Snakes do it, too. And 38 snake species in North Carolina, now’s the time of year when we are more likely to run into them. But generally speaking, most of our state’s snakes are nonvenmous ...

Outdoor Alabama lists six venomous snakes that inhabit the state: the copperhead, cottonmouth, timber rattlesnake, pygmy rattlesnake, eastern diamondback rattlesnake and eastern coral snake.

We may be more likely to see snakes this time of year, as the weather warms. Use this information to make encounters less scary.