Hawaiian Blind Snake

They re pretty skinny creatures and could be mistaken for earthworms save for their color and their dry scaly skin unlike the moist reddish skin of a worm. Well there is this one. The hawaiian blind snake or ramphotyphlops braminus.

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This small worm like snake was found while digging in the yard.

Hawaiian blind snake. This species is endemic to. Snakes are rare in hawaii but the introduced species ramphotyphlops braminus is by far the most common. It is a myth that these snakes are venomous and deadly. Brahminy blind snakes are parthenogetic can spawn young without males.

They say there is no snakes in hawaii. Here in thailand it is a pervasive myth. Brahminy blind snake non venomous burrowing snake native to southeast asia. Braminus is variously known as brahminy blind snake or brahminy blindsnake flowerpot snake common blind snake island blind snake teliya snake and hawaiian blind snake.

The other one is a brahminy aka hawaiian blind snake a harmless snake that found its way to the islands in potted plants. Sometime in the 1980 s the blind snake was introduced to the islands of hawaii in potting soil from plants probably from the philippines. And much like the plants and insects of the islands products of a place in which there are no natural predators the hawaiian blind snake is non venomous a feature that renders it radically different from its cousins around the world who like the western rattlesnake of california are fiercely toxic. Found mostly in africa and asia they look like black earthworms that have been on a diet.

I found this one in my backyard in pahoa hawaii. The moniker flowerpot snake derives from the snake s incidental introduction to various parts of the world through the plant trade. These small snakes with tiny eye spots eat small termites ants and other arthropods. As termites and ants are also introduced animals these snakes pose no great threat to ecosystems in hawaii.

Very common non venomous snakes which are in nearly every country across the world.