It’s almost baby copperhead season in Kansas. Copperhead snakes usually mate in the spring, which makes mid- to late summer the prime time to find these venomous snake babies in yards.

Kansas is home to more than 40 snake species that you could encounter in Kansas, but only a small portion of them are venomous. Most of the snakes that you will see in Kansas won’t hurt you.

According to the Great Plains Nature Center in Wichita, copperheads are born from August to October and there can be up to 14 snakes in a litter.

The pain was excruciating when a venomous snake bit Grady Kornelson in 2018 in south-central Kansas. “On a scale of one to 10, it was a nine,” he told the Hutchinson News. Kornelson received ...

Kansas is home to four native venomous snakes: the copperhead, massasauga rattlesnake, prairie rattlesnake and timber rattlesnake. All venomous snakes in Kansas are pit vipers, possessing heat ...

A Gardner, Kansas woman was getting gas when a snake slithered under the screen of a pump, video shows. ... Or maybe a baby snake got caught and the mother was never found, she said.

Missouri is home to 43 different types of snakes, with around 27 varieties found in the Kansas City area. Here’s what know if you see one next time you’re gardening or hiking.

Kansas is home to more than 40 snake species that you could encounter in Kansas, but only a small portion of them are venomous. Most of the snakes that you will see in Kansas won’t hurt you. If ...