{"id":2636,"date":"2026-03-09T06:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:12:46","slug":"madrean-mountain-kingsnake-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/madrean-mountain-kingsnake-in-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrean Mountain Kingsnake in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A beautiful young <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/colubridae\/lampropeltis\/knoblochi\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"176\">Madrean Mountain Kingsnake<\/a> (<em>Lampropeltis knoblochi<\/em>) from the <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/cochise-county\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"191\">southeastern corner of Arizona<\/a>. These colorful snakes harmless, and often seen by hikers on stream-side mountain trails in the <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/sky-islands\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"267\">Sky Islands<\/a> region of the state.<\/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\/Lampropeltis-knoblochi-_4807150816-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lampropeltis-knoblochi-_4807150816-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lampropeltis-knoblochi-_4807150816-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lampropeltis-knoblochi-_4807150816-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lampropeltis-knoblochi-_4807150816-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lampropeltis-knoblochi-_4807150816-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful young Madrean Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis knoblochi) from the southeastern corner of Arizona. These colorful snakes harmless, and often seen by hikers on stream-side mountain trails in the Sky Islands region of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,176,169,135],"tags":[191,267,719],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colubridae","category-knoblochi","category-lampropeltis","category-snakes","tag-cochise-county","tag-sky-islands","tag-banded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","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=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2638,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/2638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}