It’s that point of yr….hotter climate and snakes are on the transfer.
It is probably not snakes alive however they’re on the transfer, particularly within the south, which has already seen hotter than regular temperatures this yr, the slithering reptiles aren’t essentially a foul factor.
“Not only are snakes important for our ecosystem, they’ve been really important, a lot of medical research, medicines for heart disease for blood pressure,” says Trey Reed with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, “And recently, they’ve been looking at Copperhead venom specifically as a treatment for some breast cancers.”
In Missouri, there are some 46 species of snakes…six of them are venomous.
They embody the copperhead, the cottonmouth, the western massasauga and three completely different sorts of rattlesnakes.