No - they feed on rodents - NOT crickets !
Baby black rat snakes primarily eat small prey such as insects, small rodents, birds, bird eggs, and sometimes amphibians. They are skilled hunters and use their keen sense of smell to locate their prey. As they grow, their diet will expand to include larger prey items.
Rat snakes are carnivores. They eat small animals and eggs, not plants.
No. I just tried it. The rat snake ignored it.
No. Rat snakes never grow large enough to eat something as big as a rabbit.
Not usually, the snakes are too small to take on a full grown rat, however they might take baby rats.
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Many snakes will consume rabbits, especially baby rabbits. Rat snakes, pine snakes are a couple. Probably the most common predator of rabbits is are the large rattlesnakes like the Diamondbacks.
Mice and rats.
Baby Black Rat Snakes can eat frozen/thawed pinkie mice. They can also eat large crickets and grass hoppers. But if you have found one in the wild and plan to keep it as a pet please don't. Wild snakes don't make good pets they can get stressed out from the change of habitat and by being handled by people. Corn snakes are another type of rat snake and make great pets you can buy them at pet stores and get them from breeders. If you have found a skinny baby black rat snake that's not in good shape but not injured then it would be fine to keep it for about 2 weeks and feed it frozen/thawed pinkies every 3 days. Only handle them as needed. If you found an injured one than take it to an exotic vet or emergency animal hospital.