As the weather gets warmer, snakes will begin to appear. In Louisiana, there are seven venomous snake species. What they are and how to identify them.

The vast majority of Texas’ native snake species are nonvenomous — such as this diamondback water snake (l-r) and gopher ...

Louisiana is home to 48 different species of snakes, but only seven of these species are venomous. Louisiana's venomous snakes include three different species of rattlesnake, two species of coral ...

To learn more about how to identify Illinois snakes or how to act safely around a snake if you see one, visit the Illinois DNR’s website.

But generally speaking, most of our state’s snakes are nonvenmous and not aggressive unless threatened. A fraction of those though, six to be exact, are venomous. Here’s how to identify them.