.
Perhaps the largest portion of their prey comes in the form of the skink.

34. Woodhouse’s Toad
occur in the Intermountain West and Central states of North America into Northern Mexico and from the Atlantic Coast westward.
Predators are raccoons, skunks, snakes, herons and fish.
Woodhouse’s toads eat a variety of arthropods, such as sowbugs, scorpions, bees, insect larvae, ants, and spiders.