BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — How much do you know about snakes in Louisiana? There are dozens of native species. Some people are terrified of them, a fear called ophidiophobia. But did you know ...

“As the name implies, hognose, the nose kind of looks like a pig face it turns up like a pig snout and what they use that ...

Hopefully, if you get started early enough, you can keep the most hated creature out of your attic, toilet or closet, as they look for someplace safe to lay their snake eggs inside.

Louisiana pinesnakes are one of roughly 30 protected endangered and threatened species that require longleaf pine forests, including red-cockaded woodpeckers and eastern indigo snakes. Pinesnakes need ...

Once abundant in central Louisiana and east Texas, the harmless burrowing snakes now exist in only six isolated populations because of destruction of the longleaf pine forests where they live. “If the ...

But wildlife natives like cypress trees and prairie plants, and cold-blooded gators and snakes, should be alright. “I’ve never seen snow like this in Louisiana, for sure,” said Doucet ...