If you take a dip in the James River in Richmond, you will be swimming with snakes. Enjoy them. Richmond’s swimming serpents are northern water snakes, and they are harmless. Some people fear ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WFXR) — Could you tell the difference between a venomous water moccasin or cottonmouth and a non-venomous water snake? The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources has provided ...

Richmond’s water snakes are harmless, not venomous ... “In my experience, any snake that is swimming in the water is instantly labeled a water moccasin,” said J.D. Kleopfer, ...