Spring and summer are the perfect times to enjoy your backyard — and snakes agree. You might be attracting snakes to your yard without even knowing it. Garter snakes, the most common type of ...

It was a Sunday and a big storm was on the way. The morning was fairly calm, but clouds had moved in and there wasn’t much ...

Each spring as the sun begins to warm the land, the largest gathering of snakes in the world emerges from their underground lairs in Narcisse, Manitoba. They have one thing on their mind - mating.

Garter snakes, belonging to the genus Thamnophis, are nonvenomous snakes found in North America, known for their striking ...

Breeding resumes briefly during September. LIFE CYCLE: Giant garter snakes emerge from over-wintering sites in the spring, when they begin foraging for food. Mating occurs in the spring and again ...

In the spring, the snakes come up to the pits where ... When the snow melts in late April and early May, tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes slip out of their limestone dens near Narcisse ...

MIGRATION: This species is nonmigratory. BREEDING: Snakes breed in fall and early spring, and females store the sperm until ovulation in late March or early April. Like all garter snakes, the Mexican ...