{"id":100918,"date":"2025-08-22T03:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/100918\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T03:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:39:10","slug":"3-rainbow-snake-sightings-recorded-in-florida-so-far-wftv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/100918\/","title":{"rendered":"3 rainbow snake sightings recorded in Florida so far \u2013 WFTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">WAKULLA COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has confirmed sightings of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/wildlife-officials-urge-public-report-rainbow-snake-sightings\/5RCEYEPC2BBOVGIJYHC3AP44LA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/wildlife-officials-urge-public-report-rainbow-snake-sightings\/5RCEYEPC2BBOVGIJYHC3AP44LA\/\">rainbow snakes<\/a> in the Florida Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The FWC has been asking the public to submit photographs of the rare snakes to help track their locations. This initiative has resulted in dozens of reports, with three confirmed sightings in Wakulla County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">There have not been any recent sightings in Central Florida. The last sighting was in the Ocala National Forest in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The FWC is asking anyone who sees a rainbow snake to report it <a href=\"https:\/\/app.myfwc.com\/fwri\/raresnakes\/GetLatLong.aspx?id=rs&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/app.myfwc.com\/fwri\/raresnakes\/GetLatLong.aspx?id=rs&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=campaign\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The FWC says the snakes are harmless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755833950_88_APP DOWNLOAD LOCAL_1541693885678.jpg_13622062_ver1.0.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM WFTV CHANNEL 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAKULLA COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has confirmed sightings of rainbow snakes in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[62917,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-100918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-rainbow-snake","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}