{"id":8313,"date":"2026-03-16T08:13:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=8313"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:14:22","slug":"smiths-blackheaded-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/arizona-snakes\/smiths-blackheaded-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Smiths Blackheaded Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Josh found this little Smith&#8217;s Blackheaded Snake while working on a Rattlesnake Fence near Tucson the other day. This isn&#8217;t a baby \u2013 they&#8217;re tiny animals, which eat even tinier ones (invertebrates). They&#8217;re entirely harmless, and the snake was just moved to suitable habitat out of the way so it wouldn&#8217;t get injured while the installation progressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"818\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2991-818x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2991-818x1024.jpg 818w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2991-426x533.jpg 426w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2991-768x961.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2991.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh found this little Smith&#8217;s Blackheaded Snake while working on a Rattlesnake Fence near Tucson the other day. This isn&#8217;t a baby \u2013 they&#8217;re tiny animals, which eat even tinier ones (invertebrates). They&#8217;re entirely harmless, and the snake was just moved to suitable habitat out of the way so it wouldn&#8217;t get injured while the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,120],"tags":[82,8],"class_list":["post-8313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arizona-snakes","category-snake-fence","tag-snake-fence","tag-snake-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8315,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313\/revisions\/8315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}