Spotting a snake in your garden can be surprising, but it’s usually no reason to panic. Many regions around the world are home to harmless, non-venomous snakes that prefer to avoid humans and instead ...

The great majority of snakes are generally non-venomous, but let’s see which of them are the most common non-poisonous snake species in the world. Non-poisonous snakes are found almost everywhere in ...

Guess which snake species you’re most likely to encounter in the Inland Northwest? Hint: It’s not the western rattlesnake. Not even close. Chances are, you called it a “garden snake” when you were a ...

The snakes, which average 17 to 20 inches long, once inhabited most of the midwest and northeast. According to the Status Assessment for the Eastern Massasauga published by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has challenged social media followers to spot a slithering snake lurking in the grass. The government department issued a challenge on its Facebook page to ...

Most people’s mental snake-ID kit in the yard comes down to a couple of half-remembered rules: “triangular head means... The ...

With Memorial Day now behind us and as we head deeper into the spring, you’ll find our fields and forests flourishing with new life as wild critters all across the countryside are raising their next ...

Grass snake, the next one on the list of most common non-poisonous snake species in the world is also known under the name water snake or ringed snake, because it dwells in the proximity of fresh ...