{"id":2766,"date":"2026-05-06T05:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:49:21","slug":"checkered-gartersnake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/checkered-gartersnake\/","title":{"rendered":"Checkered Gartersnake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/colubridae\/thamnophis\/marcianus\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"759\">Checkered Gartersnakes<\/a> are one of several species of garters found in Arizona. These are often associated with agriculture and canals, and is one of the few snakes that thrive in the fields and irrigation channels in the southern Phoenix-metro valley. This one was found in the southeastern corner of the state, crossing a roadway between two fields on a hot night.<\/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-marcianus_7108-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-marcianus_7108-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-marcianus_7108-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-marcianus_7108-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-marcianus_7108-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-marcianus_7108-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Checkered Gartersnakes are one of several species of garters found in Arizona. These are often associated with agriculture and canals, and is one of the few snakes that thrive in the fields and irrigation channels in the southern Phoenix-metro valley. This one was found in the southeastern corner of the state, crossing a roadway between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,759,135,510],"tags":[760],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colubridae","category-marcianus","category-snakes","category-thamnophis","tag-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","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=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}