Here's what you need to know before heading outdoors. New Jersey is home to 22 snakes, with 20 non-venomous snakes including the most common, the eastern garter snake, first seen in mid-March ...

New Jersey is home to 22 types of snakes, according to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Out of those 22 species, only two are venomous: the northern copperhead and the timber ...

New Jersey. "The best thing a resident can do is learn how to tell copperheads apart from more common nonvenomous snake species — such as water snakes, milk snakes and garter snakes — and ...

New Jersey is home to a rich diversity of snake species, and several of its ... with swimmers and boaters means human encounters are common. While mostly harmless, the lake once gained infamy ...

Because DeVito is the manager of science and stewardship at the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, the girls knew what they were looking at: two northern pine snakes, which are on New Jersey's ...

Nobody has ever died from a copperhead bite in New Jersey, the NJDEP says. These snakes will not chase you but, if threatened, they will defend themselves. A timber rattlesnake is shown during a ...

New Jersey. “The best thing a resident can do is learn how to tell copperheads apart from more common nonvenomous snake species — such as water snakes, milk snakes and garter snakes — and ...