HDOA has identified the 2-foot-long reptile as a non-venomous gopher snake. Additional checks on the Christmas trees and the container found no other snakes. “Although Plant Quarantine ...

A gopher snake was discovered concealed among the trees on Saturday in Hilo. A news release from the Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture (HDOA) said the workers had unloaded about half of the Christmas ...

HILO, Hawai'i (Island News) -- Store workers found a live, two-foot gopher snake in a shipment of Christmas trees on Saturday, Nov. 16. According to the Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture ...