The 129 degree reading reached in Death Valley Sunday (National Weather Service via National Park Service) Death Valley now shares the record for hottest U.S. June temperature ever recorded with Volcano, Cali, which shot up to 129 on June 23, 1902. The 129-degree temperature was still five degrees shy of Death Valleyâs all-time record high of 134.
Plains garter snakes eat a wide variety of animal prey. The diet of plains garter snakes and common garter snakes is very similar, so they probably compete for prey where they are found in the same area. They eat frogs and toads, salamanders, fish, birds, small rodents, leeches, earthworms, and grasshoppers.
Plains garter snakes are long, striped garter snakes, usually from 40 to 70 cm long, but occasionally up to 109.5 cm. They have a dorsal and two lateral, yellow or orange stripes on a background scale color of dark brown to dark greenish.