Copper Head Baby

Copperheads are one of the keys snakes that have a live birth the young snakes are born in the fall the year usually from August through October. The average litter that a copperhead has is between 3 to 9 baby snakes. A very notable characteristic that young copperheads have is a yellow tip on its tail. This is put there in nature so the copperhead can attract its own food source from a very young age. The yellow tip. Are in stealth is very desirable to Hansen crickets and other insects in which the baby copperhead feeds upon. This makes the food source actually come to the snake as opposed to the copperhead having to hunt the food source. After a couple years the yellowish tip on the copperhead’s tail begins to diminish and the color of the snake changes to a copper color as is the rest of the body. Copperheads have been known to live in the wild over 20 years.
The copperhead’s diet is primarily frogs and lizards along with mice and rats.
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