Snakes of Isle Royale

[u/KodiakSnake]

Caught at least 6 garters and one northern redbelly snake which i regretfully didn't take a picture of. The copper garter and the red garter were truly special

[u/CondorLady]

I worked on isle royale for 5 seasons and caught 400+ garters for genetic testing. They’ve got so many lovely colors!! There’s also ones that are fully black, some gold checkered, some with red and blue stripes, and the rarest was a black and blue garter. I only caught two of those! 

[u/ParryLimeade → u/CondorLady]

/subscribe tell me more about this genetics testing

[u/CondorLady → u/ParryLimeade]

We were looking to see if they were a distinct subspecies, but they weren’t. Results showed they were most closely related to garters in Ontario’s Thunder Bay region