KAILUA-KONA A small juvenile snake was captured after it was seen slithering out of a newly arrived visitor s backpack Monday night at a Maui vacation rental in Pukalani.

Often, what we’re seeing in our yards is a brown snake, a black rat snake or a black racer snake -- all non-venomous. Here’s how to tell them all apart.

A juvenile Eastern garter snake stuck in a brown widow web in Douglas, Georgia. Julia Safer / University of Basel “For most people in the world, this would be their worst nightmare.