{"id":2966,"date":"2026-08-25T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T20:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T20:26:11","slug":"speckled-racer-in-the-brush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/speckled-racer-in-the-brush\/","title":{"rendered":"Speckled Racer in the Brush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Speckled Racer cruising through the undergrowth in extreme southern Texas. These snakes just barely enter the United States at this point, and can be found throughout tropical Central America and northern South America.<\/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\/Drymobius-margaritiferus_8009-Enhanced-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drymobius-margaritiferus_8009-Enhanced-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drymobius-margaritiferus_8009-Enhanced-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drymobius-margaritiferus_8009-Enhanced-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drymobius-margaritiferus_8009-Enhanced-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drymobius-margaritiferus_8009-Enhanced-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior-Magee, J. S., &amp; McKerrow, A. (2018). Speckled Racer (Drymobius margaritiferus) rSPRAx_CONUS_2001v1 Habitat Map. U.S. Geological Survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Speckled Racer cruising through the undergrowth in extreme southern Texas. These snakes just barely enter the United States at this point, and can be found throughout tropical Central America and northern South America. Prior-Magee, J. S., &amp; McKerrow, A. (2018). Speckled Racer (Drymobius margaritiferus) rSPRAx_CONUS_2001v1 Habitat Map. U.S. Geological Survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,703,704,135],"tags":[705,801,188,292],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colubridae","category-drymobius","category-margaritiferus","category-snakes","tag-central-america","tag-south-america","tag-texas","tag-tropics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","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=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2968,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions\/2968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}