A tiny, unobtrusive snake that's found in gardens in coastal towns and feeds and ants and ant eggs.

This is South Africa's only introduced snake species - they were accidentally imported to port towns in bags of soils or pots of flowers (hence the name), and being parthenogenetic, they are all females and don't need males to reproduce. This specimen was a very interesting find for me, because instead of finding it near a port town, I found it under a rock in the middle of the Northern Cape desert.

Flowerpot snakes are completely harmless to humans.