Spending time outdoors in the summer months sometimes means crossing paths with one of the area’s most common reptiles – the Eastern garter snake. Often, just the sight of a snake can add a little ...

One summer day I lifted the black plastic top of our composter and jumped back, startled — a large snake was curled up on top of the compost. The yellow stripe down the center of its dark back and two ...

I remember the first time I stepped over a snake. Mid-stride, the round rock below me moved. It wasn’t a rock, but a coiled-up rattler. Yikes! Colorado is full of snakes, as well as snake myths.

Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 261-268 (8 pages) Studies of snake demography usually involve the estimation of litter size and neonate size, but potential sources of ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL)- In our part of the country, two of the most prevalent venomous snakes we have to worry about are the timber rattlesnake and copperhead, according to Naturalist Rhonda Goins at ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Female red-sided garter snakes, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis, become unattractive to most males after mating in the field and in the ...

Colorado’s lakes are likely going to be crowded over July Fourth weekend, and some spots are more likely than others to have snakes joining the holiday revelers. World Atlas identified three lakes it ...