Snake

[mjarrels]

Just HOPE that the Guam brown tree snakes never migrate into the US... nasty snake that just reproduces.

mark

 

[BamaRob]

Rob, that might sound logical, but we have the opposite problem. We've had 2 years of drought, during which I hadn't seen a snake, except for 2 or 3 dried up dead ones no bigger than a pencil, and now we've been having an excessive amount of rain and the bigger snakes have shown up.

Then, logically, all the rain is flooding their den sites and they're moving to higher ground (and houses) looking for a place to stay dry, right?

Who knows???

Later,

BR

 

[Bird]

Then, logically, all the rain is flooding their den sites and they're moving to higher ground (and houses) looking for a place to stay dry, right?

Who knows???

Sounds good to me, Rob. Now my wife does NOT like snakes of any kind, especially since we have a chihuahua we let out in the back yard unattended, and next week we'll have our daughter's two maltese as well for about 10 days. I've heard that mothballs will run off the snakes. One of my brothers claims it seemed to have worked under his mobile home several years ago. So today, I bought a big box of mothballs, put some behind the concrete step at the back of the shop, some under the 8' x 12' garden tool storage shed, and some under the patio. I also spread granular insecticide on the whole yard, as I do every year. Hopefully, we've seen the last of the snakes.

 

[3RRL]

Bird,
Your observation is the same as mine out here in California, except we had a lot of rain last year and very few snakes, and this year it's dried up pretty fast and we've seen a lot of snakes and killed 2 diamondbacks near camp already.

Each time I leave my property I smooth my dirt roads. One of the reasons is we love to see animal tracks and can really see them well on the smooth soft dirt on the road/trails. We can also see "snake tracks" where they cross it or get on it. Some are big and wide and some are small. You can see the way a snake moves looking at the trails they leave. There is no mistaking a rattler's trail because they are the larger snakes we have and zig zag widely across the roads. Last time up we saw over 20 different snake tracks ... mostly rattlesnakes ... a lot more than we've ever seen in the past.

 

[Offy]

Mating season, at least in Florida.

 

[stumpfield]

Send me a couple of those king snakes to help take care of the rodents. I will trade you a few rattlers. I have similar observation as Rob probably because we are in the same general area. I didn't see any last year. This year, the drought bought the snake to areas near the river and any source of water.

 

[N80]

I don't think it is a matter of more/too many snakes where they don't belong. I think it is a problem of more/too many people where they don't belong.

 

[Toiyabe]

Send me a couple of those king snakes to help take care of the rodents. I will trade you a few rattlers.

Do you west slope guys not have any Gopher Snakes? I probably see 20 Gopher Snakes for each rattler. Mostly dead on the road, unfortunately. Snakes do seem to be more common this year around here as well.

 

[RobertN]

Send me a couple of those king snakes to help take care of the rodents. I will trade you a few rattlers. I have similar observation as Rob probably because we are in the same general area. I didn't see any last year. This year, the drought bought the snake to areas near the river and any source of water.

I was on a fire a couple years ago, where as we were running a hose line, the rattlers and everything else were zigzaggin out of the area. A little blast from the hoseline detoured them around us The fire must have been near a den; there was a bunch...

 

[hitekcountry]

Do you west slope guys not have any Gopher Snakes? I probably see 20 Gopher Snakes for each rattler. Mostly dead on the road, unfortunately. Snakes do seem to be more common this year around here as well.

Oh yea, I see more gopher snakes than anything, probably 3 or 4 times as many gopher snakes to king snakes. I’ve not seen any rattlers on my property, but they definitely are around in the area.