MARTINEZ, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - With rising temperatures, you may start to see more snakes in the CSRA.

You may also start seeing more of them because they like things like wood and brush piles – just the kind of debris that’s still around in many places, months after Hurricane Helene.

Remember that only a few of the 47 species native to Georgia are venomous, and only one – the copperhead – usually thrives in more heavily populated areas. So that’s the one you’re most likely to cross paths with.

Helene debris spawns boom of disease-carrying mosquitoes

With the summer already underway, the rain and warmer temperatures can make the perfect combination for mosquito populations to skyrocket.

Venomous ones include the copperhead, pigmy rattlesnake, timber rattlesnake, cottonmouth, eastern diam

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