Henry County Animal Care and Control wants you to know the difference btween this beneficial, non-venomous king snake and its venomous lookalike, the coral snake. “Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black, friend of Jack.” Learn about snakes at https://georgiawildlife.com/georgiasnakes (Photo courtesy J.D. Wilson/Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, UGA)
Henry County Animal Care and Control wants you to know the difference btween this beneficial, non-venomous king snake and its venomous lookalike, the coral snake. “Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black, friend of Jack.” Learn about snakes at https://georgiawildlife.com/georgiasnakes (Photo courtesy J.D. Wilson/Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, UGA)
McDONOUGH — The creeks are rising, the ground is saturated, and the snakes are showing themselves. But local experts say you should stop before you chop up a beneficial garden snake.
Recent media coverage of a Fulton County boy who was bitten by a copperhead at Lake Burton, as well as the recent heavy rains, may lead the less snake-savvy to think we’re being overrun.
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