On one of those unseasonably cool days this month, I ventured out to remove the cover off my large compost pile and discovered a surprise underneath the tarp. As I pulled back the edges to expose the ...

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 ...

I found a young garter snake basking in the sun along the trail to the swamp last week. The air was still cold but the snake had found a warm spot that must have felt just right. The garter snake ...

Yolo Basin Foundation invites members of the community to Flyway Nights on Thursday at 7 p.m. Eric Hansen will be discussing the life history, ecology, and conservation of the giant garter snake in ...

Thanks to a friend who's more observant than me, a few years back I discovered a new species of reptile in my own backyard. It was a plains garter snake, known by scientists as Thamnophis radix. I ...

A garter snake by another color can still be a garter snake. Usually garter snakes, black rat snakes and green snakes are pretty familiar snakes and most of us can recognize them. But when Kim Mack ...

Can you believe May is here already? Things just started blooming and, out of seemingly nowhere, along with the burst of spring comes our wildlife friends. However, if they are hanging around your ...

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DEAR JOAN: Can you tell me what kind of snake this is? I found it in my backyard and I assume it is nonvenomous. Venkat Chandrasekaran Pleasanton DEAR VENKAT: What you have there is a young garter ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Diets of the terrestrial garter snake (Thamnophis elegans) and the common garter snake (T. sirtalis) were studied at 22 sites in an area of ...