A tan snake with repeating brown-black blotches moves across a gravel surface, heading for cover.

Friend, not foe: Western Fox Snake

Snakes have been maligned for literally thousands of years. If we’re talking about the venomous kinds, they deserve it. But of the 28 species of snake found in Iowa, only four are venomous—timber rattlesnakes, eastern massasauga, prairie rattlesnakes, and copperheads. The other day Bryan saw this fellow in the grass near the shop. It’s a […]

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