The Mojave Rattlesnake’s (also known as Mohave Rattlesnake, Mojave Green, Mojave Diamond Rattlesnake, and Mojave Rattler) entire body is a cream or sandy color, sometimes pale green (depending upon its surroundings) with darker diamond-shaped markings bordered by lighter-colored scales and black bands around the tail.
Eyelash pit viper snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Eastern diamondback rattlesnake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Eastern diamondback rattlesnakeCrotalus adamanteus Description: Dark brown or black, outlined by a row of cream or yellowish scales. Ground color is olive to brown. Characteristics: The largest venomous snake in the United States. Large snakes can have fangs that measure 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in a straight line. This species has a sullen disposition, ready…
All about the Cottonmouth snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treat a Water Moccasin bite.
Also known as water moccasin, swamp moccasin or black moccasin. Cottonmouth snake colors are highly variable. Adults are uniformly olive brown or black with a distinctive white or yellowish-white mouth (which they display when threatened). The young and subadults are strongly crossbanded with dark brown, sometimes even copper colored.
Coral snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Bushmaster snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
American copperhead snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
How to identify and avoid poisonous snakes and lizards
Tick – the dangers of tick bites, how to avoid them, and how to treat
Ticks are in the same family as spiders and hence share some characteristics with them (e.g. like spiders, Ticks have eight legs). They are parasites living on the blood of other animals a practice which makes them vectors (carriers) of several diseases including Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.








