Red-bellied snakes are carnivores, mainly feeding on soft-bodied prey, such as slugs, worms, or snails.

Learn about the food that red-bellied snakes like to eat, and then learn about the morphological characteristics of red-bellied snakes a bit. The red-bellied snake has an orange or dark red underside with gray stripes around the edges. The back of the red-bellied snake is gray, brown, or reddish-brown, and also has bright gray and black-gray stripes extending longitudinally between the blacks. Red-bellied snakes are smaller snakes. Generally, juvenile red-bellied snakes are between 2.8 and 4.3 inches long, and adult red-bellied snakes are about 8 to 10 inches long.