http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/photoimage/snake-pregnant-or-great-with-egg/ Photos and Front Porch Musing from Floyd County Virginia Mon, 20 May 2013 02:09:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/photoimage/snake-pregnant-or-great-with-egg/comment-page-1/#comment-27258 richard Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:46:23 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/?p=7391#comment-27258 Fred – Thank you for NOT showing (or perhaps even taking ) a picture of the Wolf Spider. . . PLEASE no pics of them EVER!!

]]> http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/photoimage/snake-pregnant-or-great-with-egg/comment-page-1/#comment-27239 fred Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:06:24 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/?p=7391#comment-27239 I watched it slowly crawl off the woodpile after our photoshoot. The lump was definitely in the distal half. My best guess was disease state, other possibilities as you suggest not being consistent with what I was seeing. Very odd!

]]> http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/photoimage/snake-pregnant-or-great-with-egg/comment-page-1/#comment-27238 Dog-geek Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:05:55 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/?p=7391#comment-27238 Hmm… that does not look normal to me. That is not what a gravid snake looks like, at any rate. It is hard to tell from the pic since I can’t see the head or tail, but are you sure about the “2/3 towards the tail” part? It looks more like the middle of the snake to me, but again, hard to tell from this pic. The bulge does not look to be in the right place to be from being egg-bound, nor does it look to be in the right place to be swollen hemipenes. If the bulge is more in the middle of the snake, it could be from a large food item, or it could be the end stages of gastric cryptosporidia, in which case probably the next time you see this snake it will be dead.

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