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.
Snakes are an important part of the natural food web; they eat rodents, birds, frogs, insects, and on occasion other snakes. (In turn, a variety of other animals prey on snakes.) Besides their ecological value, snakes offer the careful wildlife viewer a chance to watch one of nature's most efficient predators.arger snakes add amphibians, small rodents, nestling birds and fish to their diet. Garter snakes can survive in suburbia and towns because of their generalist diet and ability to live birth (i.e., they do not require a safe place to lay their eggs).