Western Blind Snake

The western blind snake is found in Southern California, the tip of southern Nevada, southern Arizona, the extreme southwestern tip of Utah, portions of southern New Mexico and Texas and into Mexico. It is also known as the western thread snake, or the subspecies southwestern thread snake (some experts don't recognize a supspecies). This particular snake was found by a friend in his garden in Redlands. It looks like a giant earthworm, and like an earthworm, spends most of its time tunneling underground, but it eats ants and termites.

Just barely visible is a small black eye. The eyes are dark spots under translucent plates and are non-functional.

They can be purplish, brown or pink. I found one on the road in Whitewater Canyon, but it had been run over by a car and killed.