As the weather gets warmer, snakes will begin to appear. In Louisiana, there are seven venomous snake species. What they are and how to identify them.

Different species of rat snakes can have four black stripes running down their backs, especially the yellow rat snake.

DESCRIPTION: The San Francisco garter snake is a slender, three-foot-long snake with an orange head, a greenish-yellow back bordered by red and black stripes, and a bright greenish-blue or turquoise ...

Louisiana's venomous snakes include three different species of rattlesnake, two species of coral snake, one copperhead ...

This species can also be identified by a dark stripe that runs through the eye and extends to the back of the head, and there may also be a faint orange ... snake species, the rhyme "red on yellow ...