copperhead

Today you could send me out onto the course with a bag containing a pogo stick, a copperhead and a mackerel, and I wouldn’t notice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

The North American copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix, a type of pit viper.

From National Geographic ● Jul. 25, 2023

It wasn't long before she had her own run-ins with the slithering creatures—including a bite she received from a copperhead while doing yardwork.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022

An average copperhead victim gets between six and ten vials of antivenom, but treatments vary depending on the bite, Greene said.

From Washington Post ● May 31, 2022

I picked up the other shovel, and a copperhead snake crawled out from underneath it.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Found throughout the eastern and southern U.S., copperheads can easily survive in developed areas like suburban neighborhoods, which is one of the reason the species is responsible for the most venomous snake bites every year.

From National Geographic ● Jul. 25, 2023

Farris says he's been doing local relocations for free for a couple of years, mostly rattlesnakes and copperheads.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022

“But unfortunately, the biggest problem most of my colleagues and I see when it comes to copperheads is that they are minimized by physicians who just don’t know much about snakebites.”

From Washington Post ● May 31, 2022

Officials did not say what type of snake was thought to have bitten the animal, but copperheads and rattlesnakes have been found on the Outer Banks, The Charlotte Observer reported.

From Washington Times ● May 26, 2020

They pull back the chicken-wire lids on their hinges and reach into the boxes with hooked poles, pulling out two rattlesnakes and two copperheads.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner