{"id":506858,"date":"2026-04-01T09:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506858\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:47:09","slug":"venomous-snakes-guidance-over-adders-on-the-isle-of-wight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506858\/","title":{"rendered":"Venomous snakes: Guidance over adders on the Isle of Wight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  A spokesperson for the body said Britain&#8217;s only venomous snake are back after months underground.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The National Trust reminded people adders are &#8216;shy&#8217; and &#8216;ask only to be left in peace.&#8217;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson said: &#8220;After months underground, Britain\u2019s only venomous snake is emerging to bask in the first warm days of spring and they really are a wonderful sight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Look for them on heathland, moorland and chalk downland, coiled quietly in the sunshine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Recognisable by their beautiful zigzag markings, they are shy creatures that ask only to be left in peace.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The trust said to give the reptiles space and keep dogs close when around adders, but to also appreciate the declining species as a sign of the new season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Photos of adders can be uploaded to the County Press Camera Club on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for the body said Britain&#8217;s only venomous snake are back after months underground. The National Trust&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-506858","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\/506858","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=506858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}