Eastern Smooth Earth Snake (Virginia valeriae valeriae) is a tiny, inconspicuous, grayish-brown snake, generally rarely-encountered by humans. This snake is largely fossorial (active underground) or found beneath cover objects, and only likely to be observed above ground after heavy rains. Earth snakes feed primarily on earthworms, and are harmless to people (Tennant, 2003). This is the more widespread subspecies of V. valeriae, found across most of Maryland, except western Garrett Co., where it is replaced by V. valeriae pulchra, the enigmatic Mountain Earth Snake (Maryland DNR site).
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