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No worriesssss: These Georgia snakes aren’t venomous
PHOTOS: The Peach State has its fair share of both venomous and non-venomous snakes, but odds are that you’ll come across a snake that can’t harm you instead of one that could. Here are a few to know.
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The UGA Savannah River Ecology Laboratory Herpetology Program (http://srelherp.uga.edu) offers everything you need to know to stay safe around snakes. Make sure you visit their website for everything you’d ever want to learn about the snakes in our state and region. Here, we turn to them once again, this time for information on non-venomous snakes, starting with the WORM SNAKE, which is usually found hiding under logs, rocks or leaves. PHOTOS: All from srelherp.uga.edu. TEXT SOURCE: All from srelherp.uga.edu. INFO BY: J.D. Willson.
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