Can anyone tell me if you know if the desert king snakes always have multiple different patterns or if they are usually all looking alike. A snake I have helped Identified looked similar to the one I saw a few days ago, but when it says its desert king snake the patterns on that snake are different …

They have variable patterns. Some look similar to each other, some dont.

Learning the variation inherent in a species comes with experience. Feltia jaculifera doesn’t have a lot of variation ( Species Feltia jaculifera - Dingy Cutworm Moth - Hodges#10670 - BugGuide.Net ), but looks like a number of other Feltia spp. Some are extremely variable - Moth Photographers Group –…

Noticing patterns in desert kingsnakes

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Noticing patterns in desert kingsnakes

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