{"id":523456,"date":"2026-03-14T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/523456\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:32:09","slug":"columbus-city-councilor-jumps-in-to-help-removes-large-snake-nest-kcii-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/523456\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus City Councilor Jumps in to Help Removes Large Snake Nest | KCII Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n         <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/columbus-snakes.webp.webp\" class=\"alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"columbus-snakes\" wpb-att-id=\"399874\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In an effort to gain access to a couple of water meters, the City of Columbus had to remove a nest of 22 snakes in a maintenance pit, and one councilor jumped in to help.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, city councilman T.R. Wagner and Louisa Conservation Board member Lana Artz-McComb removed all 22 snakes from the pit. Artz-McComb said the large number of snakes was not a shock, \u201cI was not surprised at all because we are coming out of the winter. When snakes come together for the winter it is something called a hibernaculum where it\u2019s a place where they spend all winter long. They don\u2019t really care about competition or even what species is in the hibernaculum. Everyone is just looking for a safe place to spend the winter, so finding twenty-something snakes is not unknown at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Artz-McComb, the hibernaculum consisted of 21 fox snakes and one blue racer, none of which are venomous. The snakes were relocated to a safe area, away from the maintenance pit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an effort to gain access to a couple of water meters, the City of Columbus had to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-523456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523456","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=523456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}