How do snakes eat in the winter?

Answer 1

Snakes spend the winter in a rock crevice, animal burrow, or deep hole under a root ball. It is necessary that this den be below frost level. Since there may not be many of these locations, many snakes oftentimes den together. Some garter snakes may number in the hundreds - or thousands - in a single hibernaculum, or winter den. Copperheads, black rat snakes and rattlesnakes commonly den together.

Answer 2

As lots of other snakes the night snake goes under rocks and sleeps there for the whole winter so it don't eat anything until summer but in the summer it eats lizards, frogs, eggs and sometimes smaller snakes Did you know that the snake can eat one 2 inch lizard and it will be enough for it for several weeks

Answer 3

No, while dormant or hibernating, snakes do not eat anything.

Answer 4

They don't, they hibernate(sleep) through it.

Answer 5

In winter in cold climes, snakes go into a stupor called hibernation. Their metabolism slows way down, and they do not eat.

Answer 6

Snakes hibernate in the winter.