Their is flame throughout Quebec,mainly in southern quebec.small population,isolated pockets.Most of flame are orange and in some spot never found red one .in those spot newborn garter are normaly colored and their first shade of orange will appear only at their 4-5 shed(next summer)

some spot i found both color,red morph are rare.
only the lateral strippe are red or orange ,not the vertebale strippe not even in the face(labial).
most specimen start out orangish and will turn blood-red as the mature.

Near montreal their is a couple of good spot for blood-red .The best spot i found last fall ,will be destroy a few years ...golf court almost 40 percent were orange red (new born) before theire fist shed ,turn red after 2 shed...
top rank apple red ! I think new lineage for captive breeding will be best !!new blood line expected this years!!