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Bug-eyed. And fang-less.

Unexpected motion.  A gardener was momentarily unsettled when, unexpectedly, there was motion in a rubble pile along Peterson Creek in central Winona County. The garter snake quietly slithered into the rocks. The gardener was sure the creature was six feet, maybe seyen, maybe eight. Who’s to say otherwise. But garter snakes generally are two to four feet. Garter snakes werelong thought to be non-venomous, but discoveries in the early 2000s discovered they produce a neurotoxic venom, but it’s too weak to injure humans. Also: They lack fags to deliver the venom. Image: Jackie Rislow