Exploring Florida’s Fascinating Snakes: Scream, Run, or Ponder

**Exploring Florida’s Fascinating Snakes: Scream, Run, or Ponder**

Snakes may not seem as cute and cuddly as other local wildlife, which can make people nervous when they encounter one. But Florida’s snakes play important roles in our ecosystem as prey for other wildlife, control of rodent populations and diseases, and seed dispersal. Our program will include an educational presentation and interactive activities including examining snake skeletons and shed skins.

The educational portion of the session will focus on snake biology, basic identification, and types of habitat of Florida native snakes. If seeing a snake makes you squirm, we hope you will leave the session with a greater awareness of our local snake species and an appreciation for the important roles they play in our ecosystems.

**In the session you will learn about:**

· Diversity of Florida snakes

· Snake Habitats and Behavior

· Venomous vs. Non-venomous Snakes

· Coexisting with snakes

**Itinerary:**

0930 – 1000 Welcome, registration, and hand out raffle tickets

1000 – 1030 Educational presentation

1030 – 1100 Interactive experience with snake artifacts, snake identification activities, and hands on science. Meet the Ambassador snakes from Florida Wildlife Hospital – Sriracha (red rat snake) and Dijon (yellow rat snake)

1100 – 1115 Raffle prize drawings and resource sharing

We will have a limited stock of Snakes of Central Florida Quick Reference Guides (waterproof) offered for a 10% discounts ($8.00 cash).

Looking forward to a sssssSuper session.