{"id":2155,"date":"2025-07-16T06:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2025-07-16T06:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:20:18","slug":"wandering-gartersnake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/wandering-gartersnake\/","title":{"rendered":"Wandering Gartersnake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Camping and fishing along any waterway along the rim in Arizona, it&#8217;s common to see gartersnakes cruising around the vegetation. There are several species of gartersnakes in Arizona, but this may be the most commonly encountered. Wandering <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/colubridae\/thamnophis\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"510\">Gartersnakes<\/a> are a subspecies of Western Terrestrial Gartersnake that inhabit a variety of habitat, though are most often spotted in shallow water going after tadpoles and small fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-elevans-vagrans-_7176-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-elevans-vagrans-_7176-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-elevans-vagrans-_7176-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-elevans-vagrans-_7176-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-elevans-vagrans-_7176-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-elevans-vagrans-_7176-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camping and fishing along any waterway along the rim in Arizona, it&#8217;s common to see gartersnakes cruising around the vegetation. There are several species of gartersnakes in Arizona, but this may be the most commonly encountered. Wandering Gartersnakes are a subspecies of Western Terrestrial Gartersnake that inhabit a variety of habitat, though are most often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,527,135,510,528],"tags":[529,530,531],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colubridae","category-elegans","category-snakes","category-thamnophis","category-vagrans","tag-gartersnake","tag-garter","tag-wandering-gartersnake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}