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Maternal Incubation

The female loses interest after a few days. She might stay there if it's the coziest place, but I don't think it's because of the eggs. Then you essentially have an incubator inside the viv, and trying to keep it proper humidity can be an issue. If they aren't clumped, there's also the threat that she might turn the eggs crawling over them.
 
And once females aren't using the lay box for actual laying, they use it for the toilet.
 
Funny, I've been breeding corns for 5 years and never once did I think about/research whether or not corns are maternal like balls!

I guess in the wild they just slither off and hope the eggs make it?
 
You know what's really cool- rattlesnakes. The babies stay at the den with Mom for quite a long time. There is a website called Social Snakes which monitors them!
 
Elaphe and Pantherophis (Opheodrys, Coluber, Lampropeltis, all north american colubrids I've had experience with over the years) in the wild, that lay eggs,...lay and leave. Forever. If you've ever found shells or eggs in the wild...they are in very hidden and safe places. No room for mum to sit around in curlers, a robe, and slippers.

Interestingly, I have read anecdotally of Diadophis often exhibiting communal laying. That, to me, is rather fascinating. And probably a more complex behavior than at first glance.

Here is a google-search-link, https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=diadophis+communal+egg+laying&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8.
Check out "Coluber constrictor communal 'nesting' in Colorado", too.
In this last article, it mentions 5 or so genera exhibiting communal laying. Absolutely fascinating.
 
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