Snakes across North Carolina brumate individually in holes ... and the kisses are darker than the background. (A local non-venomous snake, the northern watersnake, has the reverse pattern ...

according to a North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission article. There are two other non-venomous snakes that are often confused with coral snakes, and both species are found in Kentucky.

A North Carolina driver walked outside her office ... “A very slippery situation, indeed,” police wrote in a Facebook post. The snake was a non-venomous Burmese python, which can grow to ...