{"id":2594,"date":"2026-02-20T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:34:10","slug":"southwestern-speckled-rattlesnake-in-a-drainage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/southwestern-speckled-rattlesnake-in-a-drainage\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake in a Drainage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/pyrrhus\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"433\">Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake<\/a> hanging out in a drainage, as it does about every morning, during the lethally <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/aestivation\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"204\">hot period of Arizona summer<\/a>. For much of the year, rattlesnakes are largely <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/nocturnal\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"324\">nocturnal<\/a>, encountered by hikers and homeowners only just after sunup and again after dark.<\/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\/Crotalus-pyrrhus_O4A8525-2-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus_O4A8525-2-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus_O4A8525-2-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus_O4A8525-2-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus_O4A8525-2-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus_O4A8525-2-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake hanging out in a drainage, as it does about every morning, during the lethally hot period of Arizona summer. For much of the year, rattlesnakes are largely nocturnal, encountered by hikers and homeowners only just after sunup and again after dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,145,135,139],"tags":[204,324,445],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rattlesnakes","category-pyrrhus","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-aestivation","tag-nocturnal","tag-thermoregulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","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=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}