Q&A for How to Find a Snake

Snakes are typically most active during the early morning hours and at dusk, especially on warm evenings. They're often encountered during a practice known as road cruising, where one drives along roads that traverse snake-populated areas and observes them crossing the roads in the evening. During the day, the best time to find snakes is on mild days with temperatures in the mid-70s, avoiding excessively hot conditions.

Usually in the summer, especially around July/August.

You can find them in logs or on rocks, basking in the sun, especially in the desert.

You can look up how to identify a venomous or non venomous snake, and you can try to identify the color patterns.

Go to a hospital near you, sea snakes are very venomous animals, so use a net.

Use a flashlight. You can find them under rocks and metal scraps if it's a warm night.

Look under rocks in hot temperatures. They can also be seen basking in the sun or a warm day.

You can find them near woods, or look for a place that has lots of logs, trees, and bushes

You often find them in your backyard or a wooded area. Look under rocks and logs, or go out in the early morning and look for them basking on rocks or metal.

They aren't the most docile snakes, so while you probably could keep one as a pet, I think there are better options available.

Garter snakes can be found in a wide variety of environments near water, in fields, and in forests. In the morning, you will usually find them on rocks, or in the sun in the afternoon. You can also find them underneath rocks, logs, and pieces of wood.

It would be dependent on what kind of environment exists your backyard. Try going in the early morning when the sun rises, and look for them basking on rocks or metal.

Not always. Sometimes a snake may shed during its travels.

In Texas.

The species is probably Atlanta GA. If it has solid yellow, it is definitely Atlanta GA.

Have a look online for local nature reserves that might be suitable. Get up early on a day with some sun, and look in potential basking spots. Adders are out and about now; if you wait until summer, your chances of seeing any are greatly reduced, as they don't bask for any length of time in warm weather.

If it's still gloomy and dark outside, there probably won't be any snakes. Remember, snakes like to sunbathe and do not like cold places.

There are tons of snakes in Kansas! Some of the venomous snakes include copperheads, cottonmouths, and timber rattlesnakes. Non-venomous snakes include kingsnakes, milk snakes, and earth snakes.

Eastern coral snakes are relatives of the cobra, mamba, and sea snake. They live in the wooded, sandy, and marshy areas of the southeastern United States, and spend most of their lives burrowed underground or in leaf piles.

That's going to depend entirely on where you live.

The garter snake lives in Nova Scotia. It can be found in long grass, under logs or rocks and in small tunnels.

It depends where you are located, as each region has different types of snakes.

Common snakes live in tall grass or near water. Try looking in these places. I would recommend using at least a pair of durable gloves, just in case the snake tries to bite.

There are many different species of snakes.The smallest grows about four inches long and the largest can grow to 33 feet.

Blind snakes tend to hang out under leaf litter, logs, planters, and ant hills, but they are a rare and difficult find in most places.

If you do not want to find snakes, winter would most likely be the best time of year since most snakes are hibernating.

There is a possibility that you could find a rat snake, a garter snake, a northern water snake, a ringneck snake, an eastern hognose snake, a northern black racer, an eastern/common ribbon snake, or an eastern milk snake which are harmless to humans. As for venomous snakes, you could find a timber rattlesnake, a northern copperhead and, very rarely you could find the Eastern massasauga rattlesnake.

Yes, snakes love lizards and leafy places to hide. They also love to eat mice, rats, and birds.

Look under logs, rocks, piles of leaves, and look near bodies of water. Make sure to leave any venomous snakes alone. Research venomous snakes in your area so you can identify them. It’s always a good idea to go with someone so just in case something happens, you have backup.

A snake can and will hide anywhere they will not be visible to predators.