{"id":95317,"date":"2025-08-19T22:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/95317\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T22:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:04:10","slug":"fwc-wants-to-know-if-you-see-a-rainbow-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/95317\/","title":{"rendered":"FWC wants to know if you see a \u2018Rainbow\u2019 snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/5BRVSM3NSJFM3E5HWF3Y65RHUM.jpg\"  width=\"591\" height=\"332\"\/>Rainbow snake FWC Photo credit: Pierson Hill and Kevin Enge <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BROWARD COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 There\u2019s a snake the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is calling \u201cthe pot of gold at the end of a rainbow,\u201d and they want you to let them know if you see one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/08\/19\/fwc-quiere-saber-si-ves-una-serpiente-arco-iris\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/08\/19\/fwc-quiere-saber-si-ves-una-serpiente-arco-iris\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the FWC, the harmless, non-venomous snakes live in freshwater and brackish habitats like streams, lakes, springs, and tidal marshes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They have earned the nickname \u201ceel moccasin\u201d because they specialize in eating eels.<a href=\"https:\/\/app.myfwc.com\/fwri\/raresnakes\/GetLatLong.aspx?id=rs\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/app.myfwc.com\/fwri\/raresnakes\/GetLatLong.aspx?id=rs\"> Rainbow snakes<\/a> spend most of their time out of sight, hiding in aquatic plants, under tree roots, or among rocks along the shoreline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FWC herpetologists are asking anyone who has seen them in the wild to submit their snake sightings by<a href=\"https:\/\/app.myfwc.com\/fwri\/raresnakes\/GetLatLong.aspx?id=rs\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/app.myfwc.com\/fwri\/raresnakes\/GetLatLong.aspx?id=rs\"> filling out this online form<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Veronica Crespo\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b7c0e4de-7406-4cfb-a8.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Veronica Crespo<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Veronica Crespo writes for Local10.com and also oversees the Espa\u00f1ol section of the website. Born and raised in Miami, she graduated from the University of Miami, where she studied broadcast journalism and Spanish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ExpandRainbow snake FWC Photo credit: Pierson Hill and Kevin Enge BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 There\u2019s a snake the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-95317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95317","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=95317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}