With rodents so prevalent in the desert, snakes are valuable for ... local species is the elusive black and white striped California king snake. This is the only species that preys on rattlesnakes ...

May 15 through June 15 is peak rattlesnake season in the California desert and hikers and wanderers are urged to keep watch.

All nine venomous snakes in California are rattlesnakes. They all have a triangle head, vertical slits for eyes (like cat eyes), and a rattle at the end of their tail to warn predators (and humans).

CALIFORNIA, (KTXL) — Seeing a snake in the wild can be a heart-stopping ... More specifically they can be found in the high desert, low mountain slopes, sagebrush, mesquite, creosote, areas ...

the only native venomous snakes in the state. Rattlesnakes are widespread and found in diverse habitats throughout California, from the coast to the inland desert, according to the California ...

Spring marks the start of the high desert’s slow season ... And legally in California, I can’t become a nonprofit snake wrangler, or the laws are very difficult for me to work around.” ...

Snakes in the desert of Phelan, California, and Catalina Island release a hemotoxin that breaks down the walls of blood vessels and prevents the leaking blood from clotting. By contrast ...

The snakes even stray onto golf courses, according to the California Department of Fish ... including in the high desert, with different levels of toxicity. And while some are more deadly than ...