Western Wormsnake (Carphophis vermis), a Special Concern species, prefers southerly exposed bluff prairies, and adjacent savannas and open woodlands, where they spend most of their time under partially imbedded rocks or underground. Wormsnakes move to more shaded microhabitats or burrow deeper underground when temperatures warm the soils near the surface or to seek better soil moisture during periods of dry weather. Wormsnakes are likely active from late-April to early-October, breed in May and lay eggs from mid-June through early-July. Eggs are deposited under rocks or in loose soils and hatch by early-September. It is currently only known from extreme western Grant County but could be more widespread in this county.
