\n It was photographed by Daily Echo Hampshire Camera Club member Adrian Peter Moore, who took to Facebook to post his picture of “the first of the warm sunshine adder”.\n<\/p>\n
\n Adders typically hibernate from October until March.\n<\/p>\n
\n They have garnered a scary reputation in England for being our only\u00a0venomous indigenous snake \u2013 recognisable by its dark and very distinct zig-zag markings.\n<\/p>\n
\n According to the Hampshire Wildlife Trust, the adder is quite a small and stocky snake that prefers woodland, heathland and moorland habitats.\n<\/p>\n
\n The trust has also said the adder is the UK’s only venomous snake, but its venom is generally of little danger to humans.\n<\/p>\n
\n An adder bite can be painful and cause inflammation to the area of the bite, but it is really only dangerous to the very young, ill or old.\n<\/p>\n
\n The New Forest National Park Authority says that adders are common and widespread in the open areas of the New Forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was photographed by Daily Echo Hampshire Camera Club member Adrian Peter Moore, who took to Facebook to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-488303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}