She makes this remark as a busload of Israelis arrives, and an 18-year-old with flowing brown hair agrees to lie down and let the snakes--all nonvenomous--make themselves at home .
When he decided to test the snakes' blood immediately after capture, Gebhardt got startling results: 37 out of 84 of the relatively small, nonvenomous and supposedly harmless .
Wild File: Florida Eastern indigo snake The Eastern indigo snake is the longest nonvenomous snake in North America. Adults usually grow 5 to 7 feet long, but can be more than 8 feet.
July 14, 2013 - The News-Press