Copperhead snakes are slithering through SC just in time for the summer, and residents are reporting sightings.

These snakes have two species in South Carolina, the Carolina pygmy, and the dusky pygmy. Dusky pygmies often live near water and can be identified by their bluish-gray color or nearly black ...

South Carolina’s most populous venomous snake. Rattlesnakes, too. The venom copperheads and rattlesnakes use to kill their prey just doesn’t work on kingsnakes, which have shiny black skin and ...

Nearly 10,000 North Carolina residents were left in the dark on Monday, May 5, after a black snake came into contact with some equipment at a North Carolina power substation.

They are red, yellow and black. So you can watch out for those ... Wright runs a Facebook group called “South Carolina Snakes: Education and Discussion” where people can post pictures of ...

A Union, South Carolina, woman got a slithering shock on her way to work this week, and she has video to prove it."I was about halfway to work when I saw this black snake slithering back and forth ...

As summer nears, venomous copperheads in South Carolina will be out in full force, but more less-dangerous lookalikes will be too. Do you know their differences? Having such knowledge could help you ...

A South Carolina ... species, to black forest cobras, two neotropical rattlesnakes, a small rattlesnake (species unknown) and the taipan. Jeff Camper, a biologist and snake specialist at Francis ...

Spring marks the start of when it becomes common to see snakes in South Carolina, but even during the cold months, they aren’t just somewhere sleeping. Tyler Wright with the Black Creek Wildlife ...