A gopher snake was discovered concealed among the trees on Saturday in Hilo. A news release from the Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture (HDOA) said the workers had unloaded about half of the Christmas ...
Agriculture inspectors captured the 2-foot-long snake, which was identified as a non-venomous gopher snake, officials said. The inspectors then “checked every Christmas tree and the inside of ...
The HDOA's Plant Quarantine Branch swiftly contained the snake and identified it as a two-foot-long, non-venomous gopher snake. Gopher snakes, which can grow as large as seven feet, are indigenous ...
“That’s bad news for the tortoise and for hundreds of other southeastern species who rely on them to thrive, from the threatened indigo snake to the wild and weird gopher tortoise shell moth.” Gopher ...
which makes it the longest native snake in the United States. It lives in Florida, south Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, preferring mature longleaf-pine habitat, where it seeks out gopher tortoise ...
Workers of the undisclosed shop in Hilo, Hawaii, were about halfway through unloading the container Saturday morning when they found a 2-foot-long gopher snake. The team immediately closed the ...