In bucket the fifth, there lurks a mysterious creature, that terrifies one AP Chemistry student, Bobby Rhodes. This creature is a serpent, a snake, to be exact, a garter snake. Garter snakes are non-poisonous snakes that are very common in New England and is the state reptile of Massachusetts. They do bite, but their main form of defense towards predators is the smell of their urine, which we learned about first hand while handling the snake we found.
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| The Serpent |
Once we captured the serpent we took a head to tail measurement. This proved a little more difficult than we had expected because a snake does not lay in a straight line, so we had to hold the snake by its head and tail to keep it straight, while not pulling too hard as to not hurt it.
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| Measuring The Garter Snake |
To this day, the snake we found lives under the fifth bucket of our pitfall traps and goes in and out of the bucket through the drainage hole in the bottom of the bucket.
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