Finding a snake in your backyard can be startling, but not all snakes are creatures to fear. Many species are non-venomous ...

Claim to fame: The red milk snake is one of Missouri’s most colorful snakes. It is nonvenomous, and the rodent portion of its diet is beneficial to humans. Species status: Red milk snakes are ...

Most often it turns out to be the eastern milk snake, but in his experience, all of the snake species native to the state have at some point been mistaken for a rattlesnake.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Of the six species of snakes found on Staten Island, only the eastern milk snake dispatches its prey by constriction. The other five native snakes use the simple grab-and ...

A snake expert later identified the unwanted guest as a female milk snake, a non-venomous species local to Massachusetts.