Here is a list, with a description provided from the Fish and Wildlife website: Common garter snake. ”Next to the Northwestern garter snake, this species is the most frequently encountered snake.

A northwestern garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, at the Oregon Zoo. Garter snakes, like other snakes and lizards, have two penises called hemipenes. Photograph by Joel Sartore/National Geographic ...

The Western terrestrial garter snake spends a lot of time in water. YHelfman Getty Images/iStockphoto The Northwestern garter snake is the most frequently encountered garter snake and usually ...

Imagine a garden filled with slugs, toads, mice and grasshoppers. And if it doesn't take much imagination, consider adding a couple of small logs or mini-mountains of loosely piled rocks to the ...

More than 3,300 NorthWestern Energy customers in Aberdeen were without power for about an hour Wednesday. The culprit? A bird dropped a 3-foot-long garter snake into a substation, according to ...

There are more than 2,900 species of snakes, with 140 species known in the United States. One species commonly found in the U.S. is the Thamnophis sirtalis, or the common garter snake, also known ...

Three garter snake subspecies live in Washington: the common garter, northwestern and terrestrial. Not surprisingly, the one you’re most likely to run into is, well, the common garter snake ...

Here is a list, with a description provided from the Fish and Wildlife website: Common garter snake. ”Next to the Northwestern garter snake, this species is the most frequently encountered snake.