DEEP is urging residents not to wrongfully kill non-venomous snakes. (WTNH) — Finding a snake in your yard may be a bit alarming, but not all snakes are dangerous — and don’t need to be killed.

The eastern milk snake, which measures two to three feet long, typically has heavy red or reddish-brown blotches over a gray base along the top, and a black-on-white checkerboard pattern on its belly.

Milk snakes become three to four feet long and are beautifully marked. They have gray upper parts with rusty-red, round spots. Their under parts are whitish with dark designs.

While city officials believed the snake, found along the Ten Mile River near Milk Street, was a venomous copperhead, the ...

The milk snake (a small king snake) is another that can be handled without danger. They typically eat slugs, insects, crickets, worms, lizards (especially skinks) and rodents.

It's one of our most beautiful snakes, with reddish or brownish blotches down its light-gray back. The black racer, reaching a length of 6 feet, is our second-longest snake and really lives up to ...

Gray rat snakes are among the most common snakes in Mississippi. Their unique body shape helps them climb almost anything.

Walking down my road on an early June afternoon several years ago, I spotted a snake attempting to cross into the underbrush. Covered in colorful splotches, it quickly slithered across the pavement ...

A rare two-headed albino Honduran milk snake was hatched a few days before Halloween in an incubation chamber by University of Central Florida biologist Daniel Parker. Now, just in time for ...