<P> Young milk snakes typically eat slugs, insects, crickets, and earthworms . Adult diet frequently includes lizards (especially skinks), and small mammals . They are also known to eat birds and their eggs, frogs, fish, and other snakes . </P> <P> Milk snakes are much more opportunistic eaters than the fox snake or corn snake . They have been known to consume a variety of animals including rodents, eggs, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates . Nevertheless, the diet of an adult milk snake still primarily consists of rodents . They are nocturnal eaters and are often found during the day in old barns and under wood . </P> <P> An early myth about milk snakes is that they suck cow udders to get the milk . The myth is entirely false, and is discredited by the fact that the milk snake does not have the physical capabilities to suck milk out of a cow . Milk snakes are, however, frequently found in and around barns, making use of their cool and dark environments, and for the easily accessed populations of rodents to feed on . This proximity to barns, and therefore cows, probably gave rise to the myth . </P> <P> Milk snakes are oviparous, laying an average of about 10 eggs per clutch, although that number may vary by region . The milk snake mates from early May to late June . In June and July, the female lays three to twenty - four eggs beneath logs, boards, rocks, and rotting vegetation . The eggs incubate for approximately two months, and hatch around August or September . Milk snakes typically live around 12 years . </P>

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