To keep snakes away, mow your lawn, trim shrubs and trees, and remove brush piles. Clean up spilled seeds from a bird feeder and invite birds of prey by installing a perch pole. As a last resort, ...

Forget about “Snakes on a Plane,” we’re more concerned with snakes in the yard. Even though snakes are nowhere near as prevalent as our irrational fears would have us think (assuming you don’t live ...

Summer is snake season, and keeping them out of your home and yard may seem fairly simple, but not for the snakes in Georgia. We have over 46 species of snakes in the state and most of them can climb.

Juvenile Black Rat snake. Courtesy of Talena Chavis. In more terrifying snake news for Georgia, it seems that some of the 46 species can climb, and this includes trees, fences, and sometimes even ...

Rat snakes and rough green snakes can climb trees, fences and walls, often to find food. Venomous copperheads rarely climb due to their heavy, thick bodies. Snakes climb more easily on textured ...

Snakes don’t have arms and legs, but that doesn’t mean they can’t climb. While not all of these slithering reptiles climb, the ones that do, typically do it well. The News & Observer previously spoke ...