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.

But, since a snake’s number one reason for biting is to kill and eat prey, snakes only bite people in an act of self-defense. “They would be unlikely to mistake something 100 times their size ...

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.