It has also been taken under objects such as logs, rocks and among the roots of shrubs. This species prefers moist areas. In canyons, stony and sandy deserts, rocky slopes and boulder piles, and scrub. Little is known about reproduction. It is probably eaten by most avian and mammalian predators when encountered.
Nothing is available about diseases parasites or competitors.
Notes on a population of leaf-nosed snakes Phyllorhynchus decurtatus perkinsi. Brattstrom, B. H., and R. C. Schwenkmeyer. Notes on the natural history of the worm snake, Leptotyphlops humulis. Hahn, D. E. 1979. Amphibians and Reptiles 232.