Getty Images While not loving snakes isn't that uncommon, most people don't fear being eaten by one. I will admit, it was ...

but they also eat other small reptiles, birds, insects, and carrion. Like most snake species, garter snakes and copperheads ...

The narrow-headed garter snake is a nonvenomous snake found in and near the cool, clear headwater streams of the U.S. Southwest. With its stripeless, grayish-colored body, it has been called “drab” in ...

Endemic to New York and Pennsylvania, the Short-Headed Garter Snake reaches about 10 inches in length. It feeds on earthworms in the wild but adapts to eat amphibians and small fish in captivity.

DESCRIPTION: The giant garter snake reaches up 64 inches in length ... low gradient streams, sloughs, ponds, small lakes, rice fields and associated waterways such as irrigation and drainage canals, ...