Lined Snake (Tropidoclonion lineatum), listed as a Special Concern in Wisconsin, is primarily found in open prairies and sparsely timbered areas featuring soft, moist soils. Lined snakes are semi-fossorial, spending a lot of time under rocks, leaf litter, logs or buried in the soil throughout the day. This nocturnal species can also be found above ground at night searching for earthworms, their preferred food. The lined snake breeds early in the fall. Females will then store sperm during hibernation throughout the winter. In late summer this ovoviviparous snake will give birth to an average of seven or eight young.
