The giant garter snake is now California’s official state snake. Discover its unique traits and habitat challenges.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract I observed a Western Terrestrial Garter Snake (Thamnophis elegans) attacking a large (approximately 9-d-old) nestling Dark-eyed Junco (Junco ...

Most people don’t think about snakes in November, but some snakes are still slinking through the grasses or moving through our backyards in certain areas of Nebraska. One you may see is a nonvenomous ...

Garter snakes are among a gardener’s best friends. They will eat grasshoppers, beetles and small mammals – all pests. Montana has three species of garter snakes: common, terrestrial and plains. All ...